(JTA) — A New Jersey township has rescinded a proposed ordinance that would have prevented the construction of an eruv. The Mahwah Township Council voted Thursday night to withdraw a measure that would have prohibited the posting on utility poles of “other matter,” which would include the white PVC pipes used to demarcate the artificial…
An Israeli man appealed on Monday against a German court’s ruling upholding Kuwait Airways’ right to ban him from boarding a flight due to his citizenship, a legal decision that triggered sharp criticism from German officials and Jewish groups. The appeal argues that the ruling accepted a racist Kuwaiti law and allowed the airline to…
The United States was further isolated on Monday over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital when it blocked a United Nations Security Council call for the declaration to be withdrawn. The remaining 14 council members voted in favor of the Egyptian-drafted resolution, which did not specifically mention the United States or…
A fast-moving fire in Brooklyn that may have been started by a menorah killed three children and their mother, and injured 11 others, JTA reported. The father and two other children are in critical condition. The fire started early Monday morning on the first floor of a house in Sheepshead Bay before consuming the house’s…
The central organization of Conservative Judaism ended a contract with Jules Gutin, the longtime former leader of its youth movement, following an investigation of a sexual abuse claim against him, JNS.org reported. “Our investigation led us to sever the relationship with [Gutin] permanently,” Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, told…
President Trump spent hours in recent days following the latest developments in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections. That included watching the House Judiciary Committee, where Republicans grilled deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over what they saw as anti-Trump bias in the investigation. The president, according to the Washington Post was not…
The Manhattan District Attorney is investigating disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for possibly embezzling funding for movie shoots to use as hush money to cover up sexual assaults, the New York Post reported. For decades, Weinstein, with the help of his brother Bob Weinstein, paid money to women he had assaulted, harassed or bullied as…
(JTA) — Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were arrested Sunday night in connection with an on-base attack against a Druze soldier. The soldier, who said he was attacked and beaten by fellow soldiers on his base in northern Israel, was taken to the hospital with a broken nose, and cuts on his head and face….
(JTA) — A Hanukkah menorah at a synagogue in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev was doused with red liquid resembling blood and vandalized by unidentified perpetrators who drew a swastika on it. The incident happened Sunday at Podol synagogue in Kiev, according to Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. The several foot tall menorah…
(JTA) — A Miami-area village council passed an ordinance that helps police define and investigate anti-Semitic acts as hate crimes. The Bal Harbour Village Council unanimously passed the ordinance, the first of its kind for a municipality, the Miami Herald reported. The ordinance was passed by the five-member council on Dec. 13 and took effect…
The word “Holocaust” will be allowed in a new set of curriculum standards in South Carolina’s public schools, even though it the word was originally dropped, the AP reported. The original proposal, which had no reference to the Holocaust, was written by community stakeholders and teachers, and not by Department of Eduction officials. “Their intention…
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