The opioid epidemic is hitting the tight-knit community of Bukharian Jews in Queens, DNAInfo reported. This year the Bukharians have seen nine overdoses reported — over twice what the community suffered last year, according to a rabbi within the community. Most of the 60,000 Bukharian Jews that live in Queens came from the former Soviet…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish historian who said the country’s Nazi invasion was not so bad for Jews on Friday received a medal from the Polish Minister of National Education “for special merits for education.” Tomasz Panfil, who is responsible for education at the Institute of National Remembrance, earlier this month wrote an article in which…
A study combining data from over 300 institutions around the world has found 72 new genetic mutations that may lead to the development of breast cancer, CNN reported. Seven of the mutations found lead to a type of breast cancer that doesn’t respond to traditional hormonal therapies, like tamoxifen. The total known number of mutations…
In a sign of the growing rift between the Israeli government and Diaspora Jewry, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be appearing this year at the annual conference of the Jewish Federations of North America. Only once since being reelected prime minister in 2009 did Netanyahu not address this influential forum. Unforeseen developments forced him…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A large rock was dropped on the head of an Israeli boy while he played at a spring in the West Bank city of Hebron. The boy, 12, was knocked unconscious and fell into the water of Abraham’s Well spring, located in the city’s Jewish enclave, in the incident on Saturday which…
(JTA) — The governor of Maryland signed an executive order that prohibits state agencies from entering into contracts with companies that boycott Israel. Gov. Larry Hogan signed the order on Monday at a ceremony attended by state Jewish leaders. The order appears to be largely symbolic, since there are not any current state contractors who…
(JTA) — The synagogue of the city of Malmo in southern Sweden had one of its windows shattered when unidentified vandals hurled stones at it. The incident occurred earlier this month but was reported in Swedish media Tuesday, after police arrived at the building on Monday night because of a separate incident, which turned out to be a…
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee in Alabama’s Senate race, has long been passionate about his opposition to same-sex marriage — so much so that he used one of the most famous poems from Nazi Germany to claim that those who share his views were being persecuted. “We’re going through something in our country that other…
Ohio state treasurer Josh Mandel has criticized Sen. Sherrod Brown, his opponent in next year’s Senate race, for calling former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon a “white supremacist.” In an exclusive statement to Breitbart, the conservative news website run by Bannon, Mandel said that such claims were “desperate, false and beneath the dignity of…
(JTA) — A former guard at the Majdanek Nazi death camp has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder. The Frankfurt resident, 96, whose name has not been released due to the country’s privacy laws, was charged by the city prosecutor on Friday for being an accessory to murder during his service…
(JTA) — The Pearson education publishing company has apologized for a section of one of its nursing textbooks that claims Jews are often “[v]ocal and demanding of assistance” during medical treatment. The page from “Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning” drew widespread ire on social media for its descriptions of how “Jews,” “Arabs/Muslims,” “Asians,” “Blacks,”…
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