In the season premiere of the PBS’ show “Finding Your Roots,” hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Larry David and Senator Bernie Sanders are told of their respective ancestries. David gained acclaim in 2015 for doing a “spot-on” impression of the senator, a performance made easier by the widely remarked-upon fact that David shares Sanders’…
KOBE, Japan (JTA) — Like many international smugglers, the one servicing the Jewish community of this port city 300 miles east of Tokyo has perfected his poker face to avoid customs inspections. He brings in kosher meat and, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, three of the four species — the plants that Jews…
An Indiana state judge threw out a lawsuit by the former wife of longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle, who accused the sandwich chain of continuing to use the now-imprisoned Fogle as its spokesman after learning about his sexual interest in children. Judge Matthew Kincaid of the Boone County Superior Court said in an order dated…
Like other ecommerce juggernauts such as Net-a-porter who create online magazine spreads as a way to sell their merchandise, Ivanka Trump HQ has sent out an email today announcing their “Fall Fashion Issue.” Being that most “Fall Fashion Issues” tend to come out in late August/Early September, it seems that Ms. Trump’s brand is a…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The Polish Institute of National Remembrance has distanced itself from one of its historians who wrote in an op-ed that the situation of the Jews “did not look very bad” after the Nazis entered Poland. The piece by Tomasz Panfil, the historian responsible for education at the Polish Institute of National…
(JTA) — A Brooklyn rabbi was left traumatized by an incident in which a Vermont state trooper ordered him at gunpoint to lie down after he failed to pull over his car, his son said. Rabbi Berl Fink did not pull over for more than 4 miles when the officer, Justin Thompson, flashed his blue…
A prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi is retiring from the Israeli religious school network he founded that broke new ground in the religious education of Jewish women. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is stepping down as chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone network, which he founded when he moved to Israel in 1983. Riskin, 77, will be replaced…
The owner of Chicago Jewish deli ignited controversy on Monday for posting a tweet in which he mocked the Las Vegas shooting victims for being white. “Soon as I heard it was country music, I felt relief. White people shooting white people isn’t terror … it’s community outreach. #LasVegas,” he wrote on his personal account…
The Hungarian government is taking up a notch its anti-George Soros harassment campaign, preparing documents that allege conspiracy-style that the Holocaust survivor and billionaire is planning to inundate Europe with Third World refugees. “The goal of the Soros plan is to diminish the importance of the language and culture of European countries in order to…
Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, rabbi and dean of the Yavneh Hebrew Academy of Los Angeles, called for a campaign that “challenges each of its community members to fill the next 59 days with 59 good deeds”. In a letter to school parents and members, Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn wrote: As we approach Sukkot and in the wake…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg clapped back at new colleague Neil Gorsuch in a biting riposte on Tuesday as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case before the court challenging partisan gerrymandering. “Maybe we can just for a second talk about the arcane matter of the Constitution,” Gorsuch, appointed by President Trump…
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