Ultra-Orthodox Jews on a private chartered jet cheered after the in-flight movie — the 2007 rom-com “Music And Lyrics” — was covered up with a blanket, the Daily Mail reported. The scene occurred apparently in the plane’s first class cabin. After the screen was covered, the men on the plane can be heard clapping and…
(JTA) — Three hate crimes targeted a Jewish family near Charlotte, North Carolina. In response, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has increased foot and bike patrols, alerted federal law enforcement and conducted “zone checks” around synagogues in the city, Police Major Gerald Smith said at a news conference Monday afternoon, the Charlotte Observer reported. A swastika…
President Trump told Howard Stern more than a decade ago that his elder children Donald Jr. and Ivanka were upset that younger half-sister Tiffany would get money from their father’s inheritance – agreeing with the dirty talk show host that the siblings were trying to “bump” Tiffany. “Do your older children get nervous every time…
A video broadcast by New York’s ABC 7 channel shows chickens in cages that have died waiting to be used for kapparot, the ultra-Orthodox practice of swinging a chicken around your head to transfer your sins to it. The broadcaster reporting the video noted that, although the word kapparot means “forgiveness” in Hebrew, “it is…
Israel’s military on Wednesday reduced by four months the 18-month jail term of an ex-soldier who killed an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, saying his service record warranted clemency though he showed no remorse in the case. In March 2015, infantry conscript Elor Azaria was caught on videotape shooting dead a Palestinian who was lying wounded after…
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the Yiddish word for pig to describe just what settlers can and cannot do when it comes to expanding settlements in the West Bank. “You can be a pig, but don’t be a khazer,” Netanyahu said, explaining that this is the phrase used by President Trump’s advisers when discussing…
(JTA) — A Long Island, New York bishop visited a local Holocaust memorial center in the wake of several anti-Semitic hate attacks in the area. Bishop John Barres, the head of the Diocese of Rockville Center since January, on Tuesday visited the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove, New York….
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — An evangelical Christian pastor from Uruguay fulfilled his promise to plant 1,000 trees in the Jewish state. One year ago, after planting a tree with the Keren Kayemet Leisrael organization while on a visit to Israel with a group of Latin American pastors, Jorge Marquez vowed to raise the money to…
The damage caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria and the curfew imposed in its aftermath has affected Jewish life during the High Holidays in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a rabbi there told The Washington Post. Rabbi Michael Feshbach of the St. Thomas Synagogue — the second-oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, and the oldest in…
Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international police organization’s general assembly in Beijing, Interpol said. “The State of Palestine and the Solomon Islands are now INTERPOL member countries,” an Interpol tweet read. The Israeli Foreign Ministry, which said earlier that Israel’s efforts…
(JTA) — New York philanthropists Jack and Shirley Silver have donated $20 million to the UJA-Federation of New York to improve Jewish day camp facilities. The legacy commitment gift announced on Monday is the largest given to the UJA during the donor’s lifetime, the agency said in a statement. The gift is directed to the…
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