Three men spray-painted a large pink swastika on the door of an Upper East Side synagogue early Wednesday morning. The vandals were recorded on security cameras as they spray-painted Sutton Place Synagogue, a congregation at 225 East 51 Street, DNAinfo reported. The video shows one of the men also painting a swastika on the door…
(JTA) — Researchers in Germany have identified another painting in the “Gurlitt Collection” as having been stolen by the Nazis. The work by 19th-century French painter Thomas Couture had belonged to the Jewish politician Georges Mandel, and was identified due to a tiny hole in the canvas. Restitution to his heirs is in the works….
Mark Halperin, veteran journalist and political analyst for MSNBC and Bloomberg TV is leaving MSNBC after being accused by five women of sexual harassment, CNN reported. MSNBC announced early Thursday that Halperin — who frequently appears on their program “Morning Joe” — was leaving the network. “During this period, I did pursue relationships with women…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — An Israeli-American talent manager re-married a Brazilian top model under a chuppah at Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue surrounded by Hollywood celebrities. Jerusalem-born Guy Oseary and his Brazilian non-Jewish wife Michelle Alves renewed their vows in front of a crowd of celebrities including Madonna, members of U2, Elon Musk, Chris…
(JTA) — Two brothers from the Appalachian Trail town of Damascus, Virginia were arrested after they were captured on video yelling anti-Semitic comments at a man wearing a Star of David. The incident occurred Monday outside of Hey Joe’s, a restaurant owned by the father of the suspects, Joseph Killian, 33, and Henry Killian II,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Germany’s transport minister opened an investigation into whether Kuwait Airways violated laws by denying passage to an Israeli passenger bound for Thailand. German media reported this week that the Federal Transport Ministry investigation, ordered by Alexander Dobrindt, is in addition to a lawsuit brought by the Israeli. “Our team will continue to…
A Rutgers University professor has published multiple anti-Semitic social media posts in recent months — including blaming the Armenian genocide on Jews and describing Judaism as “the most racist religion in the world.” Michael Chikindas, a microbiology professor at Rutgers’ department of food science, posted a flurry of anti-Jewish conspiracies on Facebook in the spring….
(JTA) — The chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, condemned the publication of an editorial cartoon in a student newspaper criticizing Alan Dershowitz’s pro-Israel stance with anti-Semitic imagery. The cartoon published a week ago in the Daily Californian depicts a grinning Dershowitz with his head poking through a cardboard cutout bearing an Israeli flag…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The case of Joseph Jesner v. Arab Bank is a bid by about 6,000 Israelis who have been harmed by Palestinian terrorism to get redress from Jordan’s Arab Bank, which delivered money to the groups carrying out the acts. Yet when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case on Oct….
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Straus, the Jewish Republican who is speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, is retiring, in part because of disunity in his own party. Straus, first elected to the House in 2005, said in a post Wednesday on Facebook that he was leaving the speaker’s seat and the House next year…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Trump is unlikely to pick economic adviser Gary Cohn as his nominee for Federal Reserve chairman because Cohn is playing a crucial role in the White House tax reform effort, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. “No decision has been made and no candidate has been ruled out but Gary’s…
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