High fashion is weird. Instead of subscribing to the belief that every body is beautiful and using celebrities of all sizes as walking billboards for their questionable art, high fashion designers adhere to the school of thought that says only two types of bodies are worthy of their clothes: size zero bodies and size two…
(JTA) — A juvenile court in northeastern France suspended the prison sentences of five teenagers who vandalized a Jewish cemetery and damaged a Holocaust memorial. The defendants, who were 15 to 17 in February 2015 when the vandalism occurred, were sentenced last week to eight to 18 months in prison for toppling and breaking some 300…
A popular white nationalist blog is vilifying Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and blaming “leftist Jews,” for sabotaging President Trump’s promised plans to stem immigration. “Let’s just be real here, Brothers, it’s pretty damned bad, an author going by the name Marcus Cicero wrote on the website Occidental Dissent, responding to news of Trump moving…
Keeping up with a tradition set by his predecessor, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah a-Sisi met Monday with Jewish leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting, according to two participants, was friendly and both sides found a common ground in their wish to curb the activity of Hamas…
(JTA) — A group that promotes an openly racist and anti-Semitic doctrine marched through Sweden’s second largest city ahead of its neo-Nazi march planned for Yom Kippur. Dozens of members of the Nordic Resistance Movement marched through Gothenburg on Sunday, reportedly using the event to build support for its Sept. 30 march, whose route will…
(JTA) — Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the vandalism of gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the capital city of Sofia. The vandalism occurred last week in the Jewish section of the Sofia Central Cemetery. It was first reported to the Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria, which posted photos of the damage on Facebook….
(JTA) — The family of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has announced a memorial concert to mark the first anniversary of his death. The concert, called “Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen,” will be held on Nov. 6 in Cohen’s hometown of Montreal, his family announced on it Monday. It will benefit the Canada…
Anti-Semitic flyers and stickers were found at the University of Houston last week, the latest in what is a broad campus outreach campaign mounted by white supremacist groups ahead of the new school year. The flyers were found on at the university’s main campus on Tuesday, the Algemeiner reported, and included phrases like, “Beware the…
Police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti found on the side of a diner in New Jersey this weekend, including spray painted swastikas. Some of the language scrawled on the side of the building include, “Kill Jews,” “Heil Hitler,” and “WPWW,” an acronym for “white power world wide,” the New Jersey Herald reported. One employee, Sharon Smith,…
(JTA) — In a move that underlined growing divisions among French Jews, several dozen attended a demonstration protesting communal leaders’ welcoming of a deeply conservative rabbi from Israel. Approximately 40 Jewish protesters, some of them affiliated with Liberal congregations, showed up at the rally last week outside the Buffault synagogue in Paris ahead of the…
Kenneth Nakdimen, who pled guilty to voter fraud in the small upstate New York village of Bloomingburg this year, received a six-month prison sentence on Friday. Nakdimen’s co-defendant, developer Shalom Lamm, is still awaiting sentencing. The two were involved in a controversial project to build homes for Hasidic Jews in the rural village. The Times…
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