A week after Missourians were shocked to learn their governor had an extramarital affair and allegedly tried to blackmail the woman involved, Eric Greitens is speaking out and responding to calls for him to step down. “I assure you that this personal mistake will not deter us from the mission we were sent here to…
A makeshift memorial to Blaze Bernstein created out of rocks and pebbles has continued to grow as the family of the slain college student called on people to make something positive out of his murder. Collections of small rocks bearing Bernstein’s name and likeness sit alongside candles in Borrega Park near the spot where the…
(JTA) — Mathilde Krim, a prominent AIDS researcher who fought the stigma surrounding the disease, has died. Krim passed away on Monday at the age of 91, people close to her wrote on Facebook. The researcher founded the AIDS Medical Foundation in 1983, at a time when widespread homophobia hampered people from speaking out about AIDS,…
A new high-speed train nearing completion in Jerusalem is being celebrated as a sign that the Messiah is on the way. Breaking Israel News, a website that caters to prophetically-minded readers, declared that “many esoteric hints indicate the road to the Third Temple will be paved with train tracks.” There is, the website writes, a…
A Jewish leader in Austria said community officials would not attend the nation’s official Holocaust commemoration ceremony if lawmakers from the far-right Freedom Party are present. “If there will be ministers there for the Freedom Party, and I’m sure there will be, I will not be able to shake their hands, so the Jewish community…
Shortly after assuming his job as senior adviser to the president, Jared Kushner received an unusual warning from intelligence officials. His close friend, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Kushner was told, may be serving Chinese interests. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, reported that Deng Murdoch, a successful Chinese businesswoman and ex-wife of media mogul…
An Ohio auction house is selling Adolf Hitler’s desk in an auction late this month. The high bid for the desk, which Hitler received in 1929 and used at his residence in Munich, is currently just $10,000. The auction house, called Milestone Auctions, projects a final sale price of over $100,000. Hitler murdered some 12…
(JTA) — A Jewish woman has qualified for the final round of the Miss Germany 2018 contest. Tamar Morali, 21, won the title of Miss Internet over the weekend, which qualifies her to compete against about 20 other women who have won in other categories to become Miss Germany. She was chosen among the 10 contestants…
In a rare rebuke of Israeli government policy, two major Jewish American organizations are publicly expressing their concern over a plan to deport thousands of African asylum seekers. ״As American Jews, one of our greatest concerns is the well-being and security of Israel; we want to see it prosper and overcome all of the challenges…
The official lingerie suppliers to the British royal family have lost their exclusive, 57-year-long royal warrant after its owner wrote a tell-all book about her fittings for Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana, among others. June Kenton, who calls herself “the UK’s leading boobologist” and has run the Rigby & Peller lingerie company since 1982,…
(JTA) — A Jewish burial society has called for the removal of a London coroner over delayed Jewish burials. Mary Hassell, the senior coroner at the St. Pancras coroner’s office in central London, told Jewish leaders in a letter that “no death will be prioritized in any way over any other because of the religion of…
