It’s hard to keep up with the lingo of the “alt-right,” which morphs and adapts at the speed of the Internet. Some of the phrases are obviously bigoted, others seemingly benign. One relatively new, particularly anti-Semitic, meme known as “fellow white people” requires some unpacking. It’s not new but has recently bubbled up to the…
Residents of the New York town of Monroe voted this week to carve out a portion of their town to create a brand new one with an unusual name: Palm Tree. So why will a village 50 miles north of New York City bear the name of a tropical tree that is particularly ill-suited to…
Anti-Israel activists are trying to take down a small olive oil business as part of the broader boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Galilee Green began seeing negative comments on its Facebook page on November 2 — the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which announced British support for…
In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC, National Economic Council chairman Gary Cohn said that he was “really not upset” that the wealthy will be getting a tax cut as part of the Republican tax reform plan — just weeks after insisting that “The wealthy are not getting a tax cut under our plan.” When CNBC’s…
White House aide Stephen Miller has been interviewed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian involvement in the 2016 election, becoming the highest-ranking current White House figure to be questioned. CNN reported that one of the topics discussed was Miller’s role in the firing of FBI director James Comey earlier this year,…
Kansas secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach posted a photo last week showing him posing with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser. But what caught the eyes of researchers at the Southern Poverty Law Center was the man standing in the background: Marcus Epstein, a known white supremacist….
(JTA) — More than 70 letters from Jews saved from the Nazis by German businessman Oskar Schindler will be auctioned off. Lawrences Auctioneers of England will be handling the Dec. 8 sale. After Schindler and his wife, Emilie, fled Europe for Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1949, they began to receive letters of gratitude from the…
A giant menorah statue was stolen from outside Chabad of Penn State and was found damaged the next day in front of the building of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish fraternity. The theft took place sometime on Friday, October 27, Chabad co-director Rabbi Hershy Gourarie said in a statement. A security camera reportedly showed four…
(JTA) — Male students who violate the rules of a coed shabbaton at Yeshiva University will now be fined $150. The Office of Student Life at the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy instituted the fine for violations of the rules that the male students sign in an agreement before the start of the shabbaton, a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of the Palestinian Authority police confirmed that it had resumed full security cooperation with Israel. Hzem Atallah told journalists in Ramallah on Wednesday that security coordination had resumed completely about two weeks ago after it was partially suspended in July by order of P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas. The decision to…
(JTA) — Calling Israeli children “Zionist terrorists in training” and “future child murderers and occupiers” does not constitute incitement to hate, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said. The Service decided Wednesday to not prosecute Abdoe Khoulani, a lawmaker in the city council of The Hague, on the basis of a criminal complaint filed against him over statements he…
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