WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The Polish Institute of National Remembrance has distanced itself from one of its historians who wrote in an op-ed that the situation of the Jews “did not look very bad” after the Nazis entered Poland. The piece by Tomasz Panfil, the historian responsible for education at the Polish Institute of National…
(JTA) — A Brooklyn rabbi was left traumatized by an incident in which a Vermont state trooper ordered him at gunpoint to lie down after he failed to pull over his car, his son said. Rabbi Berl Fink did not pull over for more than 4 miles when the officer, Justin Thompson, flashed his blue…
A prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi is retiring from the Israeli religious school network he founded that broke new ground in the religious education of Jewish women. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is stepping down as chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone network, which he founded when he moved to Israel in 1983. Riskin, 77, will be replaced…
The owner of Chicago Jewish deli ignited controversy on Monday for posting a tweet in which he mocked the Las Vegas shooting victims for being white. “Soon as I heard it was country music, I felt relief. White people shooting white people isn’t terror … it’s community outreach. #LasVegas,” he wrote on his personal account…
The Hungarian government is taking up a notch its anti-George Soros harassment campaign, preparing documents that allege conspiracy-style that the Holocaust survivor and billionaire is planning to inundate Europe with Third World refugees. “The goal of the Soros plan is to diminish the importance of the language and culture of European countries in order to…
Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, rabbi and dean of the Yavneh Hebrew Academy of Los Angeles, called for a campaign that “challenges each of its community members to fill the next 59 days with 59 good deeds”. In a letter to school parents and members, Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn wrote: As we approach Sukkot and in the wake…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg clapped back at new colleague Neil Gorsuch in a biting riposte on Tuesday as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case before the court challenging partisan gerrymandering. “Maybe we can just for a second talk about the arcane matter of the Constitution,” Gorsuch, appointed by President Trump…
A white nationalist and a proud Jewish woman sit down on a couch. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it’s the beginning of the latest video by edgy filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler. WATCH:
A man says he found documents from Nazi Germany containing the signatures of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joaquim von Ribbentrop and other prominent Nazis in a van he bought at an auction, the Register-Guard reported. The man, from Eugene, Oregon, bought the 1985 blue Ford Econoline at an auction in mid-September, and discovered the paperwork…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat sent a letter of sympathy and support to the Jewish mayor of Las Vegas. The letter to Mayor Carolyn Goodman was sent on Tuesday. At least 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured in the attack Sunday night on tens of thousands of people attending a…
A startling expose has revealed that Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance, had prosecutors in his office stop pursuing a criminal case against Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in 2012 after a visit from Marc Kasowitz, who had been a top donor to Vance’s campaign. According to the story, which was produced by WNYC, Pro…
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