(JTA) — A Canadian member of the Jewish Defense League was indicted by a grand jury for charges that include an assault on an Arab teacher outside the AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C. Yosef Steynovitz, 32, of Thornhill, Ontario, faces one count of assaulting a man with a dangerous weapon and one count of assaulting…
(JTA) — Jerry Yellin, who flew the last combat mission of World War II and later helped fellow veterans overcome their trauma, has died. Yellin died Thursday in Florida at the home of one of his four sons after battling lung cancer. He was 93. Yellin, a lieutenant in the U.S. in the 78th Fighter…
Arab students reportedly yelled epithets and threats at a Jewish student in a high school in Berlin, the Berliner Zeitung reported. During a discussion about Israel, the Jewish student expressed his opposition to a Palestinian state. A few students responded by telling him that “Hitler was a good man because he murdered Jews,” and that…
(JTA) — Members of an anarchist group in Greece vandalized the Israeli embassy in Athens using bottles of red paint. The group, Rubicon, filmed themselves committing the early-morning attack on Monday and posted the video online. The video shows the members of the group riding up to the embassy building on motorcycles and throwing the…
Steven Cohen may soon be able to manager other people’s money once again — but potential investors are wary, the New York Times reported. Cohen, a billionaire who for years ran S.A.C. Capital, nearly had had his career destroyed after a government investigation into insider trading at his firm. Cohen was banned for two years…
A bomb squad was called to the Los Angeles home of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Saturday night after a mysterious package was left on the doorstep. But it was just a pile of horse manure, the New York Times reported. Helicopter footage captured authorities spilling the manure out of a large box onto Mnuchin’s porch….
(JTA) — One of France’s oldest publishing houses announces the recall of a magazine for children featuring trivia game cards stating that Israel and North Korea are not real countries. The cards that appeared in the January 2018 edition of the Youpi magazine, which belongs to the Groupe Bayard publishing house, read: “197: We call…
(JTA) — Pop star Lorde said in an statement it is the “right decision at this time” to cancel a summer concert in Israel. The singer, 21, said that she educated herself about Israel before booking the June concert announced a week ago but that “I didn’t make the right call on this one.” In…
(JTA) — A van driver let loose an anti-Semitic rant during a road-rage incident in north London’s Stamford Hills neighborhood. The incident took place on Friday afternoon as the Jewish Sabbath was approaching, over a parking space. Stamford Hills is home to a large population of haredi Orthodox Jews. The driver repeatedly said “Hitler was…
(JTA) — A teenage boy shot and killed the parents of his girlfriend after they convinced her not to see him anymore because he was an “outspoken neo Nazi.” The boy, 17, of Lorton, Virginia, on Friday shot and seriously injured himself after killing his girlfriend’s parents in their home. He was charged on Saturday…
Jordan Feldstein, manager of prominent musical acts like Maroon 5, died Friday night, December 22, at the age of 40. Feldstein is the brother of actors Jonah Hill and Beanie Feldstein. “Unfortunately, last night Jordan called 911 for shortness of breath, when paramedics arrived it was determined he went into full cardiac arrest and passed…
