BERLIN (JTA) — Anti-Semitism among Muslim refugees is rampant and requires urgent attention, a new study suggests. But the study commissioned by the American Jewish Committee’s Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations in Berlin also suggests that refugees from persecuted minority communities are more likely to take a stand against anti-Semitism and for Israel. Titled “Attitudes…
The Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre is teaming up with “branding gurus” at the company Base Design to launch a new advertising campaign — rendering Jewish mysticism for mass consumption. Geoff Cook, a partner at Base Design told Quartz that they were looking to “demystify” Kabbalah. To this end, the branding company created a slew of…
An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor skydived with her grandson on his 18th birthday near Hollywood, a local news station reported. “Thank God. Nice family, nice children, nice grandchildren. I’m not complaining. God was very good to me,” Henriette Siebenberg said. Though Siebenberg’s father was killed in Auschwitz, her mother hid her and her two brothers in…
(JTA) — The family of Iraq’s contestant in the Miss Universe Pageant have left the country due to threats to their lives over her modeling in a bikini and posting on social media photos taken with Miss Israel. Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, lives in the United States and the rest of her family has now…
Vera Katz, the dynamic, three-term mayor of Portland, Oregon who helped give the city its reputation as a haven for hipsters, died this week at 84, the Oregonian reported. The cause was leukemia, her third cancer diagnosis since 2000. Katz was remembered in Portland as a warm yet outspoken political force who often advocated for…
Officials in the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, in New York, gave final approval this month to a major development that will increase the village’s population by 40 percent over five years, the Times Herald-Record reported. Kiryas Veyoel Gardens, a 1,600 condo development, is expected to bring 9,000 residents to a currently undeveloped 70-acre plot…
(JTA) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel has been postponed by several days so that he can stay in Washington to promote the Trump administration’s tax reforms in Congress, according to Israel reports. Pence had been scheduled to arrive in Israel on Sunday to meet with Israeli and Palestinian officials and also…
The Daily Stormer, one of the most prominent neo-Nazi websites, has an extensive “style guide” explaining to potential contributors how to write for the site and help fulfill their goal of making anti-Semitism mainstream. The 17-page document, acquired by HuffPost, explains everything from the site’s hyperlinking policy to its “Prime Directive: Always Blame the Jews…
A Hitler version of “My Little Pony.” Spongebob Squarepants with swastikas. Parents of middle schoolers in a Chicago suburb were horrified to find these images in their students’ language arts folders after a teacher gave them a controversial, Hitler-themed assignment, the New York Post reported. Modeled on the celebrated children’s book “If You Give A…
(JTA) — Senate Minority leader Charles Schumer said he was the victim of a fake report regarding sexual harassment. The news website Axios first reported that Schumer, the senior senator from New York, has turned over to Capitol Police a document that alleges in detail sexual harassment accusations by a former staffer. The former Schumer…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Muslim leaders on Wednesday that a U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was a crime which showed that Washington should no longer play a role in Middle East peace talks. Addressing an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders in Turkey, Abbas said President Trump was…
