Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Meyerland, Texas took a severe hit from hurricane Harvey. The entire building was flooded and repair work on damages will take months and in no way will be done in time for the High Holidays. In the meanwhile, members of the 2000-family synagogue are finding refuge at Lakewood Church, Houston’s megachurch…
Controversial former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has been lying low since being pardoned by President Donald Trump last month, but recently Arpaio broke his silence — and granted an interview with a Holocaust-denying website. In a September 15 interview with the American Free Press — titled “Arapio Bypasses the Fake Media” — Arpaio discussed his…
President Trump is unhappy with the Iran nuclear deal but has not signaled he will abandon it, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday as she pressed Tehran to halt ballistic missile tests and stop supporting terrorism and arms smuggling. “It’s not a clear signal that he plans to withdraw. What it…
A search and rescue team will leave Israel for Mexico in the wake of a severe earthquake in Mexico. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the operation and said it would leave for Mexico as soon as possible, his office said Wednesday morning in a statement. More than 200 people were killed when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake…
(JTA) — The United States put twin brothers from South Africa who planned attacks on Jewish institutions in their native country and on the U.S. embassy on its terror blacklist. Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie, 24, were arrested in July 2016 in South Africa and charged with three counts related to terrorism. They had converted to…
MINSK, Belarus (JTA) — At the age of 36, Yishai Malkin and his family are leading what millions of people in the former Soviet Union would consider a charmed life. A web designer, Malkin and his wife, an event manager, earn a combined monthly salary of $2,000. That’s comfortable enough to allow them to travel…
(JTA) — A rabbi will lead this year’s annual Muslim Day Parade in New York City. Rabbi Marc Schneier, the president and founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding will serve as honorary grand marshal of the parade, which will take place on Sunday. Schneier was chosen in recognition of his pioneering work in the…
A California man was sentenced Friday to life in prison after being convicted of murdering a prominent Jewish doctor who he blamed for a botched procedure that left him incontinent. In 2013, Stanwood Elkus, then 75, drove more than 50 miles to shoot Dr. Ronald Gilbert in his office after making an appointment the previous…
The first kosher certification for medical marijuana in Canada has been awarded to a Quebec company, the Canadian Jewish News reported Tuesday. The Ottawa Vaad HaKashrut certification agency will place its mark on cannabis buds, powders and oils produced by the Hydropothecary Corporation of Gatineau. The agency’s director, Rabbi Levy Teitlebaum, praised his organization’s joint…
Seattle police said that they were responding to a viral video of a man wearing a swastika armband getting punched in the street. The Seattle Police Department said that they responded within five minutes to the scene, where they found the swastika-wearing man on the ground. The victim “declined to provide info about incident &…
The white supremacist who was convicted of shooting nine people in a South Carolina church as part of his plan to start a “race war” has been barred by a federal appeals court from firing his Jewish and Indian-American lawyers. Dylann Roof filed a hand-written motion to the court from his federal prison, arguing that…
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