President Trump is reportedly angry with his daughter/adviser Ivanka for publicly criticizing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls. Ivanka Trump said last week she believed the women who had leveled the accusations against Moore, the Republican nominee. “There’s a special place in hell for people who prey…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely publicly apologized if statements she made about American Jewry, including that they “never send their children to fight for their country” and that “most of them are having quite convenient lives,” offended Jews in the U.S. In an interview with the Hadashot news agency, she reiterated a…
(JTA) — A township council in Ontario will vote on whether or not to rename a street called Swastika Trail. The street in Puslinch Township, located about 50 miles west of Toronto, reportedly was named in the 1920s. Residents have told the Canadian Press that the swastika should not be vilified as it is an…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will address the Knesset when he visits Israel next month. Senior officials in Jerusalem told Israel’s Channel 10 news that Pence had suggested speaking to the Knesset, and that his offer was accepted. Pence will be the first senior US official to address the Knesset since President…
(JTA) — Conservative Jewish congregants in Sharon, Massachusetts, are suing the local Chabad, alleging its members infiltrated their leadership in a bid to take control of their synagogue and its assets. The case filed by members of Temple Adath Sharon will be heard Monday in Norfolk County Superior Court, The Jewish Advocate, a Boston weekly…
(JTA) — New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler will become the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee after Rep. John Conyers announced he would step down from his post amid accusations of sexual harassment and misuse of office resources. Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, announced Sunday he would step down from the powerful post, as…
(JTA) — Polish police seized a banner reading “no Jews, speculators and traitors allowed” from the entrance to a hotel that reportedly is owned by an ultranationalist who is jailed for anti-Semitic hate speech. Officers were sent Thursday night following the surfacing of images on social networks showing the banner on the gate to the…
(JTA) — A veiled woman in a supermarket near Toulouse assaulted with two younger women a Jewish woman and her teenage son, a watchdog on anti-Semitism said. The incident occurred in Carcassonne, a town situated 55 miles southeast of Toulouse, on Tuesday, the National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, reported Friday. The watchdog…
Testimony from an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor in Minnesota could help convict an alleged former Nazi concentration camp guard. Judith Meisel testified to German prosecutors and FBI agents who visited Minnesota this summer to take her testimony about her experiences at the Stutthof camp. Meisel is believed to be one of the last living survivors of…
The New York Times’s Saturday profile of white nationalist Tony Hovater garnered criticism for focusing on his video game habits and pasta recipe as well as his hatred of Jews. Some took issue with the idea of pointing out “normal” aspects of racist anti-Semites: Pssst, German Jews were also normal Germans before their fellow citizens…
An upcoming auction of historical items at Christie’s in New York includes a 1798 letter from leaders of the Jewish community of the Caribbean island of Curacao protesting the anti-Semitism of the French colonial ruler. The two-page manuscript, written by community leaders David Cohen Henriquez and Jacob de Castro, protested a statement from the French…
