(JTA) — The Jewish owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team said he is “considering” a run for president. Mark Cuban, 59, said in a podcast released on Tuesday that he is “Considering, yes. Ready to commit to it, no,” to a White House run for 2020. He appeared on the podcast of Bakari…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a plaque last week to inaugurate the country’s new National Holocaust Monument. There was just one problem—the plaque did not mention anti-Semitism or the Jewish people. “The National Holocaust Monument commemorates the millions of men, women, and children murdered during the Holocaust and honours the survivors who persevered and…
Just in time for Halloween, Amazon is selling outfits designed to scare you with…circumcision? The popular online retailer posted a link on Monday to buy T-shirts with the words “cut pumpkins not babies” circling a snarling jack-o-lantern. The shirts are available in men’s and women’s sizes and five different colors for $16.99. Unlike a mohel,…
Political campaigns often attract candidates with extraordinary biographies, but none may be as unique as that of Dr. Yona Barash, who announced last month that he was running as a Republican challenger in a Sacramento swing district. Barash was born in Romania in 1945, when it was occupied by Nazi Germany. His family made it…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer exhorted the State Department not to send back to Iraq a trove of artifacts that belonged to its now exiled Jewish community. In a letter shared with JTA, the New York Democrat on Tuesday urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to work with Jewish groups and…
The Jewish studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles will honor Rabbi Elliot Dorff later this month. Dorff, the rector and distinguished service professor at American Jewish University, will be the first-ever recipient of the Leve Award, given by the school’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Dorff is also the chair…
After her college-age daughter needed to go to the emergency room but didn’t have a way to contact her, a Jewish mother helped to create an app that stores such information and also provides other services college students may need in a serious situation. Gail Schenbaum Lawton was inspired to develop the app, called Umergency,…
Congresswoman Jacky Rosen was about to go to bed Sunday night when her daughter called from college. “She was hysterical,” Rosen recalled. That was how the Nevada Democrat, who represents parts of Las Vegas and neighboring cities, heard of the deadly shooting outside the Mandalay Bay hotel. Rosen has spent the past two days visiting…
Weiss Kosher Bakery in Brooklyn was hit with anti-Semitic messages on Monday, after mail was delivered to the Borough Park cake and cookie shop that included a Nazi swastika and other Third Reich slogans. “Make America Great Again” read the typed-out message, delivered via mail. “Juden Raus. Negroes and faggots must burn in hell. Christian…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Crossings between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza will be closed to Palestinians for 11 days beginning with the start of the Sukkot holiday. Exceptions for the Oct. 4-14 closings will be made for humanitarian, medical and unusual cases with the approval of the Israeli military’s coordinator of government activities in…
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer urged President Donald Trump on Tuesday to bring together both major parties to devise a solution to gun violence after this week’s attack in Las Vegas in which 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured. “I am requesting the president to call us together, Democrats and Republicans, to…
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