Music streaming services have completely revolutionized the way we listen to music nowadays. While we once had to save up our pocket money to buy Britney Spears’ second (and best!) album at the local record store, we can now discover new music every day without going broke (overwhelmingly to the detriment of most bands, but…
Barcelona’s chief rabbi said it did not appear Jews were specifically targeted in the van-ramming terror attack that killed at least 13 people. The attack took place on the famed Rambla avenue near the entrance to Maccabi, a kosher restaurant, CNN reported. But most of the carnage occurred outside the FNAC department store on the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a rate statement unrelated to Israel or the Middle East, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee implicitly rebuked President Donald Trump for drawing an equivalence between the sides in the Charlottesville, Va. clash. “AIPAC shares the outrage and deep concern of our fellow Americans about the inexcusable violence and sickening displays…
(JTA) — Johnny Cash’s children took to social media to denounce a neo-Nazi who wore a T-shirt with the singer’s name on it during the Charlottesville far-right rally last weekend. In a Facebook post Wednesday, Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, Tara and John Carter Cash pointed out that their late father had received humanitarian awards from, among…
The standards department of the Associated Press is updating their internal definition of the “alt-right” to include anti-Semitism — after an earlier version made no mention of the white nationalist movement’s particular prejudice against Jews. “We are adding ‘anti-Semitism’ to the definition of ‘alt-right,’” the vice president of standards wrote in an update to a…
A van crashed into dozens of people near a kosher restaurant in the center of Barcelona on Thursday and Spanish media said at least 13 people were killed. Police said several people were injured and described the incident on Twitter as a “massive crash.” The incident took place outside Maccabi, a kosher restaurant in the…
Two Jewish advisers stood next to President Trump when he delivered his comments comparing neo-Nazis to those who protested against them. And while Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, has made his fury known, at least in inner circles, press reports indicate that Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, while quieter on the issue, was also not…
A blogger for the Hebrew language edition of Haaretz tweeted out a “Starter chart to the [Israeli] right” in the aftermath of the events in Charlottesville this past weekend. The chart cheekily suggests that Israel’s right is friends with Nazis who support Israeli, and hate non-Nazis who hate Israel. The flow chart was posted in…
The comedian and writer Dean Obeidallah filed a defamation lawsuit against the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer on Wednesday, just as the site has been booted from a series of online hosts over the last two days. The site’s publisher Andrew Anglin falsely claimed in June that Obeidallah, an American Muslim who hosts a Sirius…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Queens Museum will host an event commemorating the United Nations decision to establish a Jewish state, reversing a decision to cancel it. The museum, run by the New York City borough of Queens, is housed in the same building where the General Assembly vote partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — David Shulkin, the secretary of veterans affairs, became the first Jewish member of the Trump administration after President Donald Trump’s daughter to speak out about the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia. Shulkin, speaking Wednesday at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, told reporters that he was “giving…
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