A Jewish family’s home in New York City’s Staten Island was defaced with a swastika and an anti-Semitic slur, the local news website SILive reported Wednesday. Debra Calabrese said she discovered the swastika and the word “kyke,” both painted in black paint, on her garage after her son informed her early Wednesday morning. “I was…
A nominee for a federal judge position in Texas claimed in interviews that the United States’s actions towards Christians is similar to crackdowns that took place in Nazi Germany, CNN reported Wednesday. Texas assistant attorney general Jeff Mateer, who was nominated by Trump earlier this year, claimed in a radio interview in 2014 that the…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Conservative movement will maintain its ban on interfaith marriages while seeking to welcome couples who are already intermarried, according to a new letter signed by the movement’s four leaders. The letter, published this week and addressed to the centrist movement’s clergy, educators and leaders, follows a summer when a few…
An exiled rival of Russian President Vladimir Putin has alleged that presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner’s meeting with Russian bankers in December 2016 was likely approved by Moscow officials. “I am almost convinced that Putin’s people have tried to influence the U.S. election in some way,” Mikhail Khodorkovsky told MSNBC. He added that the likelihood that…
(JTA) — Police in Romania arrested three teenagers accused of destroying 10 headstones at a Jewish cemetery. The incident occurred over the weekend, police said in a statement Monday about the arrests near the northern city of Reghin, located 200 miles north of Bucharest, the capital. The suspects allegedly smashed the headstones and drew a swastika on two…
A letter unearthed at Auschwitz and recently restored details the horrors of the gas chamber, the Jerusalem Post reported. Written by one of the Sonderkommando, the prisoners tasked with burning the corpses of gassed victims, the letter was made legible using advanced technology this month. “I am not sad that I will die,” Marcel Nadjari…
A female IDF solider was forced to use karate to fend off a swarm of Hasidic Jews protesting the compulsory military draft in Jerusalem Monday, the Washington Post reported. Nomi Golan, who was off duty at the time, was attempting to guide a car through the raucous protests. “They attacked me, so as a soldier,…
A Brooklyn rabbi will be sent to prison for stealing nearly $5 million in funds earmarked for children in special education programs, the AP reported. Samuel Hiller was one of four defendants indicted in 2014 for funneling $12.4 million away from a child development center into home improvement projects and other ultra-Orthodox institutions around the…
In a dramatic move reshaping the map of American philanthropies, Jewish businessman and philanthropist George Soros has disclosed a major boost to his Open Society Foundations with an $18 billion cash infusion from his personal wealth. The move will make Soros’ foundation the third largest charity in the world and the second largest in America,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Anthony Scaramucci, the financier who briefly helmed President Donald Trump’s communications department, pledged $25,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center after an account in his name posted a survey asking people how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust. “On behalf of the @ScaramucciPost we will be making a $25,000 donation to The…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Left-wing Meretz Party leader Zehava Galon is resigning from Knesset. Galon made the announcement on Wednesday, after meeting with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. She said she will dedicate the next few months to working to strengthening the party. She said she wanted to make the party open to new people and would…
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