CHICAGO (JTA) — A Jewish family is suing a Chicago-area funeral home for botching a burial so badly that the casket toppled and splintered in the grave, exposing the deceased’s white shroud to a gathering of over 100 traumatized mourners. After three months of trying unsuccessfully to settle the case, the family of tax attorney…
(JTA) — A Brooklyn couple killed in a house fire was remembered as “genuine,” “righteous” and “devoted to family” at their joint funeral. Mourners spilled outside a Borough Park chapel on Monday afternoon for the joint funeral of Howard and Evelyn Gluck, who were killed early that morning in a blaze that ripped through their…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs has reversed its opposition to allowing same-sex couples to adopt in the country. The ministry said in a Supreme Court brief that there is no problem in principle with adoption by a same-sex couple. The brief was filed in response to a petition regarding adoption…
(JTA) — Most Houston-area Jewish institutions have been flooded due to Tropical Storm Harvey and a large portion of the city’s Jewish population is living in areas that have experienced flooding, the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston said. “While we do not yet know the full extent of the damage, we know that most of…
(JTA) — Police are searching for a 25-year-old Jewish woman from Atlanta who has been missing for a week and a half. Jenna Van Gelderen was last seen on Aug. 18, when she was house-sitting at her parent’s home while they were away on a trip. The following day her brother found the house locked…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Each year, the Aleph Bet Jewish Day School in Annapolis, Maryland, would run a monthly fire drill for its 32 students. Then the school was hit with a bomb threat in February. So this year, Aleph Bet is upping the ante, adding monthly evacuation drills to the fire drills. The bomb…
Charlie Hebdo published an inflammatory cover this week praising God for having “drowned all the neo-Nazis of Texas” with the onset of Hurricane Harvey. The headline, posted on Facebook ahead of Wednesday publication, read: “God exists, he drowned all the neo-Nazis of Texas.” The cartoon on the front shows people drowning amid Nazi flags. The…
Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump managed to sustain a friendly relationship, keeping their parents’ bickering off limits as they vied for the title of First Daughter. Now, the twittersphere is buzzing with what could be Chelsea Clinton’s subtle dig at Ivanka Trump. What started it all was a report that an associate of Ivanka Trump’s…
The genomics company 23andMe has retracted a statement made on the profiles of some users with Ashkenazi heritage that they may be descended from an extinct tribe from the Caucasus known as the Khazars, inadvertently wading into a political-genetic debate with far-reaching implications for Jewish identity and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The company said in a…
Bo Rothstein resigned from his endowed professorship in government at Oxford University after learning that his school had been named in honor of a supporter of President Trump who had donated tens of millions of British pounds to the institution. “I’ve never had so much applause in my life,” said Rothstein, a Swedish-Jewish political scientist…
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft pledged to match up to $1 million in donations to the American Red Cross to support those affected by disastrous flooding in Texas. The unprecedented rainfall in Houston has claimed at least 10 lives, displaced tens of thousands of people, and caused billions of dollars worth of damage. Jewish…
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