Three Israelis were killed Friday night in the West Bank settlement of Halamish, after a Palestinian assailant broke into a family home, stabbing them to death and leaving another person in serious medical condition. According to initial reports, the victims were a man in his 40s, a man in his 60s and a woman in…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Neighbors of a shuttered synagogue in the Bronx want its apparent owners to clean up the trash that is accumulating on its property. Congregation Hope of Israel on Walton Avenue in the lower Grand Concourse neighborhood — once the hub of a vibrant Jewish community in the New York City borough…
Photos have come out of the bloodied nose of Avery Arjang, the 18-year-old son of Manhattan jewelers who was punched in the face at a Hamptons gala by magazine magnate Michael Loeb. The pictures, released by the New York Post and taken at a hospital after the beat-down, show Arjang’s nose bandaged, with blood on…
(JTA) — Two Israelis were reportedly killed and one wounded in a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement north of Ramallah. Two men, in their 40s and 60s, and a woman in her 40s reportedly died of their wounds, while a woman in her 60s was seriously injured in the stabbing attack in the…
Did Jared Kushner score a victory in the White House turf wars with the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci and the ouster of press secretary Sean Spicer? Scaramucci, according to NBC met Thursday with Ivanka Trump, Kushner’s wife and Trump’s daughter, to discuss his joining the president’s press shop — and was reportedly opposed strongly by…
(JTA) — A coalition of faith organizations, more than half of them Jewish, issued a statement objecting to a presidential commission investigating what the 24 signatories called “baseless claims” of widespread voter fraud. In the letter sent to members of Congress Thursday, the coalition urged lawmakers not to fund the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,…
Sean Hannity will skip a prestigious right-wing media award ceremony amid growing backlash to his obsession with conspiracy theories swirling around the 2016 murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich. According to CNN, Hannity will not be at the conservative Media Research Center’s September gala to receive the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence in…
A recent violent summer storm toppled countless of graves and split thousands of trees in Warsaw’s Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery, founded in 1806, is largely abandoned and has only a few volunteers to maintain its 83 acres and 250,000 marked headstones. “This scene is terrible,” a visitor told the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Hamevasser. “Thousands of Jewish…
Norm Eisen, former ethics czar for the Obama administration, has a stern warning for President Trump: Don’t even think of firing Robert Mueller or preemptively pardoning those involved in Russian election interference. Eisen, who is currently with the Brookings Institution, warned against taking steps that would put the president and the White House in a…
After mixed signals on whether U.C. Berkeley would support Ben Shapiro’s appearance on campus, the university has pledged to pay and secure a venue for the right-wing pundit, whose September address there will mark another chapter in the college’s free speech wars. “This event is going to happen. We just need to sit down with…
After news broke that O.J. Simpson would soon be released from Nevada prison after serving nine years for armed robbery, the family of murder victim Ron Goldman denounced the decision as justice gone wrong. “He became exactly who he normally is, and I started to panic a little and obviously like everybody else we watched…
מאַטי מענדלאָוויטשעס ברודער, וואָס האָט יאָרן לאַנג געליטן פֿון דעפּרעסיע, האָט הײַיאָר זיך גענומען דאָס לעבן. .
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