Around the picnic tables at Whitefish City Beach on the final Shabbat eve of last month, the Montana town’s tiny Jewish community shared kosher hot dogs, veggie burgers and memories of terror. In a year when white supremacists have been ascendant, at least in their public profile, perhaps no community has been harder hit than…
Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the landmark 2013 Supreme Court that laid the groundwork for nationwide same-sex marriage rights, died Tuesday. The New York Times reported her death, citing her wife, Judith Kasen-Windsor. The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Windsor married her first wife, Thea Spyer, in Canada in 2007, after being with her for…
Mark Meechan appeared in a Scottish court on Monday, charged with a hate crime against Jews. His alleged crime? Teaching his girlfriend’s dog to perform a Nazi salute. “My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is, so I thought I would turn him into the least cute…
(JTA) — There are almost as many reality cop shows on television as there are Real Housewives. “Cops” is the granddaddy of them all, in its 30th season, plus there’s “Night Watch” and “Live PD,” to name just a few. The newest is “Street Justice: The Bronx,” which premieres Sept. 19 on the Discovery Channel….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The New Israel Fund, a group that funds many Israeli left-wing nonprofits, sued journalists at the free Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom for defamation. The lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that the journalists knowingly lied in three reports that the New Israel Fund paid for a going-away event for a former Arab-Israeli lawmaker who…
(JTA) — This Jewish year was not a quiet one, to say the least. From the tumultuous first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, to a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers, to a neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville that turned violent, to the twin weather catastrophes of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Jews, like…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investor Carl Icahn never wielded excessive influence on U.S. biofuels policy while acting as President Trump’s adviser on regulation, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter to a Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. The letter, dated September 11, was a response to repeated requests by Whitehouse and other Democratic…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s lower house of parliament approved on Tuesday a bill aimed at curbing fascist propaganda, more than 70 years after the death of wartime dictator Benito Mussolini. Under existing laws, pro-fascist propaganda is only penalized if it is seen to be part of an effort to revive the old Fascist Party. The…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday used the first Latin America visit by an Israeli PM to praise Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s effort to solve the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people. Argentine courts have blamed the attack on Iran. But no one has…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a law that increased the number of draft exemptions for haredi Orthodox yeshiva students. The legislation, passed two years ago, was “unconstitutional, disproportionate, and harms equality,” the justices wrote in the majority decision, which passed 8-1. The law’s stated purpose of reducing the inequality of the burden of…
(JTA) — Some lawyers for President Trump recommended that Jared Kushner step down as senior White House adviser over the Russia scandal. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the president’s lawyers were not united in the opinion. The article also said that Trump believed Kushner had done nothing wrong, thus there was no reason…
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