The grand rabbi, or “rebbe,” of the Boyan sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews is offering $4,000 to anyone who suggests a successful match between “older singles” in their community, the Israeli news site Arutz Sheva reported Wednesday. The “older” designation applies to single men over the age of 23 and single women over the age of…
A new Rolling Stone profile of presidential aide Sebastian Gorka has hit the internet just as the Trump-favored émigré with ties to far-right racist and anti-Semitic forces in Hungary is opining increasingly on mainstream media on sensitive topics from North Korea to U.S. mosque bombings. The profile, by free-lancer Bob Dreyfuss, notes the role of…
Among the Igbo, one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups, there is widespread identification with Jews, and many see themselves as descendants of the biblical Israelites. But a recent test to determine if a group of Igbo men share genetic material with Jews is back — and no connection was found. Even before the results were…
(JTA) — Glen Campbell, the country music star who died at 81 on Tuesday from Alzheimer’s, grew up in rural Arkansas. The man who sang hits such as “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “By the Time I Get To Phoenix” was raised a Baptist in a family of 12. But as the Jewish Journal pointed out, Reuters…
Wading into the internal divides inside the Trump White House, the Zionist Organization of America issued a report on Wednesday that was highly critical of National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. The report, first leaked exclusively to Breitbart, supports claims raised by right-wing activists aligned with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon that McMaster is biased…
Campers and staff members displaced after an overnight fire at a Jewish summer camp in Colorado have been relocated to a nearby JCC camp. The 130 campers of Ramah Rockies, along with their counselors, are now staying at nearby JCC Ranch Camp, another Jewish outdoor adventure camp. “While the campers are now in a new…
(JTA) — Twitter has removed a handful of racist tweets and suspended several accounts after a German-Israeli satirist spray painted about 30 of them outside the company’s headquarters in Hamburg. Shahak Shapira used water soluble spray-paint to write the nearly 30 offensive tweets on Twitter’s building and on the ground around it. He claimed responsibility for…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A German-Israeli settler who fled to Brazil after killing a Palestinian will be extradited to serve his sentence in the Jewish state. Brazil’s Supreme Court decided unanimously on Wednesday to accede to an Israeli request to extradite Yehoshua Elitzur back to Israel to serve a prison sentence for killing Palestinian…
SYDNEY (JTA) — A Chabad congregation whose bid for a new synagogue building was blocked out of fears that it would become a target for terrorism will resubmit plans to the local municipality. Leaders of the congregation, known as Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, or FREE, met Wednesday with Sydney’s Waverley Council to discuss…
A T-shirt design company has come under fire this week for creating -— and then defending —- clothing items that make use of the swastika symbol. As the company, KA Design, showed in this video, it wanted to make “the new swastika” so as to rid the symbol of its association with Nazism. “They took…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli soldier convicted of shooting a downed Palestinian terrorist entered military prison to begin serving his 18-month sentence. Elor Azaria arrived at a military base in the center of the county on Wednesday, a day after the Military Court of Appeals denied his request to delay the beginning of his sentence until…
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