JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 70 new Ethiopian immigrants landed in Israel Tuesday, the first to arrive in more than seven months. The 72 immigrants identified as Falash Mura, or Ethiopians who claim Jewish heritage, landed on Tuesday as part of a joint operation between the Jewish Agency and the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem….
Jerry Seinfeld, notorious hug denier, spoke out on Monday night in defense of Kathy Griffin’s bloody head debacle. In an interview with People at the National Night of Laughter and Song in Washington D.C., Seinfeld said, “It was another bad joke. Every comedian tells bad jokes. We all do it. That’s how we find the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Republican and a Democrat in the U.S. Senate introduced legislation that would enhance the role of the State Department’s anti-Semitism envoy. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Monday introduced the “Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2017,” a companion bill to one introduced earlier this…
(JTA) — A small Jewish congregation in Rhode Island is moving into an Episcopal church. Congregation Or Chadash will hold a procession next week, during which congregants will carry their three Torah scrolls out of their former building, which was recently consecrated as the first Hindu Temple in Rhode Island, the Jewish Voice newspaper reported….
As he prepares for former FBI director James Comey’s Senate testimony, President Trump took some time Tuesday evening to host a select group of Republican lawmakers for a private White House dinner. The group included two senators who will be among those questioning Comey in the Senate Intelligence Committee, and several others not involved, including…
A Florida woman who believed the 2012 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school was a hoax was sentenced to five months in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to threatening a parent of one of the children killed. Prosecutors accused ‘hoaxer’ Lucy Richards, 57, of saying she would kill a parent of a Sandy…
Of the approximately 27,000 registered blind Israelis, only about 250 own a guide dog. The Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind is working to change that. Founded in 1991 near Moshav Beit Oved, the center is only accredited guide dog training school in Israel, and it remains the only option for Israelis who need…
Twitter pundits are slamming Trump scion Eric for saying that critics of his father are “not even people.” The comments came in an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity, and quickly drew criticism from the left. Below, a selection of online burns. Joking aside, you know who were known to dehumanize the “enemy” so…
Neanderthals, our late Middle Paleolithic ancestors who roamed the world between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, have long been considered been considered mere cave-dwellers, not a particularly adaptable or complex group that died out for reasons unknown. But recent findings from an Israeli-led archaeological team has newly reignited debates over our forerunners. The study took…
‘Wonder Woman’ director Patty Jenkins is having a very good week. Her first major big-budget studio film had a $103.2 million domestic opening, impressive by any means but especially exciting for Jenkins, who has officially broken the opening weekend cash-money record for female directors. Gal Gadot’s contract has her locked in for a sequel but…
Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe found herself at the center of a Twitter firestorm over a six-year-old post in which she repeated a racial slur for black people. Ioffe, a staff writer at the Atlantic who is known for her liberal politics, initially thought her account had been hacked before realizing the 2011 tweet was actually…
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