The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern that a witness at a congressional hearing on a controversial gun bill wrote a book arguing that gun control rendered Jews defenseless during the Holocaust. Stephen Halbrook, who wrote “Gun Control in the Third Reich” in 2015, is set to appear Tuesday at a meeting of the U.S. House of…
Filmmaker J.J. Abrams will write and direct the ninth installment of the ongoing “Star Wars” saga, Walt Disney Co said Tuesday, a week after the film lost its writer-director due to creative differences with the studio. Abrams will helm “Star Wars: Episode IX” after he launched the current iteration of “Star Wars” films with 2015’s…
Laura Loomer, the young Jewish voice of the far right, says she has struck up an unlikely romance with Tim Gionet — the online troll better known as Baked Alaska who previously tweeted a picture of Loomer in a gas chamber. A love story better than “The Notebook”. ❤️? @bakedalaska https://t.co/yFPtvRIuAE — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer)…
(JTA) — A German court officially dropped its case against a 96-year-old former Auschwitz medic because he has dementia. The decision on Tuesday came after Hubert Zafke was found unfit to stand trial for his role in the murder of more than 3,600 people at the Nazi death camp. German prosecutors submitted a motion last…
The Israeli prime minister’s son won acclaim from American white supremacists after posting an anti-Semitic meme online. White supremacist leader David Duke took to Twitter over the weekend to cheer Yair Netanyahu. “Welcome to the club, Yair – absolutely amazing,” Duke wrote, “wow, just wow.” Welcome to the club, Yair – absolutely amazing, wow, just…
Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Argentina on Tuesday as the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America, praised President Mauricio Macri’s effort to resolve the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 people. The bombing, which has yet to be solved, has been blamed by the Argentine…
Local primary races in New York City are pretty ho-hum this year. With no real challenger for Mayor Bill de Blasio, primary day will pass more-or-less unnoticed tomorrow. Sixteen years ago yesterday was a different story. After eight tumultuous years, Rudy Giuliani was term limited out, clearing the way for what the New York Times,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teen was arrested near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron after he was found to be concealing a knife. The incident on Tuesday is the third in the last week, according to Israel Police. The boy, 15, had been hiding the knife under his shirt, and when he was…
ROME (JTA) – A documentary film about a Polish-Jewish filmmaker has won an award at the Venice Film Festival. The Polish-German co-production, “The Prince and the Dybbuk,” by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski, received the Venice Classics Award for Best Documentary on Cinema. The film traces the life of Moshe Waks, who was born into a poor Jewish…
President Trump’s legal team reportedly wanted Jared Kushner fired over his involvement in the Russia collusion scandal — but his father-in-law refused to dump him. The Wall Street Journal said “some” of Trump’s shifting legal team recommended in June that Kushner be ousted from his position as a top White House adviser. Trump, whose daughter…
(JTA) — Yeshiva University celebrated the investiture of Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman as its fifth president. More than 2,000 people, including Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Consul General of Israel in New York, Dani Dayan; former Sen. Joseph Lieberman, former Israeli Ambassador Danny Ayalon; and Israel’s United Nations Amb. Danny Danon, were in attendance at the…
