(JTA) — Beatrice Marks’ one-story home might flood this week. But she laughs off the threat. “It doesn’t faze me one bit. Not anymore,” said Marks, 86, whose community of seniors lies in the path of Hurricane Irma, which is set to make landfall in Florida at the end of the week. “As far as…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Public transportation on Shabbat is not an essential need, Israel’s government told the Supreme Court in response to a lawsuit. Several liberal groups and a Meretz party lawmaker, Tamar Zandberg, filed the lawsuit calling for public transportation during the 25 hours of the Jewish Sabbath. Buses and trains do not run in…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in a comprehensive speech laid out a possible case for the United States to leave the Iran deal, although she said no decision had been made. Haley’s argument, made Monday in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, was…
(JTA) — Police arrested a New York man and charged him with a hit-and-run accident that seriously injured an elderly rabbi. Rabbi Jordan Kelemer, 71, is the long-time rabbi of the Young Israel of West Hempstead on Long Island. He was hit in December while crossing the street in front of the synagogue; the driver…
(JTA) — For close to 30 years, leaders of Polish Jewry have been celebrating what they call the revival of their once-great community from near annihilation during the Holocaust. On occasions like the opening of Jewish kindergartens and other communal institutions, often held up as the first since the genocide, activists note milestones, contrasting them…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers attacked as immoral President Donald Trump’s decision to end an Obama-era program granting protections to illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. The Trump administration on Monday said it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program launched by President Barack…
A Jewish woman has filed a lawsuit against a Detroit-area Denny’s restaurant for serving her bacon. Angela Montgomery, 30, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, said she found bacon in the “loaded veggie” omelet served to her last month at her neighborhood Denny’s. The lawsuit says Montgomery “is a practicing Jew whose religion forbids the eating of…
The Wirecutter, a popular product recommendation site, recently offered reviews about the leading genetic ancestry testing services. The big surprise? 23andMe, the popular genomics company, was not listed as a top pick. Instead, the site ranked Ancestry.com and Family Tree DNA as the best picks. The Wirecutter’s decision not to recommend 23andMe had to do…
A full third of Google searches on the site’s Spanish language service lead to anti-Semitic results, including about Holocaust denial, according to an Argentine research organization. “There is a worrying positive viewing of antisemitic content and that is a growing trend. The most viewed are about Holocaust denial,” said Ariel Siedler, a representative at Observatorio…
Real estate and media mogul Mortimer B. Zuckerman has sold one of his flagship publications, the New York Daily News, offloading the newspaper’s estimated $30 million in liabilities and 49.9% of its printing plant. This marks the end of an era for Zuckerman, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the biggest machers…
Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka said yesterday that white supremacists are “not a serious threat” in America. The real threat? A “rising tendency toward political violence” on the left, he said. Speaking on Breitbart radio, Gorka said that the loosely organized antifa movement is part of the “normalization of violence on the left.” “Let’s…
