New York State Senator Daniel Squadron’s surprise resignation Wednesday will allow party insiders to handpick his replacement, Crain’s New York reported Thursday. Squadron, who is Jewish, said Wednesday that he is leaving Albany to work on a nationwide effort to recruit state-level elected officials. The timing of his announcement means that Democratic party officials will…
Jewish students and faculty at Manchester University in Great Britain are demanding that the institution remove books by the Holocaust denier David Irving from its library — a request that the college has denied on free speech grounds. “Leaving Irving’s books on open display is a threat to the safety of Jewish students and staff…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Manhattan Jewish congregation known as the oldest in the United States must face a lawsuit claiming it illegally fired a employee after learning she was 19 weeks pregnant when she married, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived Alana Shultz’s claim that…
Two not-for-profits, Moishe House and Footsteps, are teaming up to create a center for formerly ultra-Orthodox millennial Jews. Moishe House is known widely for subsidizing co-living spaces for residents who use the spaces as hubs for the local twentysomething Jewish community. The residents of the new Moishe House Crown Heights are all Jews who are…
(JTA) — Film producer Harvey Weinstein said he will adapt a novel about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising for the silver screen. Weinstein, who has produced dozens of popular and Academy Award-winning films like “The King’s Speech” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, wrote in an op-ed that he plans to direct a film next…
(JTA) — Jewish organizations sparred over the views of H.R. McMaster, the national security advisor, with the Zionist Organization of America attacking him as anti-Israel and the American Jewish Committee defending him. ZOA, one of the few Jewish organizations to consistently defend President Trump, issued a report on Thursday sharply critical of McMaster. In the…
White House counterterrorism advisor Sebastian Gorka told the BBC on Thursday that Secretary of State Red Tillerson has no business talking about military tensions with North Korea. “You should listen to the president; the idea that Secretary Tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical,” Gorka said, according to The Washington Post: It…
(JTA) — Iran reportedly has removed two players from its national soccer team after they competed against an Israeli team. Haji Safi and Masoud Shojaei play for the Greek soccer club Panionios, which last week competed against Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv team in the Europa League’s third qualifying round second leg held in Greece. The…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Emily’s List, the organization that encourages women to run for office, reported in April that inquiries from women about running for office on the local, state and national level have skyrocketed — from 900 during the 2016 election cycle to 11,000 since Donald Trump’s election as president. How many of these would-be lawmakers…
Political provocateur Roger Stone claimed in a late-night tweet Wednesday that he had spent the evening “laughing about what an asshole Robert Mueller is” with the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Matthew Brooks. In DC w/ my pal @mbrooksrjc feasting on Russian caviar and laughing about what an asshole Robert Mueller is pic.twitter.com/37Dn57Nrq1 —…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Iranian journalist who has been working for an Israeli news website from Turkey arrived in Israel after seeking asylum. Nada Amin landed in Israel on Thursday morning on a tourist visa and will officially request asylum. Turkey had informed Amin last month that she has been stripped of her refugee status…
