(JTA) — The luggage of 10 Michigan yeshiva students was stolen from their van in downtown Chicago. The teens, some of the 32 students celebrating their eighth-grade graduation from Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, a Jewish day school in Southfield, are most upset about losing their tefillin, or phylacteries, the CBS affiliate in Chicago reported Wednesday. In addition…
In a race as close as the congressional runoff between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel, a few hundred votes can make a big difference. That’s one of the reasons cybersecurity experts are raising alarms about possible hacking into Georgia’s voting system. “I was absolutely stunned, just the sheer quantity of files I had acquired,” Logan…
Jeremy Joseph Christian, who was arrested in the killing of two men and wounding of another aboard an Oregon train last month, claimed in a court appearance on June 7 that he was “defending himself.” “Not guilty of anything but defending myself against violent aggression by Micah Fletcher,” Christian said, according to the Oregonian, calling…
After the heat turned up on President Trump following a report that he was being investigated for obstruction of justice, Sean Hannity called for the ouster of special counsel Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who hired Mueller. “Mueller and Rod Rosenstein? Recuse themselves, resign immediately,” the Fox News personality said on…
A new video game where users join a multiracial resistance and battle Nazis in a dystopian 1960s America is causing uproar in “alt-right” forums. “Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus” is the latest iteration of a popular video game series. On the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, an author named Michael Byron described growing up playing the…
(JTA) — In an unusual move, Israel’s ambassador to France criticized in harsh terms a French-German television channel’s nixing of a documentary on anti-Semitism. The decision, announced last week by the state-funded Arte channel citing the film’s alleged focus on Muslim countries, is “an obfuscation of information and an encroachment on the public’s right to…
The Israeli airline El Al was ranked as the noisiest, dirtiest airline operating out of Heathrow Airport, according to the results of a list published by the airport. The Fly Quiet and Clean League Table, which Heathrow intends to release every quarter in order to encourage airlines to fly more fuel efficient planes, ranked the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) — The Israeli Embassy marked LGBT Pride Month with a reception for Jewish and Israeli activists and leaders. About 100 people attended the event, which featured an address by Talleen Abu Hana, an Arab Christian from Nazareth who won the first Miss Trans Israel beauty pageant in 2016. The embassy also paid tribute to…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent wishes for a speedy recovery for the victims of the shooting at a Republican team’s baseball practice for a charity game against congressional Democrats. “On behalf of the Government and people of Israel, I send our heartfelt wishes for a full and speedy recovery to Congressman…
(JTA) — The members of the Modern Language Association have voted to reject academic boycotts of Israel. The MLA announced Wednesday that the resolution passed by a vote of 1,954 to 885. A vote of ten percent of the organization’s more than 18,000 eligible voting members was needed to pass the resolution and make it…
(JTA) — The Vatican and Israel may finally be ready to resolve outstanding bilateral issues and fully finalize the Fundamental Agreement governing relations between the two states. A joint statement issued Wednesday following a meeting the previous day at the Vatican of the Bilateral Permanent Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel expressed…
וואָלט דער אָפּרוף געווען אַנדערש, ווען דער ציל פֿון די טעראָריסטן וואָלט ניט געווען ייִדן, נאָר אַן אַנדער גרופּע?
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