A Chabad house in California won a legal victory when a judge ruled the controversial practice of kapparot, in which a live chicken is ritually killed before Yom Kippur, does not constitute a “business act” under state law. U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr., in a written opinion released Friday, did not directly touch on…
Bloggers in the “alt-right” orbit are benefiting from having sources close to President Donald Trump — and have recently been getting “legitimate scoops” before more established journalists. Mike Cernovich is the most dramatic example, a post from the partisan advocacy site Media Matters America pointed out. “By providing people like Cernovich with this information, the…
Police arrested a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday night in connection with the massive fire that burned down an historic synagogue on the Lower East Side. A police spokesman confirmed that the young man would be charged with arson. The spokesman said that he had no information on a suspected motive. A spokesperson for the New…
The bombshell news that President Trump passed on sensitive Israeli intelligence to the Russians has been met by almost absolute silence from pro-Israel groups. None of the leading Jewish or pro-Israel groups have put out statements about the disclosure, first revealed by the New York Times. Israeli media is reporting that intelligence officials there are…
BERLIN (JTA) — Six people have been charged with incitement to hate after spewing anti-Semitic abuse on passengers in a Munich city bus. Only two passengers – a couple from Munich – attempted to intervene in the weekend incident. According to news reports, the alleged perpetrators, all from Munich and Ebersberg and ranging in age from 18 to…
(JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview that the Western Wall belongs to Israel and Israel’s capital should be in Jerusalem — regardless of what U.S. policy says. Haley made the comments during an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody in the wake of reports that a Trump…
(JTA) — Gravestones were toppled at a Philadelphia-area cemetery, the second such vandalism in the area this year. Five headstones were discovered knocked off of their bases at the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of northeastern Philadelphia. The gravestones were not defaced by graffiti, according to the news website Philly.com. Police reportedly do…
The report that slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks sounded like a bombshell. But it took only a few hours for the tale to be debunked as just the latest conspiracy theory surrounding the still-unsolved 2016 murder. The source for the story, a private investigator ostensibly working for Rich’s family, suggested…
Israeli intelligence experts are gravely concerned that President Donald Trump’s sharing of classified information with Russia may have compromised an Israeli agent. The New York Times, citing a current and a former U.S. official, reported on Tuesday that the information Trump divulged came from an Israeli intelligence asset based in Islamic State-held territory in Syria….
(JTA) — An Israeli agent undercover inside the Islamic State has been put at risk by U.S. President Donald Trump’s disclosure of classified information to Russia, ABC News reported. The spy had provided Israel with intelligence about an Islamic State, or ISIS, plan to cause the crash of a passenger jet on the way to…
(JTA) — An unprecedented exhibit centered on the image, history and symbolism of the seven-branched menorah has opened in Rome. Titled “Menorah: Cult, History and Myth,” the exhibition is a joint project of the Vatican Museum and the Rome Jewish Museum — the first time the two museums have cooperated in this way. It will run…
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