Frances Bertetta, a 98-year-old woman from the San Francisco area, proved that it’s never too late to find your spiritual home — and a little luck doesn’t hurt. Bertetta originally fell in love with Judaism more than 70 years ago, when she attended the bar mitzvah of a friend’s son. Her love of Judaism was reignited…
(JTA) — The city of Fort Worth, Texas ended ties with a kayak rental company that posted Facebook messages ridiculing white women, Jews and Mexico. Fort Worth Kayak Adventures, which rents kayaks at the Fort Worth Nature Center, wrote the offensive Facebook post while trying to explain why it recently had to double its rates, NBC 5…
Gabe Pressman, an iconic New York television reporter whose career stretched back six decades, has reportedly died. He was 93. The NBC fixture’s wife said he died in his sleep Friday morning, the New York Daily News reported. The Bronx native was born in 1924 and served in the military during World War II before…
(JTA) — North Dakota’s oldest Jewish pioneer cemetery has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Sons of Jacob cemetery in Garske, in the state’s northeast, served a community of about 100 Jewish homesteaders from Eastern Europe. A group of descendants and locals applied to the state historical society for the national register; their application was approved by…
Israel has paid total compensation of $20 million to the families of the victims of an Israeli raid on a Turkish aid flotilla that killed 10 people in 2010, Turkish media quoted Turkey’s Finance Minister Naci Agbal as saying on Friday. The payment, which will be divided among the 10 families, comes some nine months…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. State Department’s office to monitor and combat anti-Semitism will be unstaffed as of July 1. A source familiar with the office’s workings told JTA that its remaining two staffers, each working half-time or less, would be reassigned as of that date. The Trump administration, which has yet to name an…
As President Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted their first congressional picnic on Thursday, Ivanka Trump was seen at the event, too – frolicking with her daughter on the White House lawn. In pictures from the event, the first daughter – married to Jared Kushner and the mother of three children – is seen…
(JTA) — The Reform movement sharply criticized a Republican bill in the Senate that would repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act and make severe cuts to Medicaid. On Thursday, Senate Republicans revealed a draft of a measure that would get rid of the legal requirement that most Americans have health coverage, as well as…
President Trump isn’t the only person within his administration sending out an unfiltered stream of messages on Twitter. Middle East adviser Jason Greenblatt seems to be following his lead, live-tweeting updates from a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week. Today I paid a shiva call to family of Hadas Malka. She was…
Chile police made public on Thursday archive documents relating to its investigation during World War II that uncovered how Nazi supporters in the country aided the Third Reich, including supplying information and plans to bomb mines. Young members of families of German descent in southern Chile underwent paramilitary training, while Nazi supporters in the country…
Ehud Barak warned on Wednesday that Israel was on a “slippery slope to apartheid” given the current state of play with Palestinians, in stark comments from the former prime minister and leader of the left-wing Labor Party. Speaking to the German station Deutsche Welle, Barak said that the growth of the Palestinian population would mean…
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