Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders came out swinging against the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel in an interview with Al Jazeera which aired on Wednesday. I asked @SenSanders about Palestine, the BDS movement targeting Israel, and whether he supports a one state solution pic.twitter.com/xOQmxMelFp — Dena Takruri (@Dena) May 3, 2017 Al Jazeera…
National Public Radio put a national spotlight Thursday morning on the Forward’s groundbreaking coverage of President Trump’s controversial aide Sebastian Gorka, crediting the paper with pushing the White House to the brink of ousting him. Framing the Forward as a kind of little Jewish paper that could, reporter David Folkenflik interviewed Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner about…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic fliers were posted at a gas station in Missoula, Montana. The fliers, which were discovered on Sunday morning, appeared to be distributed by a white supremacist group, according to local repots. They were taped to the gas pumps. Nothing else was vandalized. The fliers are similar to others found in Missoula shortly…
Israeli right-wingers lambasted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after his meeting with President Trump, deriding Abbas’s statements about making peace between Israelis and Palestinians as empty rhetoric. Shuli Moalem-Refaeli of the Jewish Home party said there would be no two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. “Only the obsession remains,” she said, according to the Jerusalem Post….
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Air Force’s annual Independence Day flyover Tuesday was an impressive display of Israel’s aerial ascendancy. But the pilots in the cockpits arguably saw the better show. Cruising at low altitude, they were treated to stunning views of Israel celebrating its 69th birthday at barbecues and beach parties held across the country, from the Negev…
(JTA) — France’s chief rabbi joined a Muslim and Christian faith leaders in an unusual endorsement of the centrist presidential candidate Emannuel Macron against the far-right hopeful Marine Le Pen. Haim Korsia’s office issued the endorsement Thursday, a day after a remarkably acrimonious televised debate between the two candidates ahead of the May 7 runoff. Titled “Call to…
(JTA) — Idra Novey, author of the novel “Ways to Disappear,” won the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She takes home $100,000 for winning the prize, which was announced Wednesday by the Jewish Book Council at a ceremony at New York’s Jewish Museum. Her book explores a translator’s search for a missing…
Persistent advocacy by right-of-center pro-Israel groups succeeded in impacting the agenda of President Trump’s meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday. At issue was the Palestinian Authority’s policy of providing funds to families of terrorists killed by Israeli forces and prisoners jailed in Israel on terrorism charges. The Israeli government has highlighted this issue…
The New York Yankees played the Toronto Blue Jays the evening of May 3 in Yankee Stadium, and because of a special promotion with Mastercard, some tickets were available for only $5. According to one Orthodox attendee, Samuel Weiss, these low prices have brought some unexpected traffic to the unofficial “Jewish Quarter” of the stadium:…
A Tennessee school district is investigating how a picture of two students dressed up as Nazis ended up in a school yearbook. The yearbook at Houston Middle School in Germantown, outside Memphis, showed two students wearing Hitler-type mustaches and hats with swastikas as part of a class called “Facing History and Ourselves” that covers the…
Shortly after being sworn in as a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, former NBA champion Ray Allen traveled to Poland this week visit the Auschwitz concentration camp and other Holocaust-related sites. Allen, one of the greatest shooters in basketball history, became passionate about Holocaust education after visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington…
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