(JTA) — The student government at Montclair State University reportedly voted down a resolution calling on the school to boycott Israel. The measure was defeated Wednesday by a vote of 11-1, with six abstentions. An earlier survey aimed at gauging student support for the measure found that 64 percent of students at the New Jersey…
The parents of Michael Kadar, the Israeli teenager accused of launched fake bomb threats at dozens of American Jewish institutions and starting his own Web-based document forgery and weapons sales operations, said their son was not responsible for his actions given severe neurological deficits. “We are so, so, sorry,” the two told the Times of…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A think tank that monitors Holocaust restitution issues reported that Poland is the only European Union nation that does not comply with an international understanding allowing for the return of Jewish property seized during World War II. The report by the European Shoah Legacy Institute notes that the countries of Western…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s population stands at 8.68 million on the eve of Israel Independence Day. The figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Thursday ahead of the nation’s 69th birthday on Monday show that the country’s population is growing by nearly 2 percent a year and that there are 10 times as…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Let’s imagine, for a moment, that the Nazis won World War II and occupied the United States. If that had happened, what would postwar American pop music have sounded like? Would music have even been created in the forms we know today? Those are just a few of the questions the…
Critics of the state rabbinate contend that restaurateurs who want the kosher seal of approval have only to open their wallets for the kosher inspectors in order to receive the coveted designation. Now, the rabbinate is taking steps to end the perception of corruption in its ranks by adopting a new set of standards, reported…
Richard Blumenthal demanded punishment for former national security adviser Michael Flynn after revelations that he received payments from the Russian government without pre-approving or disclosing that compensation, as required by federal law. Blumenthal: “powerful, mounting, incontrovertible evidence that there has been a violation of criminal law” by Flynn; “must be … prosecuted” pic.twitter.com/cK25d7Efgm — Bradd…
Across the archipelago of Indonesia, a more intolerant strain of Islam has risen in recent years, which may cause challenges for a small community of Jews here. Jews in this Muslim-majority country worship in secret, according to a recent AFP report, and can face faith-based intolerance. According to the AFP, the politics of Israel can…
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic poster was hung on the campus of Kansas State University on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The poster was discovered on the morning of April 24 on a telephone pole opposite Ahearn Field House, the local Manhattan Mercury reported. “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” said the poster, which contained a…
Lighting one of the 12 torches at the ceremony marking the opening of the country’s Independence Day celebrations is one of Israel’s highest honors, so this year’s decision to invite two Jewish American leaders to participate is proving controversial. Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Wiesenthal Center, were chosen to light…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A number of conservative Republicans in Congress have launched a pro-Israel caucus predicated on getting the Palestinians to acknowledge defeat. The co-chairs of the new Israel Victory Caucus, Reps. Bill Johnson of Ohio and Ron DeLantis of Florida, were among those on hand for Thursday’s launch. A number of other Republicans stopped…
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