During a community meeting on police accountability in Chicago, a prominent African-American rabbi read the names of individuals killed by the police and chanted the traditional mourners kaddish in Hebrew. Rabbi Funnye, @JCUA_News Pres, reads names of Chgoans killed by police, chants mourner’s kaddish. #ReformCPD pic.twitter.com/FR4HtRJ16i — Aryeh Bernstein (@aryehlou) April 2, 2017 Rabbi Capers…
A federal judge will inquire further into whether former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey can represent a Turkish gold trader charged with conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman said at a hearing on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court that he will…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the prominent critic of Islam and women’s rights activist, likened the burqa to a swastika and an Islamic state flag in an interview with Australian television, after she canceled a visit to the country due to security concerns. “The burka that covers the face and that is really very much in your…
(JTA) — A homework assignment asking students in an upstate New York school district to argue for or against the Final Solution from the perspective of a Nazi official was withdrawn and will never be assigned again. High school students in an advanced class in Oswego County were assigned a project to pretend they were…
Activists with the Jewish group Jews for Racial & Economic Justice plan to join a Black Lives Matter march in New York City on Tuesday, protesting the city’s handling of a fatal 2012 police shooting. The march, organized by a New York-area Black Lives Matter group, demands accountability for police officers involved in the killing…
Roman Polanski must return to the United States to have a 40-year-old sexual assault case resolved, a Los Angeles County judge ruled on Monday. Polanski, 83, had sought assurance that if he returned to the United States to seek a final resolution to the case, which concerns his unlawful sexual contact with a minor in…
President Donald Trump’s bulldog lawyer Michael Cohen will serve as a deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee, the party announced. Cohen, for years one of Trump’s most staunch and loyal defenders, remains the president’s personal lawyer. He has stepped down from his former position as an attorney at The Trump Organization. In its…
President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, traveled with the top U.S. general to an Iraqi base just over 10 miles (16 km) from Mosul on Tuesday. Kushner was on the second day of a trip to Iraq as the guest of Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the…
Speaking on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings said that the slain civil rights leader would be dismayed to see a “white supremacist-type person” like Steve Bannon in the White House. The black Democrat said that King would have been proud to see former President Barack Obama elected president….
About a dozen white supremacists and members of skinheads gangs attended a rally in support of President Trump last month, saying they were there to provide “security” against left-wing demonstrators. At a small demonstration at the Indiana State House in Indianapolis on March 25, a significant portion of the ralliers were associated with the American…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An Israeli company has signed deals to produce drinking water — by extracting it from the air — in India and Vietnam, two countries that have long faced shortages. Water Gen inked an agreement last week with India’s second largest solar company to produce purified water for remote villages in the country. Earlier,…
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