(JTA) — An Indian imam in Singapore who was ordered deported after speaking against Jews and Christians during a sermon visited a synagogue to apologize for his remarks. Nalla Mohamed Abdul Jameel pleaded guilty last week in a state court to a charge of promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion or race…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — With talk of elections in the air, a new survey found that 70 percent of Israelis want a right-wing or center-right government. According to the latest monthly Peace Index, published Tuesday by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University, only 24 percent of the country prefers a left-wing or center-left government. The survey included…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A student council at a Columbia University college voted not to add a question asking about support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to a student referendum. The Columbia College council decided Monday that it would not include the resolution, which was proposed by the student group Apartheid Divest, to the ballot, according to The…
A project to find artifacts in soil taken from the Temple Mount has been placed on hold due to a lack of funding, the directors said on Sunday. Since the early 2000s, the Temple Mount Sifting Project has engaged over a quarter million volunteers from around the world to dig through soil to find fragments…
(JTA) — The University of California, Berkeley, received its biggest art grant ever to acquire the world’s largest collection by the Jewish-Polish artist Arthur Szyk and display it in a public institution for the first time. The $10.1 million gift from the Taube Philanthropies will be used to acquire 450 artworks — including paintings, drawings and sketches — according to a statement. The…
Comedian Sarah Silverman spoke out against Israel’s military occupation in a new Passover Haggadah timed with the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel conquered the West Bank. “Of all the people, Jews know the bitterness of being oppressed — and not being in our own country,” she wrote. “That’s what makes…
Rent in DC was never cheap, but Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump really splurged with their 7,000-square foot rental in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood. According to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Kushner and Trump are paying $15,000 in rent, a pretty significant amount for two federal government employees. However, with an estimated net worth…
David Friedman, sworn in last week as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel, has made his first staff pick, an assistant who also has an unorthodox background for a diplomatic job. Michael Wilner reports in the Jerusalem Post that Friedman’s pick for his chief of staff is Aryeh Lightstone, an Orthodox educator, who is also…
A New York City private day school serving Muslim students fired a publicly-funded English teacher for saying that the biblical story of Adam and Eve is “a myth,” the New York Post reported. Nina Kossman, a teacher with the city’s Department of Education assigned to teach English at the Razi School in Queens, was kicked…
More than a decade after they took study abroad courses with now-White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, eight alumni from the University of San Francisco are denouncing the controversial aide for his alleged Holocaust denial and disdain of Muslims. “Not many Americans have personally met Mr. Gorka, but we have. Not many people know who he…
Over the weekend, the New York Post sent out a series of unusual push alerts, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!” The alerts, which included a string of religious references, were quickly taken down. The website said their account had been “compromised.” So the @nypost got hacked pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x — Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2,…
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