WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The American Jewish Committee returned to Warsaw after eight years. AJC on Monday opened a new office in the city dedicated to serving Poland and six other Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. “Welcome home!” Andrzej Folwarczny, founder of the Forum for Dialogue and recipient…
Almost a decade after losing billions of his clients’ money in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, hedge fund financier Charles Murphy leaped to his death Monday from the twentieth floor of Midtown Manhattan’s luxury Sofitel Hotel, in what is being described as a suicide. “We are extremely saddened by this news. Charles was an extremely gifted…
If you love “This American Life” or “Serial,” cancel your evening plans: This morning, the creators of the two popular podcasts released a new podcast, “S-Town” — and every episode is now available. That’s right, you can binge the Alabama-set true-crime story right now. The producers have kept most details of the show under wraps,…
The five women from the Westboro Baptist Church who protested outside of Yeshiva University on Monday, March 27 did not hold any signs related to gays being “doomed,” as they have done in previous demonstrations. Instead, all of their signs attacked the Jews, claiming they had “killed Jesus.” The Church members also sang, “wrath will…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbinic head of a religious Zionist pre-military yeshiva in the West Bank who said that the Israeli army drives female soldiers “crazy” and upsets their Jewishness acknowledged that he was wrong to denigrate female solders. Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, who runs the Bnei David academy in the Eli settlement, in a letter to…
Israeli tourists ran into a group of Iranians on a hike in Georgia. So how did the two groups address the diplomatic tensions between their nations? Watch this clip from Israeli news site 0404 to find out: Contact Naomi Zeveloff at [email protected] or on Twitter @naomizeveloff
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentina´s President Mauricio Macri along with the Argentinean-born Queen Maxima of the Netherlands visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. During the visit, Argentina signed two cooperation agreements to spread Anne Frank´s lessons to Argentinean young people and to promote dialogue and tolerance. Heads of state visiting the Netherlands rarely make…
(JTA) — A bipartisan bill would increase the federal penalty for bomb threats and other threats of violence against religious institutions and ensure such acts can be prosecuted as a hate crime. The bipartisan Combating Anti-Semitism Act of 2017, introduced Monday by Reps. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., and Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., comes after a rash of 150 bomb…
A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine disclosed that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, last year — but the Kremlin dismissed the meeting as “routine.” A U.S. Senate committee investigating suspected Russian interference in the election wants to interview…
Half a dozen Westboro Baptist Church members protested outside Yeshiva University Monday, holding signs that proclaimed the Jews killed Jesus. The Westboro Baptist Church @WBCFliers visited Yeshiva University @YUNews this morning. pic.twitter.com/KfOC9AyO2h — Simone Somekh (@simonsays101) March 27, 2017 Westboro Baptist Church is based in Topeka, Kansas and is known for its virulent speech against…
Leftwing Israeli parliament member Tamar Zandberg is facing blowback in Israel for appearing at a protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Zandberg, a lawmaker with the leftwing Meretz party, spoke to If Not Now, the anti-occupation group that organized a large demonstration outside of AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington, DC on March…
דאָס ציגעלע האָבן זיי באַהאַלטן אין אַן אײַנקויף־זאַק.
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