SYDNEY (JTA) — Leaflets denying the Holocaust were distributed on two university campuses in Melbourne, Australia. The leaflets distributed in recent days began appearing at the same time of the opening in the city of the movie “Denial,” which portrays the court battle between Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt and Holocaust-denier David Irving. The leaflets tell…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were listed among the 100 most influential people in 2017 according to Time magazine’s annual list. The daughter and son-in-law of the president are listed in the “Pioneers” section, which also includes late-night host Samantha Bee and pro-Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour. Wendi Murdoch, producer and former wife of Rupert Murdoch,…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Brazilian Jewish federation will provide educational support to a private school in the country’s northeast where a classroom was decorated with Nazi flags during a lesson on totalitarian regimes. Students and history teachers from Santa Emilia School in Recife will visit the Kahal Zur Israel temple, the first synagogue…
Secular Israel scored a point in the ongoing battle over religion in the public sphere on Wednesday when the Israeli High Court ruled that Tel Aviv mini markets could stay open on the Jewish Sabbath. Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai hailed the ruling in the Israeli press, saying the city “was free and will remain…
Israel’s state comptroller sharply critiqued the state’s treatment of Holocaust survivors ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Haaretz reported. In a report issued on Wednesday, state comptroller Yosef Shapira said that Israel had made it difficult for survivors to access the benefits that they are entitled to and some survivors were at risk of…
Israel’s left wing Meretz Party filed criminal suit against Yoav “The Shadow” Eliasi after the far-right social media personality posted an image to Facebook that painted the faction’s members as traitors. מפלגת מרצ הגישה הבוקר תלונה במשטרה נגד יואב אליאסי, הראפר הצל, בגין הסתה • @akivanovick pic.twitter.com/O4EKe0Qr9i — חדשות 10 (@news10) April 20, 2017 The…
Neo-Nazi and “alt-right” websites are memorializing Adolf Hitler’s birthday with memes, affectionate messages and more long-winded articles on the “peaceful origins” of the Nazis. “Happy birthday, Uncle Adolf. We’ve never missed you more than we miss you right now,” wrote Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. Hitler was born on April…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg credited his “Jewish mother” for giving him the willpower to turn down a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo! in 2006 – at a time when he was only 22 years old and the social network was only making $20 million in revenue. Mike Hoefflinger, Facebook’s former director of global business…
NEW YORK (JTA) — At first glance, The New York Times’ hiring of another white, Jewish male opinion-page columnist is anything but news. But the arrival of Bret Stephens, formerly the foreign affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal, may be especially resonant for American Jews. Stephens, 42, is the former editor of The Jerusalem…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York City Health Department said it cannot complete an investigation into who infected four infants with herpes through an Orthodox circumcision rite because the boys’ families will not identify the mohels. “Unfortunately, some in the community are resistant to sharing the name of the mohels,” Health Department spokesman Christopher…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Palestinian Federation of Chile threatened the country’s Jewish umbrella organization over its support of Israel’s decision to bar a Chilean boycott activist from entering the Jewish state. “We warn the Jewish leadership not to play with fire,” read a statement issued Monday in Spanish by the Palestinian federation regarding its…
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