(JTA) — Two fires at a Las Vegas Chabad building prompted an arson investigation by the Las Vegas Fire Department. A car was set ablaze Monday night in the parking lot of Chabad of Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Earlier on Monday evening, a trash can was set on fire in a restroom…
(JTA) — Hundreds of anti-Semitic fliers were dropped in front of homes in Bozeman, Montana. The fliers featuring a photo of a haredi Orthodox rabbi calling for a white genocide were distributed over the weekend, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. There does not appear to be such a person as the rabbi named in the…
(JTA) — A former staff attorney for Butler County in southern Ohio filed a lawsuit alleging that she had to use vacation time to observe Jewish holidays. Kimberly Edelstein in a lawsuit filed against Butler County, and its judge, prosecutor and assistant prosecutor, said she was not able to use official holiday time off in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — About 20 cars were vandalized in eastern Jerusalem and in the Galilee area of northern Israel in what are being investigated as anti-Arab hate crime attacks. The cars were vandalized in eastern Jerusalem overnight in a swath running from the Arab Shuafat neighborhood to the haredi-Orthodox neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo. The damage…
Former Israel ambassador Dan Shapiro is urging President Trump to make a stop at Rawabi, the new gleaming middle class Palestinian city outside Ramallah, when he visits the Holy Land later this month. Idea: Aides say on his trip, Trump wants to highlight “efforts to unlock the potential of the Palestinian economy.” He should visit…
Congressman Eliot Engel has criticized a State Department video announcing Trump’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia for not mentioning that Trump will visit Israel on the same trip. In his announcement, Trump listed the countries he will be visiting, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican. But the video aimed at the Saudi audience cut…
When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a “vile and filthy people,” its members were frightened enough they asked for and got extra police protection. The 42-year-old mosque was far from alone. The letter it received was one of 2,213 anti-Muslim bias incidents in the…
Ron Lauder, cosmetics heir and president of the World Jewish Congress, prepped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his meeting with President Trump last week, a move that irked right-wingers and may have even led them to ruin the leaders’ dinner plans, according to a report in Israel’s Maariv newspaper. The report said that Lauder’s office…
PARIS (JTA) — French Jews may have voted en masse for Emmanuel Macron in the final round of France’s presidential elections, but that doesn’t make him their dream president. Like many other supporters of the 39-year-old former investment banker, who on Sunday became the youngest French president in recent history, Jews voted for Macron mainly to block…
A delegation of Hasidic Jews and discussed with them issues including the protection of Jewish cemeteries in Europe and combating child sex abuse. The pontiff held a 45-minute audience at the Vatican on Monday with the group, which was led by Rabbi Edgar Gluck. A video on the Yeshiva World News website and also posted to YouTube…
“The big advantage of whispering sweet nothings in your love’s ear over texting,” renowned feisty sex and relationship expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer tweeted on May 8, “is that no Russian can hack your communications.” The big advantage of whispering sweet nothings in your love’s ear over texting is that no Russian can hack your communications….
וואָלט דער אָפּרוף געווען אַנדערש, ווען דער ציל פֿון די טעראָריסטן וואָלט ניט געווען ייִדן, נאָר אַן אַנדער גרופּע?
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