(JTA) — An animal rights group will appeal the decision of a federal judge in California which dismissed a lawsuit against a synagogue for holding a kapparot ceremony, a pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung by its legs and then slaughtered. Los Angeles District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. earlier this month…
Israeli police questioned U.S. casino magnate Sheldon Adelson on Thursday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a law enforcement source said. Netanyahu is suspected in two separate criminal cases of abuse of office. He denies wrongdoing in both cases and charges have yet to be brought against him. The…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and satanic graffiti was spray-painted throughout a park in central Florida. The graffiti at the part in Wedgefield, Florida, was discovered by parents on Wednesday morning. Orange County officials said that park employees on Wednesday worked to clean and cover up the graffiti, under a local policy to remove defacement of public…
NEW YORK (JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish paramedic is suing a New York hospital for discrimination for not allowing her to wear skirts. In the civil suit filed Tuesday, Hadas Goldfarb says she was offered a job as a paramedic at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in 2015, but was terminated amid orientation after refusing to comply with the…
President Trump calls her “third-rate,” “sad” and “totally in the Hillary circle of bias,” but New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is still the commander-in-chief’s go-to journalist when he needs to share, vent, or complain. An extensive Elle magazine profile of Haberman crowned the 43-year-old reporter as the must-read source for anyone interested in “what…
At least one company is pulling advertising from Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity’s eponymous program amid controversy over Hannity’s promotion of a conspiracy theory involving a dead Democratic National Committee staffer, BuzzFeed reported Wednesday. A spokesman for Cars.com told BuzzFeed that they were pulling ads from “Hannity” amid a campaign to pressure advertisers to…
Senator Bernie Sanders has just three words for President Trump’s proposed replacement for Obamacare: What a disgrace. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 24, 2017 The senator tweeted his statement on Wednesday just moments after the Congressional Budget Office revealed that the American Health Care Act, which would undo much of Obama’s Affordable Care Act legislation,…
Israel altered how it shares intelligence with the United States after President Trump shared highly-classified Israeli information to Russia officials, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman revealed Wednesday. “I can confirm that we did a spot repair and that there’s unprecedented intelligence cooperation with the United States,” Liberman said in an interview with Army Radio. Liberman…
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper owned by presidential adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner is resigning to take a job at a consulting firm with ties to the Clinton family. Ken Kurson announced in a memo to staff on Wednesday that he was leaving The New York Observer to join TENEO as a senior managing director, CNN.com reported….
(JTA) — A federal appeals court has rejected the request by Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy for Israel, to lift restrictive parole conditions. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued the judgment on Wednesday, a week after hearing arguments. The parole terms issued upon Pollard’s release from a federal prison in November…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent condolences on behalf of the Israeli people to British Prime Minister Theresa May for the terror attack at a pop concert in Manchester. Netanyahu, speaking by phone with May on Wednesday evening, said Israel was ready to extend all necessary assistance to their joint war against terrorism,…
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