A new addition to the Harry Potter saga is about to hit the shelves — this time in the form of a haggadah. Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg of Queens, New York is set to release his “Unofficial Hogwarts Haggadah” within the next two weeks. “The entire Harry Potter series, and each book, contains many of the key…
Bernie Sanders is famous for his norm-core look, with his ill-fitting suits and rumpled shirts. But that hasn’t stopped one design house from using the socialist icon as inspiration for its new high-heels, debuting at Paris Fashion Week a shoe that incorporates the logo of the Vermont senator’s campaign. The Balenciaga high heel is red…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described House Republicans’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare as a plan that would make health insurance worse and drag women back to medieval times. “Trumpcare will make health insurance in America measurably worse in just about every way and likely leave more Americans uninsured,” the New York senator said,…
(JTA) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer condemned a new wave of bomb threats against Jewish sites, including Jewish community centers and Anti-Defamation League offices. “I want to acknowledge that there’s been an additional wave of threats to Jewish community centers and Anti-Defamation League offices,” Spicer told reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday….
As vandals target Jewish cemeteries and community centers, Jews at the University of San Diego have also been on the receiving end of hate crimes, with numerous swastikas discovered on campus over the past month. “Defacing our facilities with this deplorable symbol is hateful and reprehensible, and the incidents are being investigated,” the university’s dean…
(JTA) — Director Steven Spielberg has signed on to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a film about the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Hanks will star as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep as publisher Kay Graham, who challenged the federal government in the Supreme Court over the right…
Another round of threats against Jewish community institutions across the United States forced the facilities to be evacuated on Tuesday, the groups said. Threats were phoned in or emailed to JCCs in New York, Wisconsin and Florida overnight and early on Tuesday. The threats have continued even after a federal investigation of phoned and emailed…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The parents of lone soldiers serving in the Israeli military are being offered subsidized airline tickets to the Jewish state. The tickets are being offered by El Al Israel Airlines and Nefesh B’Nefesh, which supports immigrants to Israel. They are available from any gateway city served by El Al to families who…
American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson may be questioned by Israeli police in the ongoing corruption investigation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Army Radio reported today. According to the report, Adelson, who owns the pro-Netanyahu free daily newspaper Israel Hayom, would be questioned in what Israeli police call “Case 2,000.” That is a probe over…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli military prosecutors filed an appeal of the 18-month jail sentence of an Israeli soldier who shot a downed Palestinian terrorist. Elor Azaria, 20, who was convicted of manslaughter in January in an Israeli military court, was sentenced last month by a panel of three judges at the Israel Defense Forces headquarters…
White nationalist and supremacist groups are ramping up efforts on American college campuses — in what the Anti-Defamation League is calling “unprecedented outreach efforts.” As of March 6, there have been 107 “white supremacist fliering incidents” on American college campuses since the school year began in September, according to a blog post from the ADL….
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