For the first time, the Canadian government has introduced criminal charges against a company for falsely claiming that its products were kosher. The company Creation Foods and its vice-president Kefir Sadiklar have been accused by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency of sending non-kosher cheddar cheese to Jewish summer camps in 2015 with forged documents that…
(JTA) — FBI Director James Comey reportedly misstated the involvement of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her now-estranged husband Anthony Weiner in the email scandal his office investigated during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey said that Abedin was forwarding hundreds of thousands of emails, some with classified information, to her husband to print…
The Georgia special election in which Democrat Jon Ossoff seeks to nab a solid Republican House seat will be the most expensive Congressional race in history, Politico reported Saturday. Ossoff, a former Congressional staffer and documentary producer, has received heavy nationwide support. So has his opponent, former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, whom he…
(JTA) — A death threat was among the anti-Semitic graffiti found on the Georgetown University campus in a public restroom next to the campus Jewish center. The graffiti was discovered Saturday morning next to the Makóm Jewish gathering space in the Leavey student center of the Washington, D.C., school, The Hoya student newspaper reported. The…
The Queens Chamber of Commerce participated in the Queens Day in Albany event on Monday, May 8th. Over 300 participants travelled to Albany to receive proclamations from both the Assembly and State Senate and meet with many of the elected officials from all the different areas comprising Queens and the other boroughs of New York….
Jeff Kwatinetz was Steve Bannon’s partner during the White Houses adviser’s stint as a Hollywood financier. Now, the Jewish producer and talent manager is speaking out in defense of his ex-pal. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Kwatinetz, who identifies as liberal and a Bernie Sanders supporter, said that he had never heard a racist word…
Herman Epstein, a notorious Brooklyn slumlord, was sentenced to up to six years in prison after being found guilty of bribing city officials to avoid making necessary repairs — and threatening tenants to force them to move. He even told one tenant he would spread rumors about her engaging in incest if she didn’t get…
The blunt Chinese sales pitch by Jared Kushner’s sister Nicole Meyer brought a barrage of bad press to the Kushner-Trump family. It also raised, once again, questions about the potential conflicts of interest Kushner faces as a top aide to the president who is also a real estate businessman. In her pitch, Meyer and representatives…
(JTA) — Do we have Palestinian rock throwers to thank for the fidget spinner? The inventor of the ubiquitous stress-reducing toy says she came up with the idea during a trip to Israel in the 1980s, during the First Intifada, as a way to distract the “young boys throwing rocks at police officers.” Catherine Hettinger…
(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…
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