(JTA) — Hundreds of protesters attended a demonstration against hate crimes in Philadelphia following the recent vandalism at a Jewish cemetery and hate crimes around the country. The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, organized the rally, held Thursday under the banner “Stand Against Hate,” following the toppling of over 100 headstones that were recently discovered damaged…
(JTA) — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, attended a controversial meeting in December between a Russian diplomat and former national security advisor Michael Flynn. The New York Times reported the story and the White House confirmation. The meeting between Kushner, Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak lasted 20 minutes at Trump Tower…
(JTA) — Following the recent wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and the vandalism of two Jewish cemeteries, some Muslims on Twitter are offering to help guard Jewish sites. The tweeters, including some veterans, said they would volunteer to protect JCCs, cemeteries and synagogues, the Huffington Post first reported. This latest show of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David Rubinger, the Israeli photographer who took the iconic photo of Israeli paratroopers standing in front of the Western Wall after its capture in the Six-Day War, has died. Rubinger, whose photos chronicled much of the history of the Jewish state, died Thursday. He was 92. Rubinger was awarded the Israel Prize…
“The Big Bang Theory” cast sticks together. With contract negotiations underway for the hit CBS show, Variety reports that the five original cast members have allegedly offered to take a pay cut to ensure that both Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch get raises. Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, and Kunal Nayyar each…
A Unitarian Universalist church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan found itself the victim of vandalism with two swastikas carved into its front doors on Tuesday. The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York on Central Park West and 76th Street voted on February 5th “to offer short term sanctuary to undocumented…
Basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire, a star forward for the Israeli team Hapoel Jerusalem, apologized for comments which were taken to be anti-gay. “I want to apologize for my offensive comments against the LGBT community. These remarks were taken from a larger interview where a reporter was asking me hypothetical questions, and all my answers had…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, was vandalized, the third such incident in the United States in less than two weeks. Five headstones were found toppled Thursday morning at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, in the city in western New York, according to News 10 NBC…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders asked David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, whether he would back using funds earmarked for assistance to Israel to help rebuild the Gaza Strip. Sanders in a letter he handed Friedman after they met Wednesday also asked whether he thinks the tax-exempt status of…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan House task force on anti-Semitism is urging President Donald Trump to set up an interagency mechanism to tackle the issue in the wake of waves of bomb threats against Jewish institutions and several cemetery vandalism attacks. “Similar to the interagency task force you proposed for dismantling criminal cartels, this instrument,…
In a rare spot of irony amid the potential for tragedy in the threats leveled against Jewish community centers nationwide, Dallas’s JCC didn’t respond to a recent threat because it landed in the organization’s spam folder, only to be discovered when police alerted the JCC about a possible threat. “That’s right,” Dallas News columnist Robert…
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