The unknown callers who have phoned in dozens of bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers and Jewish day schools in recent weeks are using high-tech tools to foil investigators, outlets reported Tuesday. BuzzFeed News reported that the callers are able to hide the sources of their calls, and to mask their voices. And the New…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — A gunshot was fired through the window of an Indiana synagogue. The bullet hole was discovered late Monday in the window of a Sunday School classroom at Adath B’Nai Israel Temple in Evansville. The apparent attack was reported to police on Tuesday morning, according to reports. Rabbi Gary Mazo told the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man who stabbed a Jewish settler in his West Bank home was shot dead by the knifing victim. The resident of the Mor Farm outpost, in the south Hebron Hills, was lightly wounded in the Wednesday afternoon attack before using his gun to shoot the stabber. The knife attack and shooting…
Jehan Jaber, a Hebrew teacher from central Israel, has become an unlikely celebrity over there after the Arab teacher’s instructional song went viral on the Internet, drawing hundreds of thousands of views. “I did not put the video on the Web. I just filmed myself to see how I could improve my teaching methods. I…
Just days after winning Israel’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award for his philanthropic work, Amar’e Stoudemire found himself under fire for saying he would be uncomfortable playing basketball alongside an openly gay teammate. The comments were delivered in an interview with the Israeli website Walla Sport. Stoudemire was asked how comfortable he would feel with…
An Israeli soldier who was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for killing a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant appealed on Wednesday against a manslaughter conviction that could have sent him for jail for a maximum 20-year term. Three of Elor Azaria’s defense attorneys said after the appeal was announced that they were quitting. In a…
(JTA) — Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to investigate the recent desecration of a Jewish cemetery as a hate crime. Ellison, D-Minn., called on Sessions to designate the attack on the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, in…
A new profile of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warns that he reveres President Trump like Hitler — and Jones admits he considers the Statue of Liberty a “symbol of propaganda.” “When Jones talks about the president, it sounds as if he were talking about some Hitler-like Führer,” Der Spiegel reports. “He refers to the first…
Natan Sharanksy, the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, condemned anti-Semitism perpetrated by the right in the United States, linking it to anti-Zionism in the left. “If ever there was a line between the anti-Semitism of the far right and the anti-Israelism of the radical left, the demonization of Jews and the demonization of…
(JTA) — The Muslim Student Associations of Florida State and Florida A&M universities delivered bouquets of flowers to campus Jewish organizations and local synagogues. The flowers and the accompanying notes were meant to show solidarity at a time when both the Muslim and Jewish communities are under attack. The flowers were delivered to the Chabad and…
(JTA) — Spanish authorities dispensed with language and culture tests for elderly applicants for citizenship under the country’s law of return for Sephardi Jews. The Spanish justice ministry decided to offer the dispensation from tests on the Spanish language and heritage, which used to be necessary for all applicants for citizenship under the 2013 law,…
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