(JTA) — Three men were indicted in Belgium for chanting in Arabic at an anti-Israel rally about a site where Muslims are believed to have massacred Jews centuries ago. Two organizers of the Antwerp rally in July 2014 and a participant had cried out “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning,” the Gazet…
Jake Tapper, CNN’s senior Washington correspondent, had a succinct response to Steve Bannon’s demand that the media “keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.” No. .@jaketapper: Reminder that the president’s top aide just told NYT that the press should keep its mouth shut. No. https://t.co/v88feqWbib pic.twitter.com/EYw5Pc2faM — The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) January…
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has announced that he will vote against Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, making it unlikely that the former Exxon Mobil chief executive will receive bipartisan support for his appointment. Schumer blasted his record on a host of issues. “Mr. Tillerson’s refusal to back new sanctions on Russia, and his…
(JTA) — Responding to a rising number of interfaith families, Conservative synagogues will be voting on a measure from their umbrella body that would allow congregations to admit non-Jews as members. Currently, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s Standards for Congregational Practice restrict synagogue membership to Jews. But the new language, which congregations will vote on in March,…
President Donald Trump issued a statement on Friday’s Holocaust Remembrance Day that left some scratching their heads due to its omission of any reference to Jews. “It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Holocaust,” the statement from the White House Press…
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, and as the number of survivors steadily dwindles, there’s a heartwarming documentary out there that follows the life of one of them, the nonagenarian Sonia Warshawski. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri and still drives on her own and runs a tailor shop. Joie de vivre permeates “Big Sonia,” from Warshawski’s…
The White House influence of Stephen Miller and his ally Steve Bannon has “astonished” insiders, according to an unsourced report in Washington journalist Mike Allen’s morning newsletter Axios AM. Miller, who is Jewish, wrote President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech with Bannon, according to Allen’s report. The speech revived Trump’s use of the phrase “America First,”…
In 1939, U.S. officials turned away a passenger liner packed with 900 desperate Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Denied rescue, the ship turned back to Europe, where hundreds of the refugees were slaughtered in Nazi death camps. In honor of today’s observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish educator and activist Russel Neiss set up…
WASHINGTON (JTA)— The FBI is investigating a rash of bomb threats to Jewish community centers as a hate crime and not a terrorist threat. Agents briefed Jewish community leaders across the country through a call Thursday organized by the Anti-Defamation League. The agents said the calls targeted over 30 JCCs in 20 states this month…
Angry Staff Officer, a popular twitter account of about 11,000 followers, tweeted on Wednesday that as a Jew, he stands with Muslims against discrimination — and found himself surrounded by supporters. He wrote his statement the same day that President Donald Trump’s draft executive order that would place a ban on immigrants from Muslim-majority countries…
BERLIN (JTA) — A schoolbook publisher has apologized for using an anti-Semitic illustration in a text about the euro crisis. The book will not be removed from German schools’ bookshelves, however. Based in Berlin, the Klett-Verlag publisher told Vice magazine blogger Philipp Frohn that the “regrettable mistake” would be corrected in a future edition, which will not come…
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