(JTA) — For Princeton’s Spencer Weisz, the Ivy League’s Player of the Year, his tweet said it all: “We’ve been waiting to wear our dancing shoes! #LetsDance #16-0.” Weisz, a senior forward and a Maccabiah Games gold medalist, played a crucial role in powering the Tigers to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament that starts this week…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Amy Krouse Rosenthal published more than 30 works in her too-short lifetime, including a few best-selling children’s books. But she has perhaps become best known for a heart-rending essay that appeared in The New York Times last week, in which she described her husband of 26 years, Jason Rosenthal, in the…
Congressmen Ted Deutch and his furry friend Virgil took to Twitter today for an important announcement: There’s a new bipartisan bill in Congress aimed at preventing cruelty to animals. Congressman Ted Deutch and Congressman Lamar Smith reintroduced the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act today, a bill which would strengthen a 2010 law that…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s adviser on international relations, is touring Israel and the Palestinian areas to gauge attitudes to peacemaking and there will likely not be any developments from the trip, a Trump administration spokesman said. “He’s really there to listen to both sides and how they perceive getting to a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Effigies of haredi Orthodox soldiers were hung in the Jerusalem haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim. One of the effigies, which were hung by their necks, had a sign reading “hardak out.” Hardak is a derogatory term for haredi men who serve in the army. Police removed the effigies, surrounded by jeering crowds, and…
Conservative Jewish commentator and former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro defended Iowa Congressman Steve King Monday after he tweeted a xenophobic comment embraced by white supremacists. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) wrote Sunday, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with…
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a Chicago memoirist, children’s book author, and joyful prankster died early this morning from ovarian cancer, her agent has confirmed, just 10 days after her New York Times Modern Love essay “You Might Want to Marry My Husband” went viral. The essay was structured as a dating profile for Jason, Rosenthal’s husband…
Correction Appended The case of Jewish real estate developers charged with voter fraud in the Catskills will continue through the federal court system this week, a legacy of dismissed U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Shalom Lamm and co-conspirators Kenneth Nakdimen and Volvy Smilowitz are accused of federal voter fraud conspiracy in a bid to elect public…
Croatia rejected on Monday the allegations made in a lawsuit that demands billions in compensation to people held in concentration camps on Croatian territory during World War Two. The Ustasha regime ruled Croatia as allies of Nazi Germany from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945. Several concentration camps operated on its territory,…
A company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, stands to receive over $400 million from China’s Anbang Insurance Group, that is investing in a Manhattan building owned by the Kushners, Bloomberg reported. Details of the agreement are being circulated to attract additional investors, Bloomberg reported on Monday. (http://bloom.bg/2nm6PwG) The building, a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A delegation from the Union for Reform Judaism had a “wide-ranging and candid conversation” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, the group said. The delegation, led by the URJ’s president, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, met with Netanyahu for an hour on Sunday, according to a statement issued by the congregational arm of the movement at the…
