WASHINGTON (JTA) — The race to lead the Democratic National Committee is nothing if not granular. Among the leading candidates Tom Perez, the former labor secretary, says “every ZIP code counts.” Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, touts his “50 plus” states strategy. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., talks about a “3,143 county strategy.”…
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Noah Roth likes to recall two moments from Israeli marathons in which he’s raced: a competitor in Jerusalem breezing by him in 2010 wearing all-black, haredi Orthodox garb but for a white athletic shirt; and a Russian woman on this city’s Allenby Street who last year handed sprinters cups of clear-liquid…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish conservator is facing a prison term for allowing the demolition of a former Jewish school building in central Poland. The Prosecutor’s Office in Konin this week charged the conservator, identified as Janusz T. in Polish news reports, for abuse of power by a public official. Janusz headed up a…
After vandals knocked over or damaged dozens of tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in Missouri, neo-Nazis say the incident is a “non-story” used as a bludgeon to attack President Trump, fitting what they view as a pattern of nefarious Jewish control of media and politics. “It’s obvious that this isn’t about some 100 year old…
(JTA) — Two Jewish brothers said they were abducted briefly and beaten by several men in suburban Paris in an incident that ended with one brother having his finger sawed off by an assailant. The brothers were hospitalized in what was described as a state of shock following the incident Tuesday night in Bondy. A…
MONTREAL (JTA) — McGill University’s Arts Undergraduate Society voted not to impeach Igor Sadikov for his “’punch a Zionist today” tweet earlier this month. On Wednesday evening, the society voted 22-16 with seven abstentions on the fate of Sadikov, also a member of the student legislative council at the Montreal university. Since his original post…
A third-grade teacher at a Jewish day school in Scottsdale, Arizona, resigned over Twitter posts in which she said that immigrants should be shot. Bonnie Godin Verne resigned Tuesday from the Pardes Jewish Day School, where she has taught for the past 12 years. Her personal Twitter account has been closed, though screen shots of…
Richard Spencer, the white nationalist and founder of the “alt-right” movement, was ejected from the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Comittee on Thursday. “They threw me out, it’s pathetic,” Spencer said, as he was escorted out of the Washington, D.C. venue. “I guess that they just discovered who I was, because the truth…
A newly approved British anti-Semitism law may pose legal hurdles for Israel Apartheid Week events on university campuses in the United Kingdom. This week, one university canceled a speech critical of Israel and other campuses are considering nixing events to avoid running afoul of the new law, according to the Jewish Chronicle. Israel Apartheid Week…
Shia LaBeouf’s anti-Trump art exhibit has been shut down after gunfire possibly related to the installation was reported near its site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “We have taken the stream down after shots were reported in the area,” the actor wrote Thursday morning on Twitter. “The safety of everybody participating in our project is paramount.”…
Jared Kushner’s fellow alumni of New Jersey’s Frisch School say Jewish values spurred them to speak out about the famous graduate and President Trump’s “Muslim ban.” Nava Friedman organized a petition calling on Kushner to shift course she told the New York Jewish Week. “Given the values that we learned at Frisch … it felt…
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