At least 170 Jewish gravestones were knocked over in the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery near St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday. Local police from University City would not call this a hate crime immediately but they are reviewing surveillance footage and there is evidence that the destruction was the work of an organized group, not an…
President Trump’s election is having a direct effect on the ground in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, as evidenced by an uptick in Palestinian home demolitions in East Jerusalem. According to a report in Haaretz, a source in the Jerusalem municipality’s office linked the demolitions to a change in government restrictions with the arrival of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The personal collection of Holocaust documentation of survivor and historian Prof. Yaffa Eliach was dedicated at the Yad Vashem memorial and museum in Jerusalem. Eliach dedicated her life to documenting the events and victims of the Holocaust, particularly the pre-World War II life in her birthplace, the Lithuanian town of Eishishok. Eliach…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said he entered into negotiations to join a unity government a year ago on the basis of a secret regional peace initiative bring negotiated at the time. Herzog, head of the Zionist Union, told American Jewish leaders on Monday that he demanded a total freeze on settlement…
The Vatican and Rome’s Jewish museum will jointly host an unprecedented exhibition on the menorah, the ancient symbol of Judaism, and try to put to rest legends on the fate of one candelabra missing for 15 centuries. The May 15-July 23 exhibition, which Vatican and Jewish officials presented on Monday, will be held simultaneously in…
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — The JCC of Krakow has received a $500,000 grant from the New York City-based Eric and Erica Schwartz Family Foundation, the largest single grant awarded to a Polish Jewish organization in the last 20 years, The funds will support the creation of an Early Childhood Center at JCC Krakow located in…
(JTA) — At least 10 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with bomb threats on Monday, for the fourth time in five weeks. The threats have been called in to JCCs across the country, according to Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network — an affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North…
Adolf Hitler’s personal phone has sold at auction for a whopping $243,000. The “weapon of mass destruction,” which the Nazi Fuhrer used to order invasions and direct the war effort, was sold on behalf the son of an American general. “I certainly won’t miss it,” the seller Ranulf Rayner, 82, told CNN. “It’s a fairly…
Some 27 letters written in urine by Polish women inmates to report on gruesome medical experiments performed on them by Nazi concentration camp doctors have been given to a small museum in Poland to be preserved. The letters, which informed the world about the deadly experiments made on 74 women at the Ravensbrueck camp in…
President Trump shocked millions (of those still capable of being shocked by him) when he expressed outrage at a weekend rally about a supposed terror attack in Sweden. Some thought he was confusing the Scandinavian country with the Pakistani city of Sehwan in Pakistan where a terror attack killed scores. Turns out he was just…
(JTA) — The San Francisco city supervisor has demanded a personal apology from the city’s mayor for a text the mayor sent to his top staff people comparing Aaron Peskin to the Gestapo. In a private group text, Mayor Ed Lee used the word “gestapo” to describe legislation backed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is…
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