(JTA) — A Baltimore Jewish man was arrested for allegedly committing a range of sexual abuse offenses. Yosef Goldman, 35, was taken into custody at his home on Monday by city police. Charges include child sex abuse and first- and second-degree rape, Baltimore’s Fox 45 News reported. “The victim is a juvenile,” T.J. Smith, the…
(JTA) — A woman who wrote and distributed anti-Semitic fliers at a City Council meeting in Burlington, Vermont, will not be arrested and charged. Burlington Police said that distributing the fliers, which assert that Jews have destroyed the city led by Jewish Mayor Miro Weinberger, is not illegal. An investigation was opened, however, since the…
Ivanka Trump was reportedly confronted on a JetBlue flight Thursday morning by an irate fellow passenger who angrily told her: “Your father is ruining the country.” The soon-to-be first daughter was traveling to San Francisco with her three children and other relatives on the low cost airline when the other flier accosted her, TMZ reported….
(JTA) — Rabbi Alvin Kass, a New York Police Department chaplain for 50 years, was promoted to three-star chief — becoming the highest-ranking chaplain ever in the department. Kass, 80, received the promotion last week in honor of his half-century with the department. He currently serves as the NYPD’s chief chaplain, leading a staff of…
(JTA) — A man in his 70s is believed to the person who distributed American Nazi Party fliers in residential neighborhoods of Missoula, Montana, police there said. Mayor John Engen made the announcement during remarks at the Har Shalom synagogue on Tuesday as part of a news conference for an anti-hate campaign to show support…
Ben Shapiro, the rightwing podcast host and pundit, derided Lena Dunham for the comedian’s off-color remarks about abortion. “She wishes she could feel the solidarity and joy of having murdered a baby,” Shapiro said on the Wednesday edition of his program. “Democrats usually have the brains to cover up their enthusiasm for abortion.” He also…
(JTA) — A Donald Trump transition team spokesman denied a report that Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the president-elect’s designated national security adviser, had met with a leader of Austria’s far right. In a Thursday morning call with reporters, Jason Miller said Flynn had never met with Heinz-Christian Strache, who heads the Freedom Party.
Egypt postponed a U.N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel’s prime minister and U.S. president-elect Donald Trump urged Washington to veto it. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told Egypt’s U.N. mission to postpone the vote, which would have forced U.S….
The Alabama judge famous for installing a monument of the Ten Commandments outside his courthouse may soon be headed to Washington D.C. Judge Roy Moore, whose disregard for separation of church and state has drawn harsh criticism throughout his years on the state bench, is one of eight candidates interviewed so far by Alabama governor…
The City Council in Boulder, Colorado, voted to make the West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus its eighth international sister city. Its 7-2 vote last week came three years after a council decision against entering into a formal relationship with Nablus and years of heated debate over the issue. The council identified Nablus as being…
Israeli archaeologists have discovered new fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls in the Cave of the Skulls near the Dead Sea, Haaretz reported. The two tiny fragments, smaller than a square inch each, are too faded to make out the writing on them without extra analysis. They could be in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic or another language….
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