Walmart’s online store was until recently selling a “Got Hitler?” mug. Styled in the same font as the famous “Got Milk?” phrase, the “Got Hitler?” mugs were being marketed through a third party vendor on the Walmart site, JM Holdings. After the web site Vocativ reported that Walmart’s online store was selling the cups, the…
The race for chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee is getting tighter with Labor Secretary Tom Perez planning a run. This could spell trouble for Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, once considered the leading candidate for the job. Perez, who plans to announce his candidacy on Thursday, already enjoys the backing of 10 local party chairs….
A group of European rabbis awarded Spain’s king a prize this week for his country’s efforts to bring Jewish life back to Spain. The Conference of European Rabbis, an Orthodox group, presented the award to King Felipe VI in a ceremony at a royal palace outside of Madrid. The award was in recognition of a…
Even as the “alt-right” revels in the election of Donald Trump, most Americans still don’t know about the white identity politics movement, finds a recent poll from the Pew Research Center. The “alt-right” is the label preferred by contemporary white nationalists. 17% of Americans said they knew “a lot” about the “alt-right”; 54% of United…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israel Police officer was stabbed in the head by a Palestinian assailant in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. A boy, 12, from eastern Jerusalem, also said he was injured in the head by the assailant although it is not clear to police how it happened. He was…
In Israel, temperatures are dropping and people are plugging in electric heaters to warm chilly apartments. In other words, its Krembo time. The Mallomar-like Krembo is a foil wrapped two-inch tower of vanilla or mocha marshmallow cream coated with chocolate atop a biscuit. It makes its first appearance after the High Holy Days and remains…
Lodewijk Asscher isn’t one to mince words when it comes to hatred on social media. The descendant of Holocaust survivors who is running for prime minister sent a shot across the bow of far right leader Geert Wilders with a 735-word Facebook post titled “Disrespectful Dog.” “Many of you possess a keen historical insight,” Asscher…
– Police in western France found bullet holes in the mailbox of a synagogue in Western France. Police, who are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, were twice called over the past three weeks to the synagogue of Le Havre, the news website Paris-Normandie reported. The first set of bullet holes was discovered in the…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Wednesday named company veterans David Solomon and Harvey Schwartz presidents and co-chief operating officers to succeed Gary Cohn, who is set to head the White House National Economic Council. The Wall Street investment bank said Chief Information Officer R. Martin (Marty) Chavez would replace Schwartz, who was the company’s chief…
Fania Blakay and her brother Gennadi Band thought their Polish family perished in the Holocaust. So did Henia Moskowitz and Rywka Patchnik. Turns out all four Polish cousins were wrong — and they held a joyous reunion to prove it, JTA reported. “I am deeply moved and very happy,” Blakay said, according to a statement…
“This Jew says no to white nationalism,” one sign read. “Silence is akin to consent,” another said, quoting the Talmud. A third displayed a lyric from a Yiddish song: “We will outlive them.” The signs, along with chants like “Donald Trump, it’s your fault; Stephen Bannon, oy gevalt!” were not only directed against Bannon, the…
