MONTREAL —Hasidic Jews in Montreal’s tony Outremont borough are vowing to go to court after a referendum upheld a bylaw banning new places of worship. “It’s very disappointing,” Hasidic leader Abraham Ekstein told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The bylaw, passed last year, was upheld Sunday by a vote of 1,561 to 1,202. The basis for…
(JTA) — European far-right politicians were quick to hold up Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election as a harbinger of their own impending triumphs. Marine Le Pen, head of France’s far-right party, said that what Europeans call “the Trump effect” — that is, right-wing nationalism fueled by anger toward political elites and mistrust…
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed alarm on Monday over “hateful speech” at a white nationalist meeting over the weekend, and a restaurant apologized for hosting the group after a woman tweeted a picture of herself making a Nazi salute. The National Policy Institute, a think tank that is part of the alt-right movement that…
Jeffrey Rackover, a Fifth Avenue diamond merchant who caters the stars, is cutting his losses on adopted son James Rackover, accused last week of committing a violent murder in Manhattan last week. “Jeffrey is devastated, inconsolable,” a close friend told DNAInfo after James Rackover, a 22-year-old with a troubled past, was held on a $3…
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has forbidden all government ministers from contacting the new administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. A letter distributed to all cabinet members on Monday instructed government ministers to request permission to make contact through the Prime Minister’s Office or the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The letter was first reported…
Donald Trump’s incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus refused on Sunday to dismiss the possibility of establishing a registry of Muslims visiting and immigrating to the United States. “Look, I wouldn’t rule out anything, but we’re not going to have a registry based on a religion,” Priebus, the present chair of the Republican National Committee…
— Switzerland’s Jews need to fund their own security costs even though doing so is really the government’s responsibility, a Swiss government agency said in a report on anti-Semitism. The unusual assertion came in a report published last week by the Swiss interior ministry’s Service for the Fight against Racism. It prompted a mixed reaction…
— The wrestler known as Goldberg shocked the wrestling world at his first WWE match in 12 years by defeating his longtime rival Brock Lesnar in a minute and 26 seconds. The crowd at Toronto’s Air Canada Center chanted Goldberg’s name after the dominant win on Sunday night. Lesnar had not been defeated in over…
— Speakers at an event of the white supremacist think tank the National Policy Institute quoted Nazi propaganda and said the media protects Jewish interests. The day-long event of speeches and panel discussions attended by about 200 people was held Saturday in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported Monday that the final speaker of…
— Hundreds gathered for an anti-hate rally at a vandalized Brooklyn park named in memory of the late Beastie Boys singer Adam Yauch. The rally Sunday at the Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn came after the park was defaced with swastikas and the message “Go Trump.” Yauch, known as MCA, died in 2012 at age 47…
NEW YORK — Stephen Bannon, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, did not attend a dinner hosted by the Zionist Organization of America, which had publicized his intention to attend. The ZOA had publicized that Bannon would attend the Sunday evening dinner in New York, which was attended by politicians from Israel and the United States…
