— A French court fined and gave a suspended prison sentence to a man who disseminated a picture of a quasi-Nazi salute being performed at a Jewish school. The Toulouse Appeals Court on Wednesday slapped Noël Gérard with a $15,000 fine and a 6-month suspended sentence for sharing in 2014 on social media a picture…
— Israel’s president and prime minister both paid tribute to the Canadian Jewish singer and poet Leonard Cohen, who died at the age of 82. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Cohen as “a talented artist and warmhearted Jew who loved the people of Israel and the state of Israel,” as he wrote on Twitter Friday….
— A photo found in Vienna suggests that Herschel Grynszpan, whose murder of a German diplomat in 1938 was used as a pretext to launch the Kristallnacht pogrom 78 years ago this week, may have survived World War II. It was previously believed that Grynszpan, a Jew of Polish background who was 17 when he shot…
LVIV, Ukraine — City workers in this western city suspended their digging at a former Jewish cemetery amid controversy over the unearthing of human remains at the site. The discovery of bones, including pieces of skull and limbs, occurred last week at the Old Jewish Cemetery of Lviv where diggers with heavy machinery excavated a 40-foot trench despite…
— Advisors to president elect Donald Trump issued conflicting statements on whether he will keep his campaign pledge to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Walid Phares, a senior foreign policy advisor to president elect Donald Trump, said during an interview for the BBC Thursday that, “Many president of the…
A Brooklyn volunteer neighborhood safety patrol member pleaded guilty on Wednesday to bribing police officers to expedite gun license applications, becoming the latest person to admit wrongdoing in a wide-ranging corruption probe in New York City. Alex Lichtenstein, a member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood patrol group, told a federal judge in Manhattan that he…
President-elect Donald Trump and Fed Chair Janet Yellen may emerge as unlikely allies as the incoming administration moves towards policies Federal Reserve officials have long advocated and the Fed contemplates a “high-pressure” economy to try to boost jobs and wages, at least in the short term. Top Trump adviser David Malpass on Thursday seemed to…
Palace intrigue has set in at the Donald Trump camp, as the Republican president-elect’s campaign aides and surrogates scramble for position in the next administration. Among the chatter is the rumor that son-in-law Jared Kushner could be the new White House chief of staff. According to Politico, while Trump met with Barack Obama in the…
— A neo-Nazi group in Germany posted a map on Facebook containing the addresses and locations of about 70 Jewish institutions and businesses. The list was published by the Berlin-based group on Wednesday on the 78th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom. Titled “Jews among us,” the list includes synagogues, day care centers, schools, memorials, businesses,…
After an ugly contest that filled the airwaves with attack ads, Democrat Josh Gottheimer has won a New Jersey congressional race against Republican incumbent Scott Garrett. After all the ballots were tallied on Wednesday, the Jewish former Bill Clinton aide held a 3% edge over his Tea Party rival, a bright spot for liberals in…
— Demonstrators chanted “Death to America! Death to Israel!” at the United Nations climate talks in Morocco. More than 200 people protested outside of the country’s parliament building in Rahat on Monday against the flying of the Israeli flag alongside the flags of 195 other countries represented at the climate talks, known as COP22, the French…
