Donald Trump issued a statement Wednesday expressing his condolences for the death of Israel’s former president Shimon Peres. “He was a consummate statesman, a distinguished patriot and a friend of peace-loving people everywhere,” Trump said. But he wasn’t a friend of Trump’s. In one of his last interviews, on Bloomberg TV, Peres made clear that…
— The Reconstructionist movement will open a film- and arts-based camp in Southern California, a branch of its Camp JRF. The new camp is being started with a $1.4 million grant over four years from the specialty camps incubator of the Foundation for Jewish Camp. The camp, which will be geared to third- though 10th-graders,…
Breitbart News attacked Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, calling her a “Polish, Jewish, American elitist” and accusing her of having “global media contacts,” a common anti-Semitic screed. The gratuitous nod to Applebaum’s Jewishness came in a 1,400-word article published Tuesday titled “WaPo’s Anne Applebaum Embarks On Kremlin-Style Disinformation Offensive vs. the Anti-Globalist Right.” According to…
— Fifteen human rights and religious organizations called on President Barack Obama to investigate the killing of a Palestinian-American teenager by Israeli soldiers earlier this year. In the letter sent Wednesday to Obama, the groups also asked the president to demand that Israel release evidence related to its investigation of the death of 16-year-old Mahmoud Shaalan. Shaalan was shot in…
— A senior activist in Britain’s Labour Party who is close to controversial party leader Jeremy Corbyn questioned why Holocaust Remembrance Day is only about Jews. Jackie Walker also questioned the need for security at Jewish institutions, suggesting that anti-Semitism is not behind any attacks, during a workshop organized by the Jewish Labour Movement at the…
— Anti-Semitic fliers were placed on car windshields in parking lots located at Bay Area Rapid Transit stations. The fliers were discovered on Tuesday evening, the NBC Bay Area affiliate reported. The fliers called the Jewish community “serpents” and called for separating Jews from children, NBC reported. The fliers are believed to have been printed and…
) — A settlement has been reached in a case that focused on control of the $500 million Koret Foundation, that pitted its founder’s widow, Susan Koret, against its former president and current board member, Tad Taube. The settlement was approved on Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, J., the Jewish news weekly of Northern…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans a rare visit to Jerusalem on Friday to attend the funeral of former Israeli leader Shimon Peres, a Palestinian official said on Thursday. Peres, who died on Wednesday at 93, won worldwide praise for his efforts in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the 1990s. But with negotiations frozen since 2014, it…
— A New York man was convicted of assaulting the head of the Brooklyn Jewish Y, but acquitted on the additional hate crimes charges. Shawn Schraeder, 27, of Queens, punched Leonard Petlakh, the executive director of the Kings Bay Y, in the face following an exhibition basketball game in October 2014 at Barclay’s Center between the Brooklyn…
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced he was heading to Jerusalem to attend Shimon Peres’ funeral and ordered flags flown at half-staff, a rare honor for foreign leaders. In a proclamation late Wednesday, Obama said he ordered flags to fly at “half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military…
WARSAW, Poland — The Prosecutor’s Office in Bialystok has ended an investigation of a Polish priest who spoke of Jews being a “cancer” during a sermon, determining that no hate crime had been committed. In a sermon on April 16 in Bialystok, Father Jacek Miedlar spoke of the “cancer which swept Poland,” apparently meaning Jews. He stressed…
