Ken Thompson, the first African-American to be elected district attorney of Brooklyn, has died at age 50 of complications from cancer, his office said. Thompsson trounced longtime incumbent Charles Hynes in a bitter 2013 Democratic primary part on promises to shake up his approach to child sex abuse crimes in the borough’s large ultra-Orthodox Jewish…
Geraldo Rivera said that he has uncovered some “embarrassing” tapes of Donald Trump discussing women — but insisted that the mogul never used a vulgar term about women’s genitalia and never actually groped women. Rivera, who stars on a Fox News talk show, said he has started to sift through a mountain of “many tapes”…
— A Los Angeles federal court judge ordered a preliminary injunction against performing kapparot, an Jewish pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung by its legs and then slaughtered. U.S. District Judge Andre Birrote Jr. granted the injunction Friday in response to a lawsuit filed late last month on behalf of the Virginia-based United Poultry Concerns…
WASHINGTON — The daughter of a Jewish state senator in Pennsylvania denied that her question at a Hillary Clinton town hall was arranged with the presidential campaign. Brennan Leach, 15, had appeared at a town hall with Clinton in Haverford, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, on Sept. 4, accompanied by her parents. Her father, Sen. Daylin…
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said the U.S. focus in Syria should solely be on the Islamic State terrorist group, arguing that the Assad regime is not worth confronting because its allies, Russia and Iran, effectively control the country. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, in the second presidential debate held Sunday night at Washington University in…
Two people were killed and at least six injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on a light rail stop in Jerusalem. The attack mid-Sunday morning occurred at the Ammunition Hill station in northern Jerusalem, which is located next to the Jerusalem Police headquarters. The assailant, a 39-year-old resident of eastern Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood, was…
Jacob Neusner, one of the most influential voices in American Jewish intellectual life in the past half-century, has died. Neusner, one of the most published authors in history, having written or edited more than 950 books, died on Saturday at his home in New York. He was 84. His funeral is set for Monday at…
A man carrying an axe made anti-Semitic threats to a group of Jews in a town near Manchester, England on Rosh Hashanah. The man reportedly was inside a vehicle close to a synagogue in the town of Prestwich when he made the threats on Oct. 3, according to The Manchester Evening News. Police were called…
— The Jewish Federations of North America is opening an emergency fund for Hurricane Matthew relief. As the Category 3 storm whipped Florida’s Atlantic coast with 100-mile-per-hour winds Friday, forecasters warned about a storm surge in parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina that could bring widespread destruction to homes, businesses and infrastructure. The National Weather Service warned that…
WASHINGTON — Eric Trump spoke on a syndicated radio show that once hosted a white supremacist who interviewed his brother, Donald Trump Jr. Trump, who like his brothers and sisters often acts as a surrogate for his father, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, was interviewed Thursday on “Liberty Roundtable.” He and host Sam Bushman discussed…
— Several Jewish groups from Poland are preparing to host 12 of the country’s senior lawmakers and Cabinet ministers at a Shabbat dinner in Warsaw. The dinner, hosted by the TSKZ cultural group and a smaller organization called the Jewrnalism Foundation, will feature guests from across the political spectrum, including the secretary of state, Anna…
