— Hasidic rabbis from the Satmar sect reportedly have issued a decree barring women from pursuing higher education. The Yiddish-language decree says college education for girls is “dangerous” and “against the Torah,” and that “no girls attending our school are allowed to study and get a degree,” The Independent online newspaper based in Britain reported…
— Reggae star Matisyahu gave a surprise concert to campers and staff at a religious Zionist summer camp in Pennsylvania. Matisyahu showed up at the Bnei Akiva Camp Moshava in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, on Monday, where his children are campers, the Arutz-7 news website reported. Among the songs Matisyahu performed were his hits “One Day,” “Sunshine,”…
ROME – Italy’s Jewish community pledged aid to the areas of central Italy hit by a deadly earthquake early Wednesday morning. Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, issued a statement saying Italy’s Jews expressed full solidarity with the victims of the quake and were also ready to mobilize “in…
— A Jewish group founded by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and other Jewish donors to fight the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel on campus said it regrets that a grant it provided funded a poster campaign that targeted pro-Palestinian student activists as “Jew haters” and terrorists’ allies. The Maccabee Task Force issued its…
— Undefeated boxer Dustin Fleischer had a second bar mitzvah on Masada during a Birthright Israel trip. Fleischer, nicknamed “The White Tiger,” was part of an Aug. 10-21 Birthright Israel trip sponsored by the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey, based in the central part of the state. He is the grandson of a…
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops rescued a group of haredi Orthodox Jews who attempted to visit Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus. Two of the some 60 Jewish pilgrims who visited the holy site overnight Tuesday were injured by Palestinian rock throwers. Half of the Jewish visitors, members of the Breslover movement of…
— London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a European capital city, has been bombarded with anti-Semitic messages since he said he would not support Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership election. Several of the messages suggested that he had been influenced by Jews, the London-based news website Jewishnews.uk reported. The mayor…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio reportedly decried the BDS movement as not “consistent with progressive values in a speech at a prominent Long Island synagogue. “There are plenty of people who support BDS who have advanced degrees and who call themselves progressives,” de Blasio said to the congregants of Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach,…
The Trump family consistently hid its German ancestry from customers and investors when it was building its New York real estate empire in the post-World War II era, according to an article in The New York Times. After the death of Friedrich Trump — Donald’s grandfather — the family regularly claimed that it hailed from…
— Anti-Semitic graffiti has appeared for the fifth time this month at one of the busiest intersections in the Chinatown section of Washington, DC. Earlier this month, vandals repeatedly painted the word “Jew” on the images of rats appearing on an outdoor Chinese Zodiac public art display. On Monday, swastikas were discovered painted on the…
At the peak of a searing summer, Palestinians living in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank are suffering from severe water shortages, prompting a war of words between Palestinian and Israeli officials over who is responsible. The Palestinians say Israel is preventing them from accessing adequate water at an affordable price, and point out that…
