Donald Trump used another graphic initially published by an anti-Semitic site last week at a rally in Sunrise, Florida. He held up a chart that purported to show the amount of money several countries in North Africa and the Middle East had paid in order to receive money from the State Department, calling it a…
— Baton Rouge’s newly-opened Chabad House launched an emergency fundraising campaign for thousands of people affected by the massive floods that swept across Louisiana. At least five people perished and more than 20,000 people have been rescued in Louisiana amid floods that began Friday due to heavy rainfall. The deluge brought 6 to 10 inches of rainfall…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hacked emails show that the Open Society Foundations, led by George Soros, has as an objective “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies” in international forums, in part by questioning Israel’s reputation as a democracy. The documents are available on a website, reportedly backed by Russia, that uses anti-Semitic stereotypes to attack Soros….
WASHINGTON — The vice presidential candidate for the Green Party, Ajamu Baraka, disavowed Holocaust denial after contributing an article to a writer whom Baraka said he did not know was a Holocaust denier. “There has never been any question in mind about the genocidal madness of the Nazi Holocaust throughout Europe during the second world war,” Ajamu Baraka told…
Fyvush Finkel, an award winning off-Broadway actor who built an eight-decade career on stage, has reportedly died at 93. The Yiddish Artists & Friends Actors Club told Broadway World that Finkel died Sunday morning. Finkel, who played several roles in different productions of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, started working as a child actor in Jewish…
Two archaeological discoveries made in the Galilee over the summer tell a story that differs from the standard description of the devastation in the country following the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans. Excavations by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Zippori have revealed frescoes with human and animal images from about 1,800…
— The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved a resolution calling on the U.S. government to end all aid to Israel if Israel does not stop building settlements and “enable an independent Palestinian state.” Voting at its triennial assembly in New Orleans that ended Saturday, the church also sought a halt to all investment in…
Israel on Sunday demanded a commemoration for its athletes killed at the 1972 Olympics at each Games opening ceremony, telling the International Olympic Committee “a black flag” will always fly over its multi-sports event. Days after the IOC announced a mourning site at each Olympic village with a minute’s silence in the memory of those…
JERUSALEM — Thousands of worshippers marked the fast of Tisha b’Av at the Western Wall. Tisha b’Av, a 25-hour fast, commemorates the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history. Beginning on Saturday night and continuing throughout Sunday, the worshippers read the Book of Lamentations and other lamentations dealing with the…
— An Orthodox Jewish woman has sued Dallas County for allegedly rescinding a job offer over her Shabbat observance. Isabel Balderas filed her lawsuit Wednesday in district court, the Dallas Morning News reported, and is seeking $100,000 to $1 million in damages. Balderas said she told the sheriff’s office that because of her observance, she…
JERUSALEM — The parents of Michael Levin, a lone soldier from the United States who was killed in the Second Lebanon War, returned to Israel to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. Mark and Harriet Levin of Philadelphia traveled to Mount Herzl on Thursday to mark their son’s yahrzeit. They were joined by other…
