– Two Moroccan Jews were killed in Casablanca in what police said was a crime motivated by greed, but which some media said may have had a racist element. The victims of the killing on July 3 were Sam Toledano and Vicky Chetrit, a couple based in the coastal city, the online edition of Le360 daily…
South Korea has seen the future — and it’s kosher. The Korean government announced plans Thursday to attract new businesses and boost international sales by educating producers about kosher and halal foods. Following a meeting with President Park Guen-hye, officials announced plans to provide “administrative and technical support” to help kosher and halal food and…
— Jewish organizations are voicing anguish over the violence in Dallas that claimed the lives of five police officers during a peaceful demonstration protesting the recent shooting deaths of two unarmed black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana. Officials say the police officers were killed by sniper fire during a protest Thursday evening. One suspect, who died during…
— The nomadic Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will have a new and permanent home next year. The museum’s executive director Judy Margles and board chair Elaine Coughlin announced Wednesday the purchase of a $5 million space in Oldtown at the former location of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. For…
What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg think about Donald Trump? You don’t need to be a genius to read between the lines. When asked about a hypothetical Trump presidency, the Jewish Supreme Court justice said, “I don’t want to think about that possibility.” If the Donald were to win, she continued, “everything is up for grabs,”…
An Arizona grand jury has indicted an accused Islamic State sympathizer on charges of plotting to stage an attack Phoenix-area Jews and other targets with bombs and other weapons, prosecutors said on Thursday. The suspect, Mahin Khan, 18, of Tucson, was arrested on July 1 by FBI agents in an investigation that began with citizens…
— Spanish Jews condemned a left-wing party’s use of alleged anti-Semitic imagery to protest against President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to the country. The Madrid branch of Izquerda Unida, or United Left, on Thursday tweeted the controversial image, which shows a depiction of a thick-lipped Obama standing behind a wall amid explosions while hugging an…
— Newt Gingrich defended Donald Trump’s use of an image resembling the Star of David in a tweet criticizing Hillary Clinton as corrupt. The former House speaker, who is one of the top candidates to be Trump’s vice presidential nominee on the Republican ticket, said in a phone interview with CNN Thursday that he was…
(JTA) — Three months after Israel’s Chief Rabbinate rejected his authority to perform conversions, one of America’s most prominent Modern Orthodox rabbis joined with Natan Sharansky to advance a message: The rabbinate needs to become more open. But not too much more. A widely respected rabbi in New York’s Orthodox community, Haskel Lookstein saw his credentials…
— Five officers were shot dead in Dallas at a protest against police violence. Several suspects were implicated in the firing at the officers on Thursday night during protests against police in downtown Dallas, marking the deadliest single attack on U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001, CNN reported. Some of the shots were sniper fire. The…
(JTA) — An Ohio congregation has become what is perhaps the first Orthodox synagogue to elect an all-female slate of officers. At their annual meeting on June 26, the Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue in Lyndhurst, Ohio elected five women to their board. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of the New York-based Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, told…
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