(JTA) The Labour Party candidate in London’s mayoral race, a Muslim, said he is “embarrassed” and “sorrowful” about his party’s failure to take on anti-Semitism. Sadiq Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, said Tuesday in a speech at a London Jewish community center that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn needs to be “trained about what anti-Semitism…
(JTA) — A 92-year-old man who survived seven different German concentration camps participated in a question and answer session, detailing his harrowing near-death to liberation story. Henry Flescher, who now lives in Aventura, Florida and had not heard of the social news-sharing site Reddit before the session earlier this week, participated in the forum with the…
WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton, stung by a string of losses, is testing a new line of attack against rival Bernie Sanders ahead of New York’s Democratic primary: sharply questioning his credentials and suggesting he lacks expertise to implement his campaign pledge to break up big banks. Meanwhile, a Super PAC, an outside funding group, supporting…
Don’t call Bob Dylan a hippy. Ever. Longtime country music bad boy Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, found that out the hard way last year. In February, 2015, as the Jewish folk singing legend accepted the MusicCares lifetime achievement award, Dylan, 74, said something about the born again Haggard that many…
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party, was fined for repeating his view that the Nazi gas chambers were a “detail” of World War II. A court in Paris fined Le Pen some $34,000 after finding him guilty of denying crimes against humanity, the French news agency AFP reported. One year…
In a talk to hundreds of philanthropists and foundation representatives, former Facebook spokesperson and marketing director Randi Zuckerberg credited Shabbat and other Jewish concepts for some of her main pieces of business advice. Zuckerberg told the crowd that she was bemused by those who viewed her emphasis on life balance as an innovative idea. “People…
The number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Austria increased more than 80 percent last year, with reported internet postings denouncing Jews more than doubling, an Austrian group said on Wednesday. Jews across Europe have warned of a rising tide of anti-Semitism, fueled by anger at Israeli policy in the Middle East, while far-right movements have…
A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by commentators after suggesting Jewish and Arab women should be separated in maternity wards in apartheid-style segregation. Betzalel Smotrich, a 36-year-old member of parliament from the Jewish Home party, which is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, is an ultra-nationalist settler…
To Israel’s military prosecutors, a soldier who fired a bullet into the head of a wounded and motionless Palestinian assailant may be guilty of homicide. To many Israelis, he is a hero. That has fueled an unprecedented debate over the role and ethics of Israel’s conscript armed forces, long the symbol of national unity among…
Israel’s parliament has effectively capped salaries for bankers at $655,000, raising fears that the best minds in the money business will flee the sector for industries with no such limits. The new Knesset law was designed to soothe public anger over income inequality but has sparked fears of a mass exodus at a time when…
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is crowdsourcing research on how local U.S. newspapers reported the Holocaust. The museum said in a statement issued Tuesday it had already received more than 900 submissions from researchers, including newspapers as far afield as the Bangor (Maine) Daily News and the Santa Cruz (California) Sentinel. “While scholars have extensively…
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