New York Congressman Lee Zeldin said that Donald Trump’s questioning of a Mexican-American judge’s ability to rule fairly due to his heritage does not make him a racist — and insisted President Obama is the actual racist. “You can easily argue that the president of the United States is a racist with his policies and…
A trove of 16 silver coins dating back more than 2,000 years has been uncovered in an excavation in the Israeli municipality of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut. The Hasmonean-era coins, which were found in April, were hidden in a rock crevice against a wall of an agricultural estate also discovered during the excavation, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday….
— The U.S. government can file a classified statement to the court in the case of Jonathan Pollard’s strict parole limitations, a federal judge has ruled. Pollard’s attorneys, who are trying to have the limitations eased, would not be permitted to see the “ex-parte” court submission. Judge Katherine Forrest of the U.S. District Court in…
Mexico’s foreign minister compared anti-Mexican “bigotry” in the United States to anti-Semitism in an address to the American Jewish Committee. Claudia Ruiz Massieu won sustained applause with her remarks Monday at the AJC’s Global Forum in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post . “Let me say loud and clear, fighting anti-Semitism, like standing up to anti-Mexican sentiment,…
— Liberal American Rabbi Michael Lerner has been invited to speak at boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s funeral. “I am deeply humbled and honored to be invited to speak at Muhammad Ali’s funeral,” Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine, wrote on Facebook. “It has been several decades since I worked with Muhammad Ali in the peace…
— Following legal action by supporters of Israel, four Spanish municipalities dropped their former policy of support for boycotts of the Jewish state. Occurring amid an unprecedented judicial crackdown in Spain against the phenomenon, three of the four reversals last month came following court-issued injunctions that suspended municipal motions passed in support of a boycott, ACOM,…
A former Australian school principal, wanted in her home country on suspicion of sexually abusing at least 70 students, was freed from house arrest in Israel on Tuesday but ordered to undertake medical treatment after a court ruled her mentally unfit for extradition. Malka Leifer will receive mandatory drug treatment for six months before her…
— Members of the American Anthropological Association narrowly defeated a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The results of the six week electronic ballot were announced by the association on Tuesday. Some 51 percent of the association’s eligible members voted, the largest turnout in its history, the association said in a statement. In the final…
With the Obama administration in its final months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a more frequent and feted visitor to Moscow than Washington, his eye on shifting big-power influence in the Middle East. No one expects Netanyahu, who was hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for the third time in the…
WASHINGTON — A liberal Jewish political action committee is marking the anniversary of the murders of three civil rights workers with a call to action against Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Vigils will be held in four cities on June 21, the 52nd anniversary of the 1964 murders in Mississippi of Andrew Goodman,…
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History last week announced that a newly identified species of praying mantis after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Researchers from the museum said they meant to honor the Jewish justice’s “relentless fight for gender equality.” It makes sense. Ilomantis ginsburgae is the first mantis classified by distinct qualities in its…
