LOS ANGELES – The governing board of California’s flagship public university system is to vote next week on a statement condemning anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Jewish bigotry, a proposal sparking sharp faculty debate over the line between free speech and intolerance. The controversy playing out at the University of California reflects a broader clash…
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, responding to reports President Barack Obama called on Democrats to rally around Hillary Clinton as the likely nominee, said on Thursday it was “absurd” to suggest he drop out of the race. Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors last Friday that Sanders was nearing the point…
Stephen Hazan Arnoff, the head of the Jewish Community Center Association, has resigned after little more than a year in the position, The Forward has learned. The decision was a personal one, received by the JCCA’s board with “regret and understanding,” according to a statement from the association. Arnoff will return to his home in…
Citing recent allegations of anti-Semitism and Israel hatred against several members of the Labour Party in Britain, the head of a major group representing British Jews said Jews can no longer trust the party. Jonathan Arkush, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, made the statement in an interview published Thursday in…
Three incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti have been reported at a predominantly Jewish public high school in suburban Boston since fans of an opposing Catholic school basketball team shouted anti-Semitic chants during a championship game. The graffiti at Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, includes swastikas, according to local reports. Police were immediately informed of…
Former Subway sandwich chain pitchman and convicted sex offender Jared Fogle was sued in Indiana federal court this week by one of his victims, a girl seeking $150,000 in damages for negligence and mental suffering, court documents showed. Fogle, who became famous after losing weight on a diet that included sandwiches from the fast-food chain,…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A World Jewish Congress assembly adopted a resolution calling the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel a manifestation of anti-Semitism. On Wednesday, a special Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, voted to approve the resolution, which “considers the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement, and…
The mayor of a town adjacent to the Orthodox Jewish stronghold of Lakewood, New Jersey, says a comment he made about Jewish home buyers invading his town does not make him anti-Semitic. Thomas Kelaher, the mayor of Toms River, was quoted in a recent Bloomberg News story as saying that Orthodox Jews are trying to…
WASHINGTON – Two key U.S. Senate Republicans signaled they would be open to considering after the Nov. 8 presidential election President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, the centrist judge who was set on Thursday to begin meeting with senators. The comments by Utah’s Orrin Hatch and Arizona’s Jeff Flake, members of the…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Google Brazil must remove all links to a bar mitzvah video from 2012 that went viral, a Brazilian court ruled. The court in Sao Paulo backed a lawsuit by the parents of Nissim Ourfali, who were seeking to have all the copies of the three-minute video removed from Google-owned YouTube. The…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli woman in her 20s was taken to the hospital in serious condition following a stabbing attack at a bus stop near Ariel in the West Bank. The two assailants were shot and killed by Israeli security forces who responded to the attack on Thursday morning, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said….
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