(JTA) — Some 200 demonstrators outside the Polish consulate in New York protested what they termed “attempts to deny Polish war crimes during the Holocaust.” The rally was organized by Rabbi Zev Friedman, the dean of a suburban New York high school, over the interrogation last month of a Polish Jewish scholar, Jan Gross, by…
WASHINGTON — A top Jewish Obama administration official decried the rise of “the fear of the other” in the United States, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. “I do not think a Holocaust is happening in America, but I do worry about what is happening when we betray the principle of inclusion,” Penny Pritzker,…
(JTA) — Hundreds of voters, including Britain’s chief rabbi and his wife, were turned away from polling stations Thursday morning in a heavily Jewish borough of London. The voters in Barnet who were not allowed to cast ballots were told their names did not appear on the lists of registered voters, the Jewish Chronicle ….
The Zionist Organization of America praised Donald Trump for recent comments he made in support of expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, calling the presidential candidate’s words “refreshing.” Morton Klein, ZOA’s president said he was pleased to hear a “presidential candidate say that Israeli/Palestinian peace is not dependent upon Israel discriminating against Israeli…
NEW YORK (JTA) – Democrats are more than four times as likely as Republicans to say they sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel, according to a new survey, and sympathy for the Palestinians among Americans overall is growing. While self-identified Democrats are more likely to favor Israel over the Palestinians (43 percent for…
BOSTON – Daniel Aaron, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who pioneered the field of American studies and taught the likes of John F. Kennedy, has died at 103. A prolific writer and hugely influential intellectual, Aaron, who died on Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is acclaimed for combining his interests in history and literature. The founding president of the…
WASHINGTON — In his Holocaust Remembrance Day message, President Barack Obama called for solidarity with Jews facing anti-Semitism in Europe and on campuses. “Today, and every day, we stand in solidarity with the Jewish community both at home and abroad,” Obama said in his statement released Wednesday afternoon, on the eve of commemorations. “We stand…
Israel’s military said it had discovered on Thursday a cross-border tunnel built by the Islamist Hamas group from the Gaza Strip, a day after a rare flare-up of violence along the frontier. The military said Wednesday’s violence, in which Hamas militants fired mortar bombs at Israeli forces, may have been an attempt by the Islamist…
Donald Trump said he had no message for supporters who deluged a reporter with anti-Semitic comments after she wrote a critical profile of his wife. “You’ll have to talk to them about it,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Wednesday on CNN when told of the abusive phone calls, emaisl and social media posts received…
Israel’s deputy military chief suggested in a Holocaust memorial speech that there were signs of Nazi-like behavior in Israeli society, drawing condemnation from two cabinet ministers on Thursday before he backtracked on the remarks. Major-General Yair Golan’s speech, at a ceremony on Wednesday, would have touched a nerve at any time in a nation that…
Almost half a century ago, when he first became an active supporter of Britain’s Labour Party, Rabbi Abraham Pinter said it had far less of a problem with anti-Semitism than the country as a whole. But while other political groups have recognized the need to address prejudice against Jews, Pinter said the country’s main opposition…
