Demonstrators protesting the allocation of land to the Jewish community in the Russian city of Perm demanded the outlawing of the Chabad movement. More than 100 people attended the rally near the area that municipal authorities in Perm, which is located 870 miles east of Moscow, designated for transfer without charge to the local Jewish…
Doris Roberts, who won four Emmy Awards as the meddling mother Marie Barone on the popular sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” has died. Roberts, who was of Russian Jewish descent, died overnight Monday in her sleep, her spokeswoman told The Associated Press. The cause of death was not immediately known. She was 90. Roberts “will be…
A local journalist in a western Poland city discovered that the local rabbi is not a rabbi, never lived in Israel, is not familiar with Jewish customs, and does not speak or understand Hebrew. Jacoob Ben Nistell, aka Yaakav – he used different forms of this name, claimed he was from Haifa. Members of the…
(JTA) — It’s New York and we’re Jewish, so there’s really not much more to say. Or maybe there is. Here’s 7 things you need to know about the Jewish electorate as the Empire state votes in the presidential primary. About 1 in 10 New Yorkers is Jewish New York state has about 1.75 million…
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has released a list of rabbis around the world that it trusts to confirm the authenticity of Jewish conversions, and it includes two Americans who have been mired in scandal and omits New York liberal Orthodox Rabbi Avi Weiss. The list released Tuesday features more than 100 rabbis, mostly from the United…
A Republican operative is suing Donald Trump and his campaign for $4M over a torrent of online abuse unleashed after she was not hired as a communications consultant. Cheri Jacobus, a veteran New York GOP figure, claims she was bombarded with sexist and anti-Semitic abuse after the Donald lambasted her as a “real dummy” and…
The haredi Orthodox man who stabbed six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, killing a 16-year-old girl, was convicted of murder. Yishai Schlissel, 40, was convicted on Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court for murdering Shira Banki, 16, who was marching in the July 2015 parade in support of her gay and lesbian friends. He…
John Kasich gave an impromptu 20-minute speech about hope and religious faith to a suburban New York Orthodox synagogue. The Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate avoided politics in the address Saturday to hundreds of congregants at Long Island’s Great Neck Synagogue, Newsday reported. Kasich — who is second in the New York Republican primary…
An Israeli man was convicted on Tuesday of murdering a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, as a court rejected his insanity plea for a crime that helped trigger the 2014 Gaza war. Prosecutors said Yosef Haim Ben-David organized the killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair. Two Jewish youths who helped him abduct the teen, who was…
Joe Biden and John Kerry said the Obama administration remained committed to advancing a two-state solution and criticized Israel and the Palestinians for obstructing its path. Biden, the vice president, and Kerry, the secretary of state, addressed J Street’s annual gala and lavished praise on the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group for embracing the…
The co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream were arrested Monday during a protest outside the Capitol building in Washington DC. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were protesting against corporate political spending at a rally that is part of the “Democracy Spring” demonstrations that have been taking place in Washington for the past week, organized…
