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….
Bayern Munich apologized to anyone who saw Holocaust imagery in a graphic the German soccer club posted on Twitter. Replying to the original tweet hours after posting it Wednesday, Bayern said it had not meant to “hurt feelings” and was only trying to promote its match later that day against Juventus. The graphic shows train…
JERUSALEM — Mossad director Meir Dagan, who after a long career spearheading shadow wars against Israel’s enemies became a vociferous critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s saber-rattling on Iran, died of cancer on Thursday, aged 71. A pugnacious retired army general, Dagan took over the Mossad in 2002, when a Palestinian revolt was raging, international…
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