Bernie Sanders won Michigan’s Democratic primary, an upset that gave new life to his candidacy and edged him closer to a chance at being the first Jewish major party nominee. Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, trailed the Independent senator from Vermont by 2 percentage points in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday, 48 percent to…
Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and several other American philanthropists — as well as numerous corporations and nonprofit organizations — are being sued for $34.5 billion for their involvement with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In a lawsuit filed Monday in the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia, a group of more than…
While commemorating its 100th birthday, the German auto company BMW expressed regret for its actions during the Holocaust. In a statement on its website under the heading “Facing up to the past,” the car company said it “operated exclusively as a supplier to the German arms industry” under the Nazis, using “forced labourers, convicts and…
A 16-year-old Danish girl was charged with planning attacks on two schools, one of them Jewish. The girl, who was 15 when she was arrested in January, allegedly planned bombing attacks on a Jewish school in Copenhagen and another school in Denmark. She had acquired chemicals to create the explosives, according to Danish prosecutors. A…
(JTA) — Donald Trump is not happy with the Hitler comparison. Prominent people have lately likened the Republican presidential front-runner to Adolf Hitler for his comments targeting Mexicans and Muslims and for his populist politicking style. Most recently, Trump has had his supporters raise their right hands and pledge to vote for him. Some, including former…
The Republican Party in Washington, D.C., is extending its primary hours to allow observant Jews to vote. Patrick Mara, the director of the District of Columbia Republican Party, told the Washington Post in a report posted on the newspaper’s website Monday that the party would extend voting this Saturday to 9 p.m., five hours later…
A 29-year-old American business school student on a school trip to learn about Israeli tech was reportedly killed and as many as 10 people were wounded in stabbing attacks at the popular Jaffa waterfront in Tel Aviv. The victim was identified as Taylor Force, a Texas native and student at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of…
Donald Trump said he would “look into” his recent practice of asking followers to raise their hands in a pledge after it was likened to the Nazi salute. Trump said Tuesday on NBC that the comparisons to Nazi salutes were a “big, big stretch,” adding it was something he does for fun. “I’ll certainly look…
A New York finance executive pleaded not guilty to murder on Tuesday in the slaying of his pediatrician wife, who was stabbed 22 times with a kitchen knife as she showered in their suburban Scarsdale home, authorities said. Jules Reich, 62, who at the time of the Jan. 20 crime was listed as a partner…
President Reuven Rivlin called the findings of the landmark Pew survey a “wake-up call for Israeli society.” The poll released on Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew Research Center, a non-partisan think tank, also found that many Israelis – Jews and Arabs – appeared to have lost hope for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict….
A French anti-Semitism watchdog condemned an attack on a Jewish boy, 13. The boy , who was wearing a kippah, was walking to synagogue on Saturday afternoon in Paris’ 12th district, when he was attacked by three youths described as “of African origin,” the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, a Jewish nonprofit…
