Polish police said they located a Holocaust monument that had been reported missing in Plonsk, the birthplace of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. Police found the monument in the possession of individuals who claim they own the area, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported last week. Police would not name them. Separately, a Jewish cemetery…
Polish prosecutors indicted for incitement a construction contractor from the western city of Wroclaw who burned an effigy of a Jew at a protest rally against Muslim immigration. Piotr Rybak, an entrepreneur from Wroclaw, may face as long as two years in jail if convicted of the charges levelled against him last week for his…
For the first time in recent history, Lithuanian Jews will be represented at a Vilnius street market that is one the country’s oldest traditions. The Jewish presence at the March 4-6 Kaziukas Fair — a large annual Lithuanian folk arts and crafts event dating back to 1604 — will comprise a stand where shoppers can…
A Palestinian woman rammed her car into an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Friday and was then shot dead by troops at the scene, the Israeli military said. A wave of Palestinian-Israeli heightened violence, now in its sixth month, has shown no sign of abating and has raised concern of further escalation….
Pesidential candidate Donald Trump defended his refusal to repudiate white supremacist groups by comparing them to Jewish charities — a claim that the Anti-Defamation League denounced as obscene. “I don’t like to disavow groups if I don’t know who they are,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” I mean, you could have Federation of Jewish…
In a lengthy statement that referenced his Jewish background, Oberlin College’s president responded to the firestorm surrounding a professor’s controversial social media posts, but he stopped short of condemning the professor. In a statement published Tuesday on an official college website, Marvin Krislov said the posts by assistant professor Joy Karega “affected me on a…
Veteran journalist Andrew Silow-Carroll has been hired by 70 Faces Media to be the editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the nearly century-old international news agency. For the past 10 years, Silow-Carroll has served as CEO and editor-in-chief of the New Jersey Jewish News. His weekly column is regularly reprinted in the Times…
A modern Orthodox elementary school in suburban Philadelphia will launch a middle school with a $25 million grant from a local foundation. The Yeshiva Lab School in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, said this week that it would open the school for the 2017-18 academic year. The Kohelet Foundation, which assists Jewish day schools in the Philadelphia…
Israel will be holding its first beauty pageant for transgender women. Nearly 30 transgender Jews and Arabs auditioned Thursday at a Tel Aviv club for a place in the Miss Trans Israel pageant, according to The Associated Press. “Definitely we are achieving, enlightening the people to accept and empower transsexuals,” Israela Stephanie Lev, the pageant’s…
(JTA) — First there was KosherLamp, the bedside light that could be turned on and off on the Sabbath. Then came KosherSwitch, the controversial toggle that allows users to control lights and other electronic appliances on Shabbat. Now there’s HotMat, a new foldable hotplate designed to give observant Jewish consumers a safe, portable and rabbinically sanctioned…
Josh Block of The Israel Project reportedly made derogatory comments about Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal in an email exchange with a Voice of America producer that was laced with sexist overtones. The Intercept obtained the emails through a FOIA request made by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. The emails were from October 2015,…
