Members of the U.S. Congressional bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Anti-Semitism applauded the decision of the Hungarian government to cancel plans to erect a statue that would have honored a Hungarian Nazi collaborator. Hungary had planned to memorialize Balint Homan, a known anti-Semite and Nazi collaborator. After learning of this, members of the task force…
A University of San Diego professor and some of her students wore yellow star badges modeled after the ones Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust to protest Islamophobia. Bahar Davary, an Iranian-American associate professor of theology and religious studies at the college, and her students began wearing the yellow stars with the word…
(Washington Jewish Week) — Alarmed by what they called “Orwellian efforts” to link Israel with a multitude of free-speech issues now roiling American college campuses, a group of influential academics has launched an initiative to combat anti-Semitism and facilitate constructive dialogue about Israel. Led by Mark Yudof, president emeritus of the University of California system,…
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York state is allocating $1.5 million in state funds for a memorial commemorating the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The New York Times reported Monday that the memorial will consist of steel panels on the former Triangle building in New York City. The building in the Greenwich…
AUSTIN, Texas – A mock nativity scene at the Texas Capitol in which Baby Jesus was represented as the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights was removed on Tuesday after Governor Greg Abbott complained that it was “tasteless sarcasm,” Abbott’s office said. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation that was responsible for the display accused Abbott,…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed he wasn’t being vulgar when he used the Yiddish term “schlonged” to describe Hillary Clinton’s loss to Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. “‘Schlonged’ is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got “schlonged” that meant beaten badly,” Trump tweeted Tuesday night. Once again, #MSM is dishonest. “Schlonged”…
The line to enter New York City’s B’nai Jeshurun synagogue on Sunday night went around the block. But the 700 people who crowded the sidewalk on West 88th street weren’t there for services. Or for a wedding. Or a late-night bar mitzvah. They came to celebrate a king — a Moroccan king, to be exact….
Arlin M. Adams, my great-uncle and lifelong mentor, died peacefully at his home in Philadelphia last night. His accomplishments as a lawyer, advocate and public servant were nothing short of extraordinary. He served for more than 17 years as one of the most highly-respected judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit;…
A day after officials announced a deal between Russia and Israel to cooperate in the war on terror, Moscow was criticized for the civilian toll its bombing in Syria has caused. Russia’s bombing of Syria has killed many civilians and may amount to a war crime, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, presenting what it said…
A Jewish father and son abducted in Venezuela were freed days after the Jewish community paid a $400,000 ransom. Heavily armed men kidnapped the Orthodox Jews as they made their way to synagogue for morning prayers on Saturday. The crime was only reported in the late afternoon, when the two did not return home. At…
JERUSALEM — Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing Jewish Home Party, condemned Jewish extremists and affirmed his support for the Shin Bet security service in its investigation of the firebombing of a Palestinian home. The leader of the religious Zionist political party also condemned the Jewish terrorism manifested in the recent attacks on Palestinians, including…
געוויסע עקספּערטן האַלטן, אַז מע דאַרף באַטראַכטן ל״ג־בעומר ווי אַ פֿרילינגדיקן מײַ־פֿעסטיוואַל
