(JTA) — A large Nazi banner unfurled in Nice, France, caused an outcry among locals and tourists. The red banner with a swastika hung from the Palais de la Prefecture on Monday and Tuesday, during the filming of an adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s Holocaust memoir “A Bag of Marbles.” “People started screaming,” tourist Andrew Gentry told…
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $26 million over the last three months as he wages a populist challenge to become the Democratic presidential nominee, MSNBC television reported on Thursday, citing a spokesperson with his campaign. That is up from $24 million estimate cited by the New York Times on Wednesday, putting Sanders closer to…
The New York State Attorney General’s office has found that the Bayside Jewish Center did not follow state regulations in selling its building to New York City. The northeastern Queens synagogue was sold last month to New York City’s School Construction Authority, to be used as a high school, according to the Queens TimesLedger. But…
(JTA) — A large Nazi banner unfurled in Nice, France, caused an outcry among locals and tourists. The red banner with a swastika hung from the Palais de la Prefecture on Monday and Tuesday, during the filming of an adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s Holocaust memoir “A Bag of Marbles.” “People started screaming,” tourist Andrew Gentry told…
Billionaire stock pickers David Einhorn, Daniel Loeb and Barry Rosenstein on Wednesday told their wealthy investors they lost money in September as market turmoil inflicted more pain on some of America’s most prominent hedge funds. The three men were among the first to tabulate their monthly performance numbers and their losses suggest that even bigger…
Six buildings at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease during an investigation into an outbreak in New York City. One person has died and 12 people were hospitalized after contracting the disease in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, according to New York City’s health department. Health department…
The Palestinian flag was raised outside the United Nations headquarters in New York for the first time. The ceremony on Wednesday afternoon was attended by diplomats in the U.N.’s Rose Garden shortly after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, criticized Israel and said that the Palestinians were no…
A comprehensive catalog listing the more than 1,000 major stolen artworks in Nazi leader Hermann Goering’s collection has been published for the first time. The handwritten catalog, which had been stored in France’s diplomatic archives and accessible only to scholars, was published Wednesday by the French publisher Flammarion, the UK Telegraph reported. With notes detailing…
A Jewish pro-Palestinian group has issued a report claiming that Israel advocates are using “false charges” to silence criticism of Israel on U.S. campuses. The Jewish Voice for Peace report was released on Wednesday, the same day that Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a separate report making similar arguments. Called “Stifling…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday accused Israel of sabotaging U.S. efforts to broker peace and said that Israeli security operations at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem could lead to a religious war. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly ahead of a ceremony for the raising of the Palestinian flag at U.N….
Abraham Foxman, the former longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, has accepted a role at an Israeli policy think tank. Foxman will be a distinguished nonresident fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, the organization announced in a news release sent Wednesday. He will work on “issues of combating anti-Semitism and…
באַזונדערש רירנדיק דאָ זײַנען די בילדער פֿון משפּחה־רײַבונגען, פֿון באַגעגענישן װאָס ברענגען נישט צו קײן עמאָציאָנעלע פֿאַרשטענדיקונגען.
