U.S. ‘concerned’ by Lufthansa’s expulsion of Hasidic travellers, antisemitism envoy says
The German airline apologized for the ‘offense caused’ to the group but made no reference to the fact they were Jewish.
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Trump endorses Thomas Massie, a rare incumbent opposed by the Republican Jewish Coalition
Massie has opposed funding for Holocaust education and money to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome batteries.
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Veteran Palestinian journalist shot and killed in Jenin while reporting on Israeli army operation
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Found in the conservative scrutiny of Florida’s math books: a joke about Jews
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Lufthansa apologizes for expelling ‘large group’ of Hasidic Jews from flight to Hungary
The German airline issued a statement saying it has “zero tolerance” for antisemitism, racism or any kind of discrimination.
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Larry Summers and Alan Dershowitz join over 100 Harvard faculty and alumni in denouncing student paper’s Israel boycott endorsement
An open letter says the editorial was antisemitic.
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Brooklyn DA asked Cuomo to commute sentence for child molester in Hasidic community
The plea on behalf of Nachemya Weberman, who has only served nine years of a 50-year sentence, appears to be the only time District Attorney Eric Gonzalez intervened for someone convicted of a sex crime.
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Cohen’s book satirizes a real-life visit to America by the future prime minister’s father.
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Passengers say Lufthansa threw all visible Jews off NYC-Budapest flight because some weren’t wearing masks
A Lufthansa airline supervisor said on video that it was “the Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.”
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Russian shelling damages Jewish cemetery in Ukraine where pogrom victims are buried
At least 105 of the hundreds of people buried at the graveyard in Hlukhiv died in a 1918 pogrom.
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After months of delays, Israel permits American basketball player to live in the country — but only temporarily
Jared Armstrong’s temporary residency comes just after Israel awarded citizenship to a prominent soccer player and a Russian oligarch.
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