WASHINGTON (JTA) — Stephen Breyer, the oldest justice on the Supreme Court and one of its minority of three liberal justices, is set to retire, multiple reports said Wednesday. The move would leave Elena Kagan as the only Jewish justice left on the court. Breyer, 83, has come under pressure to retire ever since President…
Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s most-watched political commentator, has decided to broaden his scope from the U.S. to Hungary with a new documentary feature investigating “how one nation stopped George Soros from undermining civilization.” Arriving Wednesday on Fox Nation, Fox’s streaming service, “Hungary vs. Soros: The Fight for Civilization” is the season finale of “Tucker Carlson…
This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Dara Horn may be enjoying the success of her book “People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present,” but she confesses that its popularity is also a bit disturbing. A part of her “wishes people liked it a little bit less, because…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In the wake of an assault on a Jewish man in Brooklyn early Saturday morning, the Anti-Defamation League is offering up to $5,000 for information about the person or persons responsible for the attack. The New York Police Department is seeking to identify a suspect who, on…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a “major push” to double funding for grants to enhance security at nonprofit organizations following the hostage-taking at a Texas synagogue earlier this month. “Our religious spaces — our churches, synagogues, mosques or temples — should be places of peace, not places of fear, not places of worry, and…
(JTA) — Items from the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library are being sold at online auction this week and include a range of works from her law school textbooks to copies of celebrity memoirs and books by her fellow Supreme Court justices. The auction, which is being conducted by Bonham’s and ends…
(JTA) —The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will return a 17th-century painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish collector to whom the painting was lost during the Holocaust. The 1646 painting, “View of Beverwijk” by Salomon van Ruysdael, will be auctioned in April and is expected to sell for between $500,000…
SARASOTA, Fla. (JTA) — Flyers blaming Jews for COVID-19 were found in multiple cities in Florida and in San Francisco this weekend, less than two months after similar ones were found in at least eight states nationwide. The Mayor of Miami Beach, Dan Gelber, who is Jewish, saw some of the flyers Sunday morning while…
(JTA) – There’s a good chance that when you logged on to Twitter today, you were met with tweets showing off grids of yellow, green and black squares. There’s also a good chance that you posted a similar grid. Many of the more than 2 million people who have taken to playing the Wordle word…
(JTA) — Seven American Jewish organizations released an open letter calling on Israel’s top leaders to take “unequivocal action” to stop “ongoing terrorism and political violence committed by Jewish Israeli extremists in the West Bank against Palestinians, Israeli civilians, and IDF soldiers.” “We urge the entire Israeli government to unite in strong condemnation against these…
(JTA) – Jane Yolen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s book author whose oeuvre of more than 400 books includes the bestselling Holocaust time-travel novel “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” was honored for her writing career by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Yolen received the Body-of-Work award from this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Awards, which recognize excellence in…
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