(JTA) — The board of directors of a Utah-based property management software firm asked its chairman to quit after he sent an email accusing Jews of planning “genocide” through COVID and its vaccine. “Entrata’s board of directors today asked Dave Bateman to resign from the company’s board of directors, including his position as chairman,” said…
Editor’s note: After an immediate backlash, Bateman announced his resignation from the company on Tuesday night. (JTA) — The founder and chairman of a major property management software firm told a coterie of associates, including the governor of Utah, that COVID was a deadly Jewish plot. “I believe there is a sadistic effort underway to…
A Holocaust survivor is using TikTok to push back against anti-vaxxers who compare vaccine mandates to the genocide. 86-year-old Gidon Lev made waves with a post in response to a user who posted a video of herself with a buzz cut, saying it was her “first day at an unvaccinated camp.” “Shame on you,” Lev…
A Jewish contributor to the BBC has resigned, citing antisemitism in the network’s coverage of a recent attack on Jewish passengers on a Chabad bus in London. In his resignation letter, which he posted on Facebook, Rabbi YY Rubinstein wrote that the BBC’s coverage of the bus attack “attempts to turn the victims of the…
(JTA) — A fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine increases antibodies fivefold in patients who receive the shots, preliminary findings from an Israeli study show. Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced the news at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, alongside Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay, a lead researcher on the study. The results…
On the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, the streets of downtown Washington were nearly empty of well-wishers and tourists. In their place: National Guard troops. The nation was still reeling from the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier that month. But there was one group of visitors who were not sporting camouflage….
(JTA) — On Friday morning, most of the people bustling through Beit Shemesh, a town in central Israel with a large haredi Orthodox population, were getting ready for Shabbat. Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll had a different mission. Keats-Jaskoll was handing out flyers with messages of support for victims of sexual abuse, in a public display of solidarity…
(JTA) — Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, had a message for the actress Emma Watson after an Instagram account in her name posted a message that was in apparent solidarity with Palestinians: It’ll take more than magic to solve the conflict. “Fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not work…
(JTA) — At least 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews have become citizens of Portugal or Spain since 2015, when those countries passed laws offering a naturalization process for such applicants, according to the most updated information data from the two countries. The laws were meant to atone for the Inquisition, a campaign of religious persecution…
(JTA) — Julie Plaut Warwick and Ben Schreiber faced the same dilemma as many other couples planning a wedding during the pandemic: How to create a feeling of togetherness when guests may not feel safe attending? “We wanted to be surrounded by our family and friends and have their blessings, as we had no idea…
(JTA) — Israel is set to begin administering a second booster shot to Israelis over 60 and to medical workers who received their first booster at least four months ago in a bid to protect vulnerable segments of the population against the Omicron variant currently sweeping through the country Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett…
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