New York State has put Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company Unilever on a 90-day notice that all its government agencies and departments will likely soon divest from the companies because of the ice-cream maker’s decision early this summer to end sales in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The move complies with an executive order…
A new report shows antisemitic hate crimes declined in Los Angeles County last year from the year prior, even as hate crimes in the county increased by 20% overall and antisemitic incidents nationwide remained high. The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations’ 2020 Hate Crime Report shows the number of antisemitic hate crimes decreased…
(JTA) — In 2012, Josh Mandel’s political future was glowing. As Ohio’s state treasurer, he ran for a U.S. Senate seat as a young conservative Marine vet with deep ties to local and national Jewish communities. Despite the fact that he lost the election to the incumbent, Democrat Sherrod Brown, Mandel stayed on the rise,…
(JTA) — Excommunicating someone from the Jewish community is no laughing matter. Unless you’re taking their last “Jewish card” because of their opinions on cinnamon-sugar bagels or the movie “Wet Hot American Summer.” Then you might just be playing a game of Jewish Card Revoked. Modeled after the popular games “Black Card Revoked” and “Latino…
(JTA) — Anthony Firkser didn’t start playing football until his sophomore year of high school. That may not sound strange for the average person — but for someone who is now a professional NFL player, it’s a much later start than most of his peers. The reason? His Jewish mom, wary about the dangers of the…
(JTA) — Two leaders of Lev Tahor, a fundamentalist Jewish sect, were found guilty on Wednesday of kidnapping and child sexual exploitation crimes by a federal jury in White Plains, New York. Nachman Helbrans and Mayer Rosner face a sentence of up to life in prison after a four-week trial over the abduction of two…
(JTA) — A suspect has been arrested related to a fire set at an Austin synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, on Oct. 31. Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, was arrested Wednesday by arson investigators with the Austin Fire Department. Investigators identified Sechriest using surveillance footage that showed the license plate on the car he allegedly used to…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In what was billed as her first speech to a Jewish audience as New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul vowed to fight hate crimes and criticized fellow Democrats over their positions on Israel. The speech, delivered virtually to the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York on…
(JTA) — A French court sentenced a man to life in prison for what it termed the antisemitic murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris in 2018. The murderer of Mirelle Knoll, Yacine Mihoub, will be eligible for parole in 22 years, according to the ruling Wednesday by the Criminal Tribunal of Paris, AFP reported….
In an attempt to discredit one of the investigators in his sexual assault inquiry, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo referred to Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, as his questioner’s “rabbi.” That’s according to the transcript released Wednesday by the office of state Attorney General Letitia James. In a contentious 10-hour interview under oath…
SEATTLE (JTA) — Eastern Washington is a region that, for the last half-century, was far better known for its hate groups than its Jewish community. Spokane and the surrounding area was infamously a hotbed of racism from the 1970s through the 1990s, a time period that included multiple acts of vandalism and neo-Nazi intimidation at…
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