WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia put the call out for “rational” Jewish people to back up her claim that mask mandates are like the Holocaust. Her colleagues think that’s nuts. The latest controversy involving the freshman Republican lawmaker started on Friday when she appeared on a podcast hosted by Christian Broadcasting…
A group of nine leading Hasidic sects in Brookyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, including the two large Satmar factions, have decided to back Andrew Yang as their first choice for mayor, sources who were involved in Monday night’s decision told the Forward. The endorsement locks up the Orthodox voting block for Yang, one of the leading candidates…
(JTA) — Prominent Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s World Values Network took out a full-page New York Times ad on Saturday denouncing the British pop star Dua Lipa’s criticism of Israel on social media, and the singer responded, saying the ad was full of “falsehoods and blatant misrepresentations.” The Grammy-winning megastar had reposted several messages on Instagram…
(JTA) — Lily Ebert is 97. Her great-grandson, Dov Forman, helped her create a Tik Tok account so she could tell its youthful community about surviving Auschwitz. On May 14, instead of one of her pithy recollections, Ebert had a simple message for 90,000 followers, delivered from her London home: “Wishing you a lovely, peaceful…
SKOKIE, Ill. (JTA) — After a synagogue in this Chicago suburb was vandalized on May 16 in what police are calling a hate crime, local rabbis could not dwell on the damage: They had to prepare for Shavuot, the two-day Jewish holiday that began that evening. A week later, though, the rabbis were the engine…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden on Monday condemned attacks on Jews in the United States and overseas, saying “they must stop. His pronouncement on Twitter came days after leading national Jewish organizations urged him to speak out. “The recent attacks on the Jewish community are despicable, and they must stop,” Biden tweeted. “I condemn…
(JTA) — Fourteen people, including five members of an Israeli family, were killed in a cable car accident in northern Italy on Sunday. The accident near Lake Maggiore claimed the lives of husband and wife Amit Biran, 30, and Tal Peleg-Biran, 26; their 2-year-old, Tom; and two of Peleg-Biran’s grandparents, Barbara and Yitzhak Cohen, aged…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Hundreds of people rallied for Israel in New York City days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and following a string of antisemitic assaults and harassment in the United States. The demonstration on Sunday in downtown Manhattan, organized by the Israeli-American Council and other pro-Israel organizations, principally featured…
(JTA) — At least four cases of intimidation or assault against Jews have been reported in the United States since Thursday, in a continuation of what many fear is one of the country’s worst spate in years of antisemitic violence. On Saturday, six men assaulted and punched two Jewish teenagers in Brooklyn on 18th Avenue…
David Weprin, a state assemblyman from Queens, unveiled a bill Thursday that would require cash bail for suspects arrested and charged with hate crimes. The measure, he says, will help combat an alarming rise in antisemitic and anti-Asian incidents across New York City. It also comes at a time of increasing violent attacks against Jews…
Antisemitic harassment has roiled the streets of Miami and South Florida in the wake of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The most alarming incident took place earlier this week in Bal Harbour, a small, wealthy municipality in northern Miami Beach. According to a report on Ch. 10, the local ABC affiliate, four men shouted hateful slogans and…
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