Andrew Yang, one of the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, toured one of the most populated Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn on Friday. Accompanied by a crew of cameras, Yang visited a local toy store called Toys4U and engaged with voters on 13th Avenue, one of the busiest streets in Borough Park. “It…
(JTA) — Israeli police beat up a left-wing member of parliament and one officer knelt on his face, drawing outcry from across the political spectrum. Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish member of the Arab-Israeli Joint List party in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, was at a protest against evictions in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh…
(JTA) — The Supreme Court extended a string of decisions overturning pandemic restrictions on religious gatherings, ruling Friday night that California’s restrictions on at-home gatherings unfairly limited religious freedom. The 5-4 ruling, in which Chief Justice John Roberts again joined the liberal justices in the minority, lifted rules limiting at-home gatherings in much of the…
Carlson has said Democrats are coordinating a ‘replacement’ of current U.S. voters
Brandeis has extended the contact of President Ron Liebowitz for another five-year term, the university confirmed today. The news ends a dust-up between Liebowitz and the Board over his tenure and ensures continuity as the university navigates the new academic world brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The board had originally only offered Liebowitz a…
(JTA) — Prince Philip, perhaps the closest member of the British royal family to Jews and Jewish causes, has died at 99. Buckingham Palace announced his death on Friday. Philip, who had been married to Queen Elizabeth II for 74 years, since five years before she ascended to the throne, had been in declining health…
(JTA) — Daniel Cox, a Maryland Republican in the state legislature, said he would mark Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, by voting against a bill that would allow children to consent to mental health care. Cox said his mask had a picture from the Nuremberg trials printed on it, and compared the bill to…
The University of Miami Hillel is organizing a Zoom event next Tuesday with Meyers Leonard, the NBA player who came under attack for using an antisemitic slur, titled “From Heat to Healing.” The frank conversation with the 29-year-old power forward will be led by Matthew Hiltzik, a PR consultant and producer of the Holocaust documentary…
The chief editor of the Jewish Press, an Orthodox newspaper in New York, attended the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, POLITICO reported after reviewing video footage of the attack. Elliot Resnick, who interviewed the lawyer defending former President Donald Trump in February, has been a longtime supporter of Trump. He wrote a personal essay for the…
Congressman Jamaal Bowman from New York engaged in a “thoughtful conversation” with Israel Nitzan, acting Israeli consul general in New York, on Wednesday. Bowman, who defeated longtime congressman Eliot Engel in the 16th District last year, criticized Israel earlier this year for not offering to distribute coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians living in the West Bank…
(JTA) — In the middle of a racy viral Instagram video that preceded his firing from a broadcasting gig at ESPN, NBA legend Paul Pierce spent over a minute lauding the Jewish ritual of a sit-down Shabbat dinner. Pierce is not Jewish, but during the live-streamed video from his house over the weekend — the…
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