The California State Board of Education voted on Thursday to approve the most recent draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. The vote follows four years of contentious debate and objections leveled against the curriculum by Jewish organizations across the political spectrum. Nearly five years ago, California passed a bill, AB 2016, mandating a commission…
The Jewish vice chair of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, Tom Mountain, is using his personal experience with COVID-19 to appeal to his “fellow Republican men” to get vaccinated. In an op-ed published in the Boston Globe, Mountain recounted the “debilitating” case of COVID-19 he contracted two days after attending the White House Hanukkah Party…
In a move that will take him off the court for awhile, the Miami Heat has traded Meyers Leonard, the NBA star who was recently caught using an antisemitic slur while livestreaming a video game. The Heat traded Meyers, a 29-year-old power forward, to the Oklahoma City Thunder, but in a somewhat unusual move, the…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was stripped of her House committee assignments for antisemitic and other incendiary comments, said in an interview with an Orthodox weekly magazine published on Wednesday that “it really hurts” to be called an antisemite and racist. Greene visited Orthodox areas of Brooklyn and Long Island on Monday in a tour…
(JTA) — Doug Emhoff, the Jewish husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is on a swing through Western states with his wife to promote the benefits of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that the Biden administration just squeezed through Congress. There was a stop at a food bank in Las Vegas and at businesses in…
A group of more than 50 Jewish community leaders and top defense and foreign policy experts have signed a letter expressing strong support for Colin Kahl, President Joe Biden’s nominee for undersecretary of defense for policy. The letter, obtained by the Forward, comes as Republican-affiliated groups are targeting Kahl, a former Obama administration official, over…
(JTA) — Last year, the United States saw the most white supremacist propaganda in a decade, with thousands of flyers, bumper stickers, banners and other propaganda reported across the country, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL’s report, published Wednesday, counted 5,125 pieces of propaganda distributed by 30 white supremacist groups across 49 states in…
(JTA) — A Capitol Police officer has been suspended after a copy of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” an infamous anti-Semitic document, was found near his work area. The officer, part of the force that was overwhelmed during the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, is under investigation “after anti-Semitic reading material…
(JTA) — After successful lobbying by Orthodox Jewish groups and others, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tucked $2.75 billion in aid for private schools into the $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue package. The move came over the objections of some Democratic leaders, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and public school advocates who have fought efforts to…
(JTA) — Jewlia Eisenberg, who became an unlikely musical star by creating lively tunes inspired in part by arcane poetic and intellectual traditions, has died after struggling with the effects of a rare autoimmune disease. She was 50. The frontwoman for the band Charming Hostess, Eisenberg was a fixture of the avant-garde and experimental music…
(JTA) — Even among Jews in Poland, few are shocked at this point by the popular figurines of haredi Orthodox Jews counting money that are sold there as good luck charms. Yet even locals are pausing to take stock of the latest development on that controversial theme: scented candles that one retailer advertised as “giving…
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