(JTA) — A woman was killed at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center in Florida’s Miami-Dade County Sunday in what police are calling an act of domestic violence. Police said the woman was killed by her husband while she attended her daughter’s swimming lesson. In a statement, the JCC said police believed there to be “no…
(JTA) — A security guard at a Jewish day school in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested and charged with making terrorist threats against the students and parents at the school. Thomas Develin, 24, worked as a security guard at Columbus Torah Academy, a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school for students from kindergarten through high school, until…
In her first appearance since the Senate confirmed her to the position of special envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism, Deborah E. Lipstadt, met on Friday with a group of Jewish cadets and midshipmen in the service academy who were attending the Jewish Warrior Weekend in Atlanta. Her appearance was scheduled before her confirmation. Lipstadt…
(JTA) — Estelle Harris, the actress who played George Costanza’s mother on the sitcom “Seinfeld,” died Saturday at the age of 93. Harris played the role of Estelle Costanza, the always shrill and frequently apoplectic mother to George Costanza, on the sitcom from 1992 until the show’s finale in 1998. According to Deadline, the character…
(JTA) — A judge in London has sentenced to 18 months in jail a Jewish real estate mogul who, among other abuses against his wife, refused to allow her to divorce him in a religious court. Alan Moher, 57, pleaded guilty to the charges of controlling or coercive behavior and was sentenced Friday, the Daily…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The director of Amnesty International’s U.S. branch apologized to Jewish lawmakers for claiming to speak on behalf of American Jews. “I regret representing the views of the Jewish people,” Paul O’Brien said in a March 25 letter, first reported by Jewish Insider, to all 25 Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week) — New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert on Friday urging Jews to be mindful of discriminatory pricing practices at car washes in the days leading up to Passover. In previous years, some car wash businesses reportedly raised prices by as much as 50 percent in predominantly…
(JTA) — Police in western Ukraine arrested a man they suspect stabbed the leader of a Jewish community on Thursday. The assailant stabbed Igor Perelman, the director of the Jewish Community of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, where many refugees have fled to escape Russian attacks in the eastern part of the country,…
(JTA) — Hungary is nearing one of the most dramatic general elections in its history, so Peter Pretz has given some serious consideration to how he’s going to vote on April 3. The 64-year-old Jewish father of five from Budapest has finally reached a decision: He’s voting for the Two Tailed Dog Party, which was…
A group of progressive rabbis and Jewish groups are calling on New York lawmakers to reject the governor’s plan to tweak the state’s new bail reform law in a budget deal expected to be passed by Monday. The governor’s plan would restore bail requirements for people accused of hate crimes. “As Jews, we are called…
The rabbi taken hostage in his Texas synagogue in January will be the guest speaker next week at a Ramadan celebration hosted by a nonprofit that aims to strengthen Jewish-Muslim relations. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker will address the guests on April 7 at a virtual iftar, or meal to end the daily fast during the Muslim…
