A Jewish couple in New Zealand decided to perform a ritual circumcision on their son themselves, after determining that the country’s travel restrictions would make getting a mohel to fly in for the procedure impossible. Noam and Elisheva Fogel waited five months to conduct the circumcision ceremony, called a brit milah or a bris, which…
Vandals spray-painted “Free Palestine” in front of Beth Hillel Temple during demonstrations protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha early Thursday morning. A reporter for the conservative news outlet Town Hall tweeted a video displaying the graffiti. Other property in Kenosha, including at least one church, also were vandalized or otherwise took damage…
The 2018 video claims ‘Zionist supremacists’ are attempting to replace white European populations.
(JTA) – If New York City’s mayor won’t stop weddings in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods from happening, the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said Wednesday that he will. “If the mayor is not doing any enforcement actions, then the state will,” Cuomo said at a news conference, according to the New York Post. “We’ve had superspreader events…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Kamala Harris, the California senator who is the Democratic vice presidential nominee, told Jewish supporters that Joe Biden, the presidential nominee, would not condition aid to Israel. “Joe has made it clear he will not tie security assistance to any political decisions that Israel makes and I couldn’t agree more,” Harris said…
A day after the last-minute ouster of a scheduled speaker at the Republican National Convention due to accusations of antisemitic Twitter activity, another guest is also attracting criticism. Madison Cawthorn, 24, is the Republican nominee in a solid-red North Carolina congressional district. He has also garnered attention for a series of posts and actions that…
(JTA) — An Uber passenger in Melbourne, Australia, ordered his driver to pull over and let him out of the vehicle after finding out the driver was Jewish. And he filmed it. “So you’re Jewish?” the passenger asked the driver from the backseat on Tuesday. “All right. Just stop on the left, man. Just stop…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jared Kushner will be aboard when the first commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates takes off next week. Monday’s flight will carry an Israeli delegation as well as Kushner, the White House senio- r adviser; U.S. Middle East peace negotiator Avi Berkowitz; and National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, according…
This story was updated to reflect breaking developments. Moments before she was scheduled to speak to the Republican National Convention, Mary Ann Mendoza was dropped from the lineup after she tweeted out a warning about a supposed international Jewish cabal. “Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” Mendoza tweeted, linking to a QAnon conspiracy…
FRANKFURT, Germany (JTA) — Although she was born in this city, Anne Frank is mainly associated with Amsterdam, where she hid during the Holocaust and wrote her famous diaries. Now a new $58 million Jewish museum in the heart of Frankfurt is preparing to showcase the Frank family’s deep attachment to a city they left…
(JTA) — The British rapper Wiley in a new interview repeated tropes about Jewish power and money that saw him removed from social media platforms. Wiley doubled down on many of his remarks, including that Jews “run the Earth,” are very rich and “stick together,” in an interview with the “1 Po Show” on the…
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