(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died. Twerski was 90 and had been battling COVID-19 in Israel, according to Yeshiva World News. Born in Milwaukee into a family…
(JTA) — Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman who has advanced a range of dangerous conspiracy theories, including some that are explicitly antisemitic, is refusing to step down or even apologize, despite increasingly fierce criticism from Jewish groups and others. Among Greene’s critics are right-wing and centrist Jewish groups that do not frequently criticize Republican…
(JTA) — A bomb exploded outside of the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on Friday, damaging three nearby cars but not causing any injuries. Local police described it as a “very low-intensity improvised device” and said an investigation so far “suggests a mischievous attempt to create a sensation,” according to The Times of Israel. Israel’s…
(JTA) — Among the many posts being unearthed amid renewed scrutiny of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s social media history is one in which the new congresswoman implicated “Rothschild Inc” in connection with a deadly forest fire that, she wrote, was started using laser beams from space. Greene, a freshman Republican from Georgia who made waves during…
Dianne Feinstein Elementary School will be renamed, along with about a third of San Francisco’s other public schools, according to a report in Jweekly.com. The move comes after the San Francisco Board of Education voted overwhelmingly to change the names of 44 schools whose namesakes were associated with racism and white supremacy. Their issue with…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Statements and appearances by U.S. officials suggest the Biden administration’s emerging Mideast strategy: reassuring Israel while resuming ties with the Palestinians ruptured by President Joe Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the acting ambassador to the United Nations outlined plans to reverse Trump administration policies concerning the Palestinians. “The Biden administration will…
(JTA) — The government of Luxembourg, which for decades has avoided paying Holocaust restitution to most of its survivors for property they lost, has agreed to pay $1.2 million in symbolic compensation. On Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the grand duchy signed an agreement with the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the local Jewish community…
Four men who were involved in the kidnapping and murder of Jewish American journalist Daniel Pearl are set to be released by Pakistani authorities. The news comes just days before the nineteenth anniversary of the event. Their release comes after a court in Pakistan’s Sindh province vacated the men’s murder convictions last year for their…
A crocheted version of Senator Bernie Sanders’ now-famous mittens-and-mask pose on Inauguration Day sold for more than $20,000 after only two days of bidding on ebay. The doll was initially posted by its creator, Tobey King, with a starting bid of 99 cents, but 167 bids later it skyrocketed to $20,300. Crochet Bernie, this is…
(JTA) — The mayor of Antwerp, a city in Belgium where about 15,000 haredi Orthodox Jews live, warned that their failure to comply with COVID-19 measures has triggered anti-Semitism — and it could turn into a wave. “In the Jewish community, not everyone realizes this, they have their own logic, but the backlash of public…
It’s official: the Kansas City Chiefs will be playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 55th Super Bowl in Florida. While there won’t be many Jews on the field, there will be at least one prominent Jewish family keeping a close eye from the stands – the Glazer family who have owned the Buccaneers since…
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