(JTA) — A coalition of Jewish groups say NFL star DeSean Jackson needs an education about “how dangerous and pernicious antisemitism and all forms of hate are” — and the groups say they are willing to teach him. Jackson in recent days posted quotes on social media attributed to Adolf Hitler and Louis Farrakhan. The…
(JTA) — An Islamic civil liberties and advocacy organization will represent a man who has been denied kosher food in a Michigan jail. The Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said in a statement issued Monday that it would appear as legal representative for Brandon Resch, an inmate in the…
An Oklahoma man was arrested last month after being accused of shooting a woman who tried to steal one of the many Nazi flags he flies on his property, NBC News reported. Alexander John Feaster has been charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon and shooting with intent to kill. Authorities in Hunter,…
(JTA) — Conservative news outlets, including some reporting on the Jewish community, were duped into publishing Middle East “hot takes” from fake columnists, the Daily Beast reported. The news outlets, including The Jerusalem Post and Jewish News Syndicate, were among 46 publications that published opinion pieces by 19 nonexistent authors originating from a massive Middle…
A new book claims that Katie Miller, Mike Pence’s press secretary and the wife of Stephen Miller, felt no compassion for the migrant families separated at the border. “My family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I’ll think about family separation differently,” Miller (then going by her maiden name, Waldman) is quoted…
(JTA) – A last-ditch effort by Orthodox Jews in New York to clear the way for overnight camps this summer fell short Monday as a federal judge declined to intervene against Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to keep the camps closed. The judge was responding to a lawsuit brought last month by the Association of Jewish…
DeSean Jackson, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles football team, posted quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler before later saying he has no “hate towards the Jewish community.” On Monday, Jackson shared a quote falsely attributed to Hitler on his Instagram Stories. The quote, which has been deemed inauthentic by the fact-checking site Snopes, states…
(JTA) — The New York Jewish Week said it will put its print edition on hiatus as it transitions to a “digital-first model.” The last print edition of the nearly 150-year-old weekly — at least for now — is scheduled for July 31, according to an announcement published Tuesday on The Jewish Week website. The…
NEW YORK (JTA) — At 4 a.m., Israeli rocker Aviv Gefen was still crying, head in hands, in the empty Haifa-area amphitheater where he had performed the previous late May evening. Staff members urged him to go home. In a televised interview days later, the popular performer described what had happened. Due to the COVID-19 crisis,…
BERLIN (JTA) — There were approximately 30,000 Jews in the city of Frankfurt before World War II, making it the largest community in Germany. By the time the U.S. military occupied the city in 1945, there were only about 100 left. “Jewish life was destroyed,” said Tobias Freimuller, author of the recently published “Frankfurt and…
A rural Kansas newspaper owned by a Republican Party chairman retracted a cartoon, widely criticized as anti-Semitic, that equated the state’s lockdown rules to the Holocaust. The cartoon, posted to the Facebook page of the newspaper on Friday, depicted Kansas’ Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, wearing a face mask with a Star of David on it,…
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