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,…
(JTA) — The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum waded into the current debate over tearing down statues of historical figures, noting that there’s a difference between preserving a historic site and statues meant to honor historic figures. “We can see a lot of ‘Auschwitz’ mentions recently,” the museum tweeted on Sunday. “Remember that a preserved historic…
(JTA) — Bumped from FOX Soul TV, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan took to YouTube this weekend for a three-hour July Fourth address in which he addressed criticism of his record of anti-Semitism. “They tell lies to make you think I am a bigot or anti-Semite, so that you won’t listen to what I’m…
(JTA) — A Jewish camp in Pennsylvania is delaying its opening date after a counselor tested positive for coronavirus upon arriving at camp, in a scenario that could foreshadow the rocky path ahead for child care settings amid the deepening pandemic. Camp Seneca Lake, one of the few Jewish overnight camps to open this year…
(JTA) — A California trade union placed a political advertisement on Facebook about a Jewish state senator that evoked anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews and money. The State Building and Construction Trades Council later removed the ad and apologized after being called out by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, the political news website CalMatters reported Tuesday….
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former confidante of serial sex offender Jeffrey Eptstein, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday morning, NBC news reported. Law enforcement apprehended Maxwell in Bedford, N.H. and charged her with conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. She is expected to appear in federal court on Thursday. Epstein himself was arrested in…
Pro-Palestinian groups held a series of protest demonstrations across the United States on Wednesday against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, an endeavor that the groups referred to as a “day of rage.” In San Diego, protesters held a socially-distanced “car caravan,” traveling to honk outside several local government centers and Jewish…
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