Police officers went undercover as Hasidic Jews to monitor protests against racism and police brutality in a majority-Jewish New Jersey town, Mishpacha reported. The rally in Lakewood, N.J. on Saturday was one of hundreds around the country over the weekend protesting the killing of an African-American man, George Floyd, while being forcibly detained by police….
(JTA) — The mayor of Newark plans to ask the city council to approve an ordinance declaring white supremacist groups to be terrorists and ban them from the city. Mayor Ras Baraka announced Friday that he would seek to have the city establish a database of existing American hate groups and outlaw any actions they…
(JTA) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that houses of worship can reopen on a limited scale. Cuomo announced on Saturday that as New York’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis continues to move forward, the state can loosen some restrictions put into place to stem the pandemic. As part of the loosening, religious services…
A federal judge denied the infamous Jewish Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff compassionate release from prison Thursday, confirming that he wants the financier to die behind bars. Judge Denny Chin, the same judge who signed off on Madoff’s 150-year sentence in 2009, said, “it was fully my intent that he live out the rest of…
After photos of a Penn State student posing with a swastika drawn on her shoulder circulated on social media, a petition called on the university to expel her. So next up on the Hallahan exposure list is Ryann Milligan (the blonde) posed with two other girls that have swastikas drawn on their backs clear as…
Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19 — and taken by him to prevent contracting the disease — does not prevent against coronavirus infection when taken prophylactically, a new study found. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first double-blind, placebo-controlled study…
(JTA) — U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat in her first term, has endorsed the Democratic primary challenger in her home state of New York facing veteran congressman Eliot Engel. In a late-night series of tweets Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez backed Jamaal Bowman, an African-American educator, over Engel, a 16-term lawmaker who heads the powerful House…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that he is looking to cut up to $150 million from the budget of the Los Angeles Police Department, a reversal from his previous plans to boost their spending by 7%. Garcetti, who is Jewish, said in a press conference that those savings would go towards “reinvesting in…
At the request of a National Guardsman from Utah, protestors sang a canonical Jewish plea for peace at protests outside the White House on Tuesday night, according to video from the scene. “Shalom rav al Yisrael amcha, tasim l’olam,” sing multiple voices out of the frame, as three Guardsmen watch and one in particular grins…
(JTA) — A Los Angeles synagogue found itself having to deny misinformation about the George Floyd protests after a rumor spread — and was briefly amplified by the White House — that its security barriers were actually tools for looters. Chabad of Sherman Oaks installed vertical barriers filled with rocks last year in a move…
(JTA) — U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein, the highest-ranking Jewish officer in the American military, called the death of George Floyd a “national tragedy.” In a memo distributed late Monday asking commanders to “ensure wide distribution of this message,” Goldfein, a general, said that “every American should be outraged that the conduct…
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