Lawmakers introduced a bill to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s National Assembly which, if passed, would sideline popular candidate Moise Katumbi. It seems that Katumbi’s problem is his Sephardic-Jewish father. More specifically, the bill aims to ban anyone without two Congolese parents from running for the presidency. Katumbi is the only current major candidate…
Public school board members in Los Angeles voted Tuesday to require updated resources and training to prevent antisemitism on and off school campuses, part of a broad resolution to address “a significant rise in hate crimes here in Los Angeles.” Put forth by Board of Education member Scott Schmerelson, the resolution also requires all history…
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a suit against The City University of New York and its trustees filed by an Orthodox Jewish woman who claims that she was denied admission to the university’s social work school because of her religious background. The applicant, Faigy Rachel Weiss of Brooklyn, plausibly alleges that university officials…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republicans and others are calling Mark Zuckerberg “Zuckerbucks.” The Anti-Defamation League wants that to stop, claiming the term suggests that “rich Jews are controlling levers of power.” The Zuckerbucks term has been circulating since last year, when the Facebook founder and his wife, Priscilla Chan, steered $400 million through the nonpartisan Center…
In 2019, Israeli archaeologists dug up a pottery fragment in the Judean foothills. Akin to the disposable ‘plasticware’ of the ancient world, broken pottery is nothing out of the ordinary for near-eastern archaeologists, and almost any dig site of significance will be littered with dozens if not hundreds of pieces. This piece, however, was special….
The Israel Baseball Shop has released a limited edition bobblehead of Team Israel pitcher Shlomo Lipetz. The longest-tenured member of the Israeli National Baseball Team, Lipetz has played for the Israeli Baseball League since pitching in its inaugural season in 2007. The bobblehead, sponsored by custom yarmulke company Klipped Kippahs, features a mid-sidearm pitch and…
(JTA) — It has now become a doubly historic Major League Baseball draft. The Washington Nationals selected Elie Kligman with their final and 20th round pick on Tuesday, making him the second observant Orthodox Jewish player ever drafted into the league — and the second in two days. The Arizona Diamondbacks picked 17-year-old Long Island,…
(JTA) — A professor who was fired from an Oregon university after publicly criticizing its president for antisemitism and neglecting sexual harassment allegations has sued the university for $4 million. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured English professor at the Baptist-affiliated Linfield University, had accused President Miles Davis of making multiple antisemitic remarks to him in recent…
(JTA) — For years after World War II, the once magnificent Goerlitz Synagogue in Germany housed a family with goats and pigs. The roof of the Art Deco building was crumbling; the government came close to demolishing the whole structure. But this week, that very synagogue — the only one in the state of Saxony…
(JTA) — A survey of U.S. Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing genocide and apartheid. Among respondents to the survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by prominent Jewish Democrats, 34% agreed that…
(JTA) — British Jewish leaders say an anticipated apology from the Church of England for antisemitic laws enacted in 1222 is “better late than never.” The church is planning a formal “act of repentance” for next year, the 800th anniversary of the Synod of Oxford, a set of laws that restricted Jews’ rights to engage…
