Merrick Garland would have become the fourth Jewish member of the Supreme Court. Now all indications are he’ll become the next attorney general. According to Politico, Joe Biden will nominate Garland to the country’s top law enforcement post. Garland, whose nomination to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama was thwarted by Senate Republicans, is…
Raphael Warnock never shied away from the historic nature of his run to become the first Black Senator from Georgia. On the campaign trail, he regularly invoked his experience growing up in public housing before becoming minister of a prominent Black church in Atlanta before running alongside Jon Ossoff, the Jewish son of an immigrant…
(JTA) — An anonymous Twitter account that mooed at antisemitic tweeters before quitting the platform returned Monday night to take the platform to task one last time. “You have failed the people who use this platform,” Antisemitism Cow tweeted, tagging Twitter and its CEO, Jack Dorsey. “There is no excuse for your allowing Nazis with…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden tapped Wendy Sherman, an Iran nuclear deal architect, to be his deputy secretary of state — a signal of his determination to return to the deal, Politico reported Tuesday. Sherman, who is Jewish, was the lead negotiator for the 2015 pact, which swapped sanctions relief for Iran’s rollback of…
The Associated Press has called the the two contests for Georgia’s senate in favor of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff, both democratic candidates. Ossoff — who became the first Jewish Senator from the Deep South since Reconstruction — already declared victory in a thank-you video to his voters Wednesday morning. Jon @Ossoff just…
Zana Sadikario-Saatsoglou, a Thessalonikan Jew and Holocaust survivor, became one of the first people in Greece to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday. 98-year-old Sadikario-Saatsoglou received the vaccine at Thessaloniki’s Saul Modiano Old Age Home, which serves its Jewish community. Greece received nearly 10,000 doses of the vaccine in late December and began rolling them…
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, a group of self proclaimed “western chauvinists” who often border on white supremacy and antisemitism, was taken into custody by Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department Monday. Tarrio leads the group that President Donald Trump told to stand back and stand by during a debate with President-Elect Biden in…
A top Queens official named to his post withdrew Monday after tweets surfaced in which he criticized Israeli policies and lobbying. Michael Hurwitz, who is Jewish, was tapped as a deputy borough president for Donovan Richards, but Richards’ office tweeted that “for professional and personal reasons,” he would not take his position. For professional and…
Just ahead of Tuesday’s contentious runoff elections for Georgia’s two Senate seats, Laura Ingraham of Fox News likened the Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, to the so-called Squad in the House of Representatives. “Warnock and Ossoff will be the Senate version, when you really think about it, of the Squad,” Ingraham…
(JTA) — A white supremacist group from New Jersey posted more than a dozen anti-Semitic flyers on Staten Island. The flyers, found over the weekend in the New York City borough, are emblazoned with a Jewish star and falsely claim that Antifa, the loose anti-fascist network, is a Jewish organization that is anti-white. “The original…
(JTA) — A popular British children’s author omitted “The Merchant of Venice” from his adaptation of William Shakespeare plays for young audiences. One reason: anti-Semitism. “Yes, there was some worry that this might be the first time an 8-year-old reads about a Jew,” Michael Morpurgo told The Guardian on Monday about the decision not to…
100% of profits support our journalism
