(JTA) — Tel Aviv University announced the launch of what it says is the world’s first academic program focused on the holy scriptures of Ethiopian Jews. The program, aimed currently at graduate students, was announced last week by the university’s Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology. It is is titled Orit Apprehenders, which…
(JTA) — A judge in Georgia dismissed a lawsuit by the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who appears in “Borat 2.” Judith Dim Evans’ daughter claimed that her mother, who teaches the title character about the Holocaust in the film, was “horrified and upset” at learning after filming that Sacha Baron Cohen’s film was a…
It’s round two in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, as Scott Taylor, the Navy veteran who lost the seat in 2018 to Elaine Luria, tries to win it back from her. Luria is ahead by 7 points, according to a poll by Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center for Public Policy, and Taylor is attacking her patriotism….
Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, reported receiving a voicemail with violent threats at her campaign headquarters over the weekend. “This week, a caller left a voicemail at my campaign headquarters using threatening, sexually explicit, and violent language, including a threat to ‘shoot my way to victory,’” Slotkin said in a statement. Law enforcement determined…
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump visited the tomb of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as an election approaches that could oust her father from the presidency or give him another four years. Smartphone video posted on social media captured President Donald Trump’s daughter emerging, masked, on Thursday night from the “ohel,” a modest structure…
Eleven demonstrators were arrested on Sunday in Manhattan when a rally, organized by a group called “Jews for Trump,” clashed with an anti-Trump group in Times Square. According to the Associated Press, two caravans of cars, decked out with pro-Trump paraphernalia, including “Make America great again” flags and bumpers tickers, set out from Coney Island…
(JTA) — “BREAKING,” tweeted Mishpacha, a magazine for Orthodox Jews, Saturday night about a letter signed by 13 leading Orthodox rabbis demonstrating support for President Donald Trump days before the presidential election. In fact, the letter was not new. It had been written back in June, not to endorse Trump’s reelection but to thank him…
The U.K.’s Sky network suspended its game show, “The Chop: Britain’s Top Woodworker,” pending an investigation, after viewers recognized several Neo-Nazi and white supremacist tattoos on the face of one its contestants in a promotional video. WHAT THE FUCK, @HISTORYUK? I can see at least 5 recognised Nazi/white power tattoos on this guy’s face. Get…
Republican Madison Cawthorn, who is running for a North Carolina House seat, put up an attack website this week accusing his Jewish opponent Moe Davis of being backed by a supporter who “aims to ruin white males running for office.” Both Cawthorn and Davis are white men, but the website claims that a journalist named…
Sudan will become the third Arab country in the past two months to normalize ties with Israel, continuing the trend of Arab states’ willingness to advance ties with the Jewish state even without a peace agreement with the Palestinians. President Donald Trump announced the agreement on Friday. According to a joint statement released by Israel,…
A crisis that threatened to drive a deep wedge between Israel and the Diaspora Jewish communities was averted on Thursday evening, after a compromise was reached allowing the non-Orthodox movements and center-left parties to retain some influence in the key Zionist institutions. This agreement over the allocation of senior positions in the World Zionist Organization…
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