(JTA) — Ivanka Trump traveled to New Jersey with her family to spend Passover at a Trump family residence, despite federal guidelines against discretionary travel. Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three young children traveled from Washington D.C. to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, where they celebrated the first night…
The Anti-Semitism Accountability Project and the America China Public Affairs Institute have created a portal to report coronavirus-related hate speech and bias crimes against minority groups. Victims of bias-crimes can report them through an online form on ASAP’s website. The results will be used to “identify trends and raise awareness of this growing crisis among…
An African-American radio host’s public blaming of Jews for Baltimore’s coronavirus outbreak led to an accusation of anti-Semitism, particularly since data shows that the city’s COVID-19 hotspots include neighborhoods popular with both Jews and black residents. “There are a lot of Jewish people moving down here from New York City,” the host, George Mitchell, said…
The attorney representing the man who stabbed multiple people in Monsey, N.Y. at a December 28 Hanukkah celebration wants to exhume and examine the body of Josef Neumann, who died while in a coma that resulted from being stabbed in the attack. Michael Sussman is representing Grafton Thomas, who has been charged with murder after…
BOSTON (JTA) – Thirty-two residents at two Jewish senior living facilities that are part of the same nonprofit network have died from COVID-19, and scores of other residents and staff have tested positive for the virus. Eleven residents of Chelsea Jewish Life Care, across its three Boston-area locations, and 21 residents at JGS Lifecare in…
Democrat Jill Karofsky, a circuit court judge in Wisconsin’s Dane County, was declared the winner of a Supreme Court election in the Badger State on Monday, defeating an incumbent Republican in what was seen by both parties as a bellwether for the November presidential election. Karofsky, who is Jewish, won 55% of the vote against…
(JTA) — A Maryland man accused of painting a swastika on a local synagogue had firebombed a nearby church as part of his plan to target multiple houses of worship to worship Satan, police said. Andrew Costas, 28, of Rockville was arrested this week in connection with the anti-Semitic vandalism on March 28 at the…
(JTA) — Yefim Haim Goldberg, a 106-year-old Jewish veteran of World War II who was honored frequently by the governments of Belarus and Russia, has died in Russia. Goldberg served in the Red Army’s 36th Tank Brigade and the troops he commanded — he was in charge of a platoon — continued from the Belarusian…
(JTA) — The coronavirus has spread rapidly among members of the Jewish community of Antwerp, which has a large Orthodox population. At least five have died and another 10 are hospitalized in serious condition. But the virus is hardly ever mentioned there by name. “People call it ‘the disease’ or they say they have ‘fallen…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders joined his old friend Joe Biden in a live webcast to endorse him on Monday, and the two candidates left standing in the Democratic primaries emphasized that they agree on more than what they disagree on. “Today I am asking all Americans, I am asking every Democrat, I am asking…
(JTA) — Season 3 of the hit Israeli series “Fauda” will begin airing this week on Netflix. “Fauda” focuses on a commando unit of the Israeli army whose members embed themselves in the Palestinian community, gathering intelligence and preventing terror attacks. This season, which launches Thursday with English subtitles, will focus on Gaza. In Israel,…
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