SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Why was a Nazi flag hanging on the wall inside a California parole office over the weekend? The state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has launched an investigation to find out. An anonymous video uploaded Saturday on Imgur, a video and photo sharing website, shows…
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to pass a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, but Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was one of only two Democrats to vote “present.” “My issue was not with the substance of this resolution. Of course we should acknowledge the Genocide,” she tweeted in response to MSNBC host…
A pathologist who gained some celebrity as an expert in the O.J. Simpson murder trial believes that Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a homicide, not a suicide. His report contradicts the findings of New York City’s chief medical examiner, and returns to the question of whether suicide could have caused certain broken bones in Epstein’s neck….
A top executive at CNN defended a political commentator who claimed on-air on Tuesday that impeachment investigation witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman might be loyal to Ukraine, which he left as a refugee at age three, Politico reported. Former Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, who joined the network on October 20, said Tuesday morning that Vindman…
BERLIN (JTA) – A 70-year-old man was beaten in Berlin in what news reports have described as an anti-Semitic incident. The victim suffered wounds to his head and chin in the Monday afternoon attack, which started with a verbal assault featuring anti-Semitic insults. He lost his balance and fell while trying to defend himself. The…
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was the latest figure to testify in the House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation on Tuesday. He recounted to congressional investigators that he had been troubled by President Trump’s conduct in connection to Ukraine policy. Here’s what you need to know about him: He’s a Ukrainian Jewish refugee: Alexander and his twin…
Updated November 1 A student and an employee of the University of Oregon have accused the school of illegally failing to include anti-Semitic incidents in its annually published list of campus crimes. Their latest report listed only one hate crime in 2018 – an assault based on the victim’s sexual orientation. A university spokesperson told…
After reports emerged that National Security Council member Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was set to testify to Congress about his discomfort with President Trump’s Ukraine policy and actions, conservative commentators began implying that Vindman, a Jewish former refugee from Ukraine, was disloyal to the United States. “Here we have a U.S. national security official, who…
BOSTON (JTA) — Smith College in Massachusetts was vandalized with a rash of swastikas. Local police have joined the investigation into the incident at the prestigious all-women school in Northhampton, about 100 miles west of Boston. Students reported finding at least one swastika on a wall in an academic building on Thursday. Police then searched…
(JTA) — The University of Illinois student government passed a resolution that distinguishes anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism. The resolution, which passed in a 29-4 vote, criticizes Chancellor Robert Jones for having said a presentation to dorm advisers on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was anti-Semitic. Many pro-Israel and Jewish students who were critical of the…
(JTA) — A Palestinian student at Benedictine University called on a Holocaust survivor to condemn the establishment of Israel, and then walked out on his speech after he did not do so. Following a speech last week by Professor Harold Kasimow, who survived the Holocaust as a child, Benedictine senior Ayah Ali asked a question…
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