An Austrian hotel sued a German traveler who complained online about finding a portrait of a Nazi in the lobby, The Guardian reported. A man and his wife checked into a four-star hotel in the Tyrolean Alps in August and immediately noticed two unsettling framed photos: one of a young man wearing a uniform with…
Updated 4:30 p.m. A synagogue in northern Minnesota went up in flames on Monday. Adas Israel Congregation, an Orthodox synagogue in Duluth, Minnesota, was ablaze as of 2:22 Monday morning, the Duluth Fire Department said in a statement. Much of the building has been destroyed and the fire department is working to stabilize the structure…
(JTA) — Israeli students spending a semester in Warsaw were attacked as they left a nightclub in the city. Two of the students required hospitalization after the early Saturday morning attack. The details of the attack were posted on Facebook by Barak Kashpizky, the twin brother of one of the injured Israelis. Yotam Kashpizky, who…
A synagogue in Washington state is housing a Guatemalan woman and her son whom immigration authorities are trying to deport, the Olympian reported Saturday. Maria Pablo Matias fled her country to flee domestic violence, but her asylum claim was denied, the newspaper reported. Rather than returning to Guatemala, she sought assistance from immigrants-rights organizations, who…
(JTA) — Dozens of local residents joined by local clergy gathered at the historic Fort Revere Park in Hull, Massachusetts, to protest anti-Semitic and racist graffiti. The gathering on Thursday came several days after the discovery of the vandalism painted on the walls of the fort, including swastikas, messages advocating violence against Jews, the slogan…
(JTA) — A longtime British Labour Party lawmaker who serves as the country’s anti-Semitism czar announced his resignation from Parliament in protest of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to act enough against rampant anti-Semitism in the party. John Mann’s announcement on Saturday comes just weeks before likely snap Parliamentary elections. He has served as a…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The sentence came at the end of a list of White House talking points regarding the surprising departure of Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former top Middle East peace negotiator: “Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook will take on an increased role on the team.” For Middle East tea-leaf readers, Hook was the…
The leader of the Republican Party chapter in Rockland County, New York vowed to re-air a campaign ad that it deleted from its Facebook page after being criticized for anti-Semitism, the New York Post reported Thursday. The video, titled “A Storm is Coming,” claimed that local legislator Aron Wieder, who is an Orthodox Jew, and…
Hundreds of protesters organized by the Jewish group Never Again Action marched on Amazon’s headquarters outside of Boston Thursday, leading to the arrest of 12 activists who refused to leave the building. The marchers sang protest songs while walking in the streets from the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston to Amazon’s building in Cambridge,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO, is dropping his bid for an independent run for the presidency. Schultz said he feared his candidacy could keep a moderate Democrat from ousting President Donald Trump. The billionaire philanthropist announced his decision in a letter Friday to supporters, Axios reported. Schultz, a longtime Democrat, launched…
(JTA) — A number of Jewish groups and lawyers are urging the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay the scheduled execution of a Jewish inmate who said his judge was anti-Semitic. In July, Dallas County Judge Lela Mays approved an Oct. 10 execution date for Randy Halprin, who was part of the “Texas 7” group…
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