A conservative lawyer claimed on Lou Dobbs’s Fox Business Channel show on Wednesday that George Soros “controls a very large part of the career foreign service of the United States State Department,” the latest example of a conspiracy theory targeting the Jewish billionaire to air on Dobbs’s show. Dobbs’s guests were Joe DiGenova and Victoria…
(JTA) — Pope Francis denounced the current rise of anti-Semitism and spoke against new persecutions against Jews. Speaking Tuesday at the Vatican, the Argentina-born pope improvised his comment outside his prepared remarks at his weekly papal audience. “I would like to make a separate note. The Jewish people have suffered so much in history, they…
The New York Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating a series of egging attacks in Brooklyn this weekend, the Brooklyn Paper reported. In two separate events on Saturday, suspects threw eggs through the open door of a synagogue and at a Jewish woman walking on the street, in both cases missing the people…
Lev Parnas, a key figure in the impeachment investigation, told a group of people at a April 2018 donor event that he had discussed Ukraine with President Trump, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Trump has claimed that he doesn’t know Parnas or his arrested associate Igor Fruman. But Parnas told fellow diners at the donor…
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton claimed in a speech that First Family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump could convince President Trump to nominate a liberal to the Supreme Court if they thought it would help their reputations in New York City, NBC News reported Tuesday. In a speech at private event connected to…
(JTA) — White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist materials to the right-wing website Breitbart News as the 2016 presidential election neared. Many of the 900 emails sent from March 2015 to June 2016 “showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald…
Jewish Americans were once again the religious group most targeted by religiously-motivated bias crimes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation disclosed Tuesday. In its annual Hate Crime Statistics Act report, the FBI found a slight decrease in the number of hate crimes overall, as well as a similarly small decline in crimes motivated by religious bias….
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders went into more detail than ever before about his ties to Judaism and Israel in an op-ed for Jewish Currents published Monday. Here are the key takeaways: He warned of the danger of white supremacy: Sanders described how his father’s relatives were killed in the Holocaust, and detailed the…
Two more instances of anti-Semitic crime shocked New York City this past weekend, the latest in a slate of incidents targeting Jews here. The 103rd street subway stop was vandalized with swastikas and the words “kill all Jews,” and a man used a gun to smash the windows at a girls’ yeshiva, Bais Rikvah School,…
The Colorado synagogue that was targeted by a white supremacist would-be bomber has said that the public is welcome to attend Friday evening services this Sabbath. Rabbi Birdie Becker, the leader of Temple Emanuel, in Pueblo, also noted that the synagogue will now install external security cameras in response to the bombing threat. The man…
Washington state law enforcement officials say the leader of a local neo-Nazi cell — the same group that was connected to the death of the Jewish teenager Blaze Bernstein — may have planned to manufacture untraceable weapons known as “ghost guns.” Kaleb Cole, who according to court documents is the admitted leader of the Washington…
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