(JTA) — A man who plotted to blow up a synagogue in Colorado has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and explosives charges. Richard Holzer, a self-described “skinhead” and former Ku Klux Klan member who used Facebook to promote white supremacy, was arrested last November for plotting to blow up a 100-year-old synagogue in Pueblo,…
(JTA) — A new poll shows overwhelming support for President Donald Trump among Orthodox Jews. The poll, published Wednesday by Ami Magazine, a major Orthodox monthly, found that 83% of Orthodox respondents plan to vote for Trump in the upcoming election, while just 13% plan to vote for Joe Biden. Those numbers represent a dramatic…
A note found in a child’s shoe at the Auschwitz museum this summer has led researchers to a suitcase that likely belonged to the child’s father. In July, employees of the Auschwitz museum discovered the name of Amos Steinberg written in a shoe. Amos Steinberg was born in Prague in 1938 and killed with his…
(JTA) — The latest prominent American to advance conspiracy theories about Jewish philanthropist George Soros: Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas shared a meme on Facebook Wednesday claiming that Soros’ family is “evil” and “really running” the Democratic party. The meme, first posted by a…
More than a dozen signs promoting Joshua Eisen, a Jewish congressional candidate from New York’s Rockland County, were vandalized on Tuesday night, in addition to signs for his opponent, according to a report by News 12 Westchester. The vandalized signs, spray-painted with phrases like “Nazi lover” were found in the towns of Monsey, Suffern and…
(JTA) — Germany has pledged to include Israel in Europe’s deal for a future vaccine against the COVID-19 virus, in keeping with Germany’s “special relationship” with Israel as a response to the Holocaust. According to Israeli media, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Health Minister Jens Spahn made the commitment to Israel’s Foreign Minister Gabi…
Anchorage’s Jewish Mayor Ethan Avram Berkowitz announced his resignation Tuesday evening a day after a tumultuous weekend that started with anti-Semitic death threat and ended with admitting to a “consensual, inappropriate text message relationship” with a local TV reporter. That relationship turned hostile on Friday when the reporter, Maureen “Maria” Athens, posted a video to…
San Diego police are investigating an alleged antisemitic assault on a local rabbi who reported that a teenage boy harassed and struck him on the way to synagogue. Rabbi Yonatan Halevy, 31, said he was accompanying his elderly father to services on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10, when a teen rode by them on his bike,…
(JTA) — The video-sharing social network Tik Tok removed the channel of Lehava, a far-right Israeli group that opposes Jewish-Arab coexistence and gay relationships. The group is led by Benzi Gopstein, who was banned from running in Israeli elections last year as head of the right-wing Jewish Power party due to anti-Arab statements considered incitement…
The Egyptian government has confirmed a ban on Jewish pilgrimages to the grave of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira, who is buried in Beheira Governorate, just east of Alexandria, according to the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Ahram. Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira is the grandfather of Rabbi Israel Abuhatzeira, better known as the Baba Sali, who was a leader of the…
Shlomo Sulayman, not just Israel’s oldest man, but also one of the oldest people in the world, passed away in Netanya yesterday at the age of 117. Born in Yemen, Sulayman witnessed the deterioration of that country’s once-vibrant Jewish community. With his passing, the circle of those who had firsthand experience of Jewish life in…
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