The Union for Reform Judaism has announced that Yolanda Savage-Narva will fill the newly created role of director for racial equity, diversity and inclusion. The announcement comes after a summer of protests over the police killings of people of color in the United States. The URJ made a statement supporting the protests and also advised…
Miriam Adelson. Mort Klein. Ice Cube? The first funds the Zionist Organization of America. The second leads it. And the third is a rapper known for longstanding antisemitism who this past summer formed a relationship with Klein, who reached out to him to discuss problematic tweets. All three are speaking at the ZOA’s annual gala…
Christiane Amanpour, the long-time foreign correspondent and host of Amanpour on CNN International, compared the Trump administration’s policies to Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that announced Hitler’s policy of violence against Jews, on her show earlier this week. “This week 82 years ago Kristallnacht happened, it was the Nazi’s warning shot across the bow of our…
(JTA) — Mike Pompeo is planning to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement, the first time a secretary of state will have made such a visit. For the visit during the Trump administration’s lame-duck period, he has chosen a settlement that is home to a winery that created a special label in his honor. The…
(JTA) — The names of the books are nearly identical — but the contents differ greatly. “American Crisis: Lessons in Leadership From The COVID-19 Pandemic” contains 320 pages of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s reflections on leading New York through the worst of the coronavirus in the spring. “Lessons in ‘Leadership,’” by former New York…
The Million Maga March. The March for Trump. Stop the Steal DC. Supporters of President Donald Trump of various stripes, including Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are planning to hold a march on Saturday in Washington, D.C., reported Politico. The plan evokes white nationalism’s most recent marquee moment, when they successfully gathered in Charlottesville, Va….
The British royal described former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks as “a trusted guide, an inspired teacher and a friend” in a eulogy he wrote for the United Kingdom’s Jewish News. “Over many years, I had come to value Rabbi Sacks’s counsel immensely,” wrote Prince Charles. “With his seemingly inexhaustible store of learning, his never-failing wisdom…
Six Americans, one French and one Czech citizen died in a helicopter crash while flying over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Thursday in the area of Sharm el-Sheikh. The group were part of the Multinational Force and Observers, which says that they have no reason to believe the crash was anything other than an accident, the Times…
(JTA) — One of the leaders of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate, is trying to rebrand the organization as explicitly white supremacist and anti-Semitic. Kyle Chapman, the founder of a “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys known for…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in and around the White House. The couple’s children had attended the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital…
(JTA) — Al Gross, the bear-killing Jewish doctor whose Senate bid drew a groundswell of support from across the United States, will not represent Alaska in Congress. Multiple news organizations called the race for the incumbent Republican, Dan Sullivan, on Wednesday morning. That was more than a week after polls closed and a day after…
