Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has pulled out of event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, Americans for Peace Now president and chief executive officer, Hadar Susskind, confirmed to the Forward Saturday. Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates reacted with outrage on social media to the New York congresswoman’s planned appearance at a the event marking the 25th anniversary of the slain…
Enter “Jewish baby carriages” into a Google Search and the first results to appear are images of ovens. Historical images of Jewish women pushing strollers and more recent images of Hasidic Jewish women are interspersed with disturbing photos of large black ovens. One of the results depicts a smoking oven accompanied by text that reads:…
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced she will take part in an Americans for Peace Now event honoring Yitzhak Rabin.The virtual event is scheduled to take place Oct. 20, and will celebrate the life and legacy of the former Prime Minister of Israel on the 25th anniversary of his death. The announcement comes as a surprise to…
The Oxford English Dictionary’s online word of the day is kibitz. However, the dictionary’s first definition is a bit jarring for Americans who are accustomed to the using the word as a colloquialism for warm, friendly chatter. Instead, the OED defines it as “To watch (a card game or card player) as a spectator, typically…
Armani/Kaf, a 40-seat kosher meat restaurant, will open this month in the Burj Khalifa under the supervision of Rabbi Levi Duchman, who lives in Dubai. The restaurant will be on the ground floor of the world’s tallest building where the Armani hotel has other dining options, and will also offer room service in the Armani…
(JTA) — Israelis are facing a much more restrictive general lockdown, including the closure of synagogues, to prevent the record spread of the coronavirus. The stricter measures approved early Thursday would go into effect hours before Yom Kippur, which starts on Sunday evening. The full Knesset was set to vote on the new restrictions later in…
(JTA) — A Jewish television commentator said there is “no difference” between the rhetoric of President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, and Jews who support Trump “are not looking back at our history.” Donnie Deutsch, a former advertising executive and liberal TV personality from New York City, made the comments Wednesday on “Morning Joe” on…
(JTA) — As a British resident born in Dubai to a Palestinian father and Lebanese mother, Heba Nabil Iskandarani had plenty of potential national identities. What she lacked, however, was a passport. A 26-year-old lecturer in architecture at Birmingham City University, Iskandarani has been stateless for most of her life, possessing only a Lebanese travel…
A Jewish passenger who couldn’t make a United Airlines flight to Israel because of Yom Kippur went right to the top for an accommodation — and it worked. The woman, identified as Miriam W. by DansDeals, wrote an email directly to the airline’s CEO and chairman, Scott Kirby and Oscar Munoz, to explain her situation:…
The Jewish Advocate, a 118-year-old Boston news weekly, announced today that it will cease publication. The paper was the oldest continually-circulated English-language weekly Jewish newspaper in the United States until the announcement of its suspension in its September 25, 2020 issue. The publication, which was founded in 1902 at the suggestion of the father of…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said Jews “stick together” and are “only in it for themselves” following conversations with Jewish lawmakers, The Washington Post quoted senior White House officials as saying. The quotes are in a lengthy article quoting anonymous current and former officials describing how Trump treated race in private conversations. The Post did…
