A little-known Brooklyn synagogue was the recipient last month of what may be the one of the largest personal donations to a religious organization in American history. But instead of celebrations over such a large contribution amid the bleak financial landscape of Jewish communal life, questions are being raised over the nature of the payment….
(JTA) — Seeking an air conditioned place to escape the summer heat, Artur Raisky and a friend decided last Saturday to walk to a McDonald’s in downtown Minsk, the capital of their native Belarus. But Raisky, 25, and his 22-year-old friend, Albert Kengerli, never reached the restaurant. They were arrested at random on the street…
(JTA) — “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane is adapting Herman Work’s epic World War II novels “The Winds of War” and its sequel, “War and Remembrance,” into a limited TV series for NBCUniversal. Wouk, who died last year at 103, wrote numerous popular works of fiction — “Majorie Morningstar” (about a young Jewish woman who…
(JTA) – The fact that New York state Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright isn’t Jewish didn’t stop a vandal from leaving behind an anti-Semitic note after defacing her office. Seawright, a Democrat whose district includes part of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, called for a police investigation into the incident at a news conference Tuesday. The intruder, whose…
A Republican House candidate in Georgia who accused George Soros of being a Nazi won her primary runoff Tuesday night, making her likely to represent her deep-red district next year. The candidate is Marjorie Taylor Greene, who touts QAnon, a network of websites and chatrooms populated by believers in conspiracy theories such as the notion…
(JTA) — A website dedicated to selling face masks featuring images of the Holocaust has stopped selling the masks and said it would shut down on Aug. 11. HolocaustFaceMasks.com, which had sold fewer than 10 masks as of July 29, had marketed masks emblazoned with famous pictures of the Holocaust. One showed a child with…
California senator Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, the campaign of presidential candidate Joe Biden announced Tuesday. Harris, who has represented the Golden State since 2017 and served before that as the state’s attorney general and as the district attorney of San Francisco, is the first Black…
(JTA) — One was a former SS officer who helped murder 220 Lithuanian Jews. Another was a doctor who sent at least seven children to their deaths on Nazi orders. After World War II, both Werner Scheu and Albert Viethen were among a group of former Nazi officials who ran children’s homes in West Germany…
(JTA) — Dozens of Jewish headstones were discovered under the asphalt of a local market in Poland. The headstones had been placed in the heart of Leżajsk, a town located about 120 miles south of Warsaw, at least 80 years ago, according to a report Friday in the Gazeta Wyborca daily. The headstones, which were…
(JTA) — An argument at a British pub over social distancing sparked an altercation in which one patron told a Jewish student that “we should have f ***|ing gassed the lot of you.” Danielle Greyman, a 21-year-old sociology student, filmed the incident Thursday at the Hedley Verity pub in Leeds, in northern England. The patron…
(JTA) – Before the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City, Rabbi Avi Greenstein knew he needed to make a big push to have people in his neighborhood fill out the census. In Borough Park, where Greenstein serves as executive director of the Boro Park Jewish Community Council, only 49.2% of residents filled out the census…
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