(JTA) — Chants comparing Michigan’s governor to Hitler were among those heard at a protest of the state’s stay-at-home order by thousands of demonstrators. The protesters, who had planned a major traffic jam around the capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, left their cars and ignored social-distancing rules. The governor, Gretchen Whitmer, said later in interviews…
(JTA) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis became emotional during a news briefing about the coronavirus crisis in his state when a reporter said that the public has compared his stay-at-home order to Nazism. “As a Jewish American who lost family in the Holocaust, I’m offended by any comparison to Nazism,” Polis said Wednesday during his…
A new song has us wondering — does Kelly Clarkson have what it takes to be a hit maker in Hebrew? On April 16, the inaugural winner of “American Idol” dropped the track “I Dare You” alongside international cuts of the song where she duets with singers from other countries. In the Israeli iteration, בוא…
A Massachusetts man was charged with two counts of attempted arson on Wednesday after being accused of trying to blow up a Jewish nursing home, NBC News reported. Police in Longmeadow, a town 90 minutes outside Boston, found last month what they described as a “homemade incendiary device” made out of a plastic gas container…
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump traveled to New Jersey with her family to spend Passover at a Trump family residence, despite federal guidelines against discretionary travel. Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three young children traveled from Washington D.C. to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, where they celebrated the first night…
The Anti-Semitism Accountability Project and the America China Public Affairs Institute have created a portal to report coronavirus-related hate speech and bias crimes against minority groups. Victims of bias-crimes can report them through an online form on ASAP’s website. The results will be used to “identify trends and raise awareness of this growing crisis among…
An African-American radio host’s public blaming of Jews for Baltimore’s coronavirus outbreak led to an accusation of anti-Semitism, particularly since data shows that the city’s COVID-19 hotspots include neighborhoods popular with both Jews and black residents. “There are a lot of Jewish people moving down here from New York City,” the host, George Mitchell, said…
The attorney representing the man who stabbed multiple people in Monsey, N.Y. at a December 28 Hanukkah celebration wants to exhume and examine the body of Josef Neumann, who died while in a coma that resulted from being stabbed in the attack. Michael Sussman is representing Grafton Thomas, who has been charged with murder after…
BOSTON (JTA) – Thirty-two residents at two Jewish senior living facilities that are part of the same nonprofit network have died from COVID-19, and scores of other residents and staff have tested positive for the virus. Eleven residents of Chelsea Jewish Life Care, across its three Boston-area locations, and 21 residents at JGS Lifecare in…
Democrat Jill Karofsky, a circuit court judge in Wisconsin’s Dane County, was declared the winner of a Supreme Court election in the Badger State on Monday, defeating an incumbent Republican in what was seen by both parties as a bellwether for the November presidential election. Karofsky, who is Jewish, won 55% of the vote against…
(JTA) — A Maryland man accused of painting a swastika on a local synagogue had firebombed a nearby church as part of his plan to target multiple houses of worship to worship Satan, police said. Andrew Costas, 28, of Rockville was arrested this week in connection with the anti-Semitic vandalism on March 28 at the…
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