Canadian Jewish comedian Steve Hofstetter took on an anti-Semitic heckler in a video posted on his YouTube channel earlier this year. In his act, Hofstetter mocked the white supremacists who chanted anti-Semitic slogans at a violent rally in Charlotesville, Virginia in 2017. A member of the audience responded with a claim that Jews control television….
(JTA) — The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in a state park in Virginia Beach, Virginia, saving a student who was having trouble returning to shore. The official search was called off mid-Wednesday, a full day after Reuven Bauman, 35, a teacher at Yeshiva…
(JTA) — Dov Hikind, the former Democratic New York Assemblyman, filed a lawsuit against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking him on Twitter because he holds opposing viewpoints. Hikind filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. on Tuesday, hours after a federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump was violating the Constitution by…
Michel David-Weill, a Holocaust survivor and a famous financier, had a small trove of irreplaceable family photographs and letters from before World War II go missing while on vacation in California, the Lost Coast Outpost first reported. David-Weill is the former chairman of Lazard Frères — his French Jewish family ran the private investment firm…
(JTA) — The chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is under fire for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of a Nazi collaborator. Saikat Chakrabarti is seen wearing the green shirt in a video that aired in December on NowThis News about Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise congressional victory the previous month. The shirt features a sketch…
A Chicago synagogue discovered a 3,000-pound safe under its parking lot — and locksmiths are failing at cracking it open, CBS Chicago reported. Plumbers were digging into the lot at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Lakeview in June when they hit the huge safe. Locksmiths and “safe-crackers” were recently called on to try to open it. It’s…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose presidential candidacy has rallied in recent weeks, told two Jewish anti-occupation activists “yes” when they asked her for support. Becca Lubow, a student and a member of the IfNotNow Jewish anti-occupation movement, and a companion approached the Massachusetts Democrat on Monday at an event in Peterborough, New Hampshire,…
An Orthodox Jew wore a yarmulke as he ran through an obstacle course on CBS’s new competition series on a quest to win $1 million. Michael Neuman recently competed on Million Dollar Mile, produced by Lebron James and hosted by Tim Tebow, and his episode will air July 13 at 8 p.m. The 25-year-old told…
Jared Kushner responded to the “Access Hollywood” tape on which his father-in-law, Donald Trump, claimed to have sexually assaulted women, “You know, I don’t think it’s all that bad,” according to an upcoming book. Politico released an excerpt from correspondent Tim Albert’s soon to be released book, “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the…
(JTA) — The U.S. Coast Guard will continue what it is calling a recovery mission for a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in a state park in Virginia Beach, Virginia to save a student who was having trouble returning to shore. The 11-year-old student, who was at False Cape State Park on Tuesday afternoon…
An Ohio man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday in connection with an assault that was categorized as a hate crime, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Izmir Koch, 34, stepped outside a Cincinnati restaurant in 2017 and started yelling in Russian if anyone around was Jewish. A man with whom he had mutual…
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