(JTA) — Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called out Jared Kushner as “the Jewish member of Trump’s family” in attacking the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Khamenei made the comment on the White House senior adviser as part of a series of tweets on his English-language Twitter feed. “The nation…
(JTA) — A man believed to be homeless was arrested nearly 12 hours after New York Police Department’s chief chaplain, Rabbi Alvin Kass, was mugged during his daily early morning walk on the city’s Upper West Side. Rafael Diaz, 39, was taken into custody on Tuesday while in possession of a crack pipe, WABC-TV reported….
(JTA) — Demonstrations by Muslims in the Swedish city of Malmo against a far-right lawmaker turned violent and included chants in Arabic about killing Jews. Some protesters attending at least one of the rallies staged against a plan by Rasmus Paludan, the leader of Denmark’s far-right anti-immigration Hard Line party, to burn a copy of…
(JTA) — Alex Morse, a 31-year-old gay Jewish progressive, lost his bid to oust a powerful incumbent, Rep. Richard Neal, in a closely watched Democratic primary in Massachusetts. In the 1st Congressional District race on Tuesday, the conservative Neal held a lead of nearly 20 percentage points over the mayor of Holyoke as of Wednesday…
(JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled plans to film a campaign ad in Israel to encourage Americans living there to vote for President Donald Trump. The decision not to participate in the campaign by Republicans Overseas Israel followed the uproar over Pompeo’s prerecorded message from Jerusalem to last week’s Republican National Convention, and…
On Monday, porn star Ron Jeremy was charged with the sexual assault of 13 more women, including one who was a minor at the time of her alleged incident. In June, Jeremy, whose real last name is Hyatt, was charged with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth between between 2014 and 2019 The…
Posters printed with slogans like “Hitler was right” and swastikas were found at Arizona State University in Tempe on Sunday, according to a Facebook post by ASU Chabad rabbi Shmuel Tiechtel. “When we are faced with opposition and anti-Jewish sentiment, we cannot back down,” he wrote. “It is a time to add in Jewish pride…
NYPD Chief Chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass was mugged near his home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side early Tuesday morning, the New York Post reported. Kass, 84, was confronted by a man saying he was hungry, who went into Kass’ pockets. The assailant grabbed Kass’ wallet, but it dropped to the ground, and the assailant left…
(JTA) — A video of a discussion between health care activist Ady Barkan and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was doctored to make it appear that Biden had agreed to defund police departments. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the majority whip, tweeted out the video, which Twitter later flagged as manipulated before Scalise deleted it. .@SteveScalise,…
Morris Gulett, leader of a Louisiana chapter of the neo-Nazi group the Aryan Nations, has donated at least $2,000 to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign — and the campaign has not returned any of the money. Gulett made 29 separate donations from 2017 through May 2020, according to recent election filings reviewed by Popular Information. He…
(JTA) — When Andrew Sullivan looks at the number of Jews who have won the Nobel Prize, he thinks “there’s something there.” Ben Smith interviewed the influential conservative writer for a New York Times article that hones in on Sullivan’s views on race and IQ — specifically a 1994 edition of the New Republic that…
