(JTA) — A Tallahassee, Florida jury found a man guilty in the murder of Dan Markel, a Jewish law professor shot outside his home in 2014. The jury on Friday found Sigfredo Garcia, 37, guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, the New York Times reported. Sentencing begins on Monday. Garcia faces the death…
Two Soviet-born, Florida-based men were indicted Thursday for suspicion of campaign finance violations, allegedly performed to benefit President Trump and his Republican allies and tied to a larger dirt-gathering campaign on his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and Biden’s son Hunter. The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, are known as Giuliani’s “Florida Fixers” by the…
(JTA) — The Jewish boy who was forced to kneel and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate has been sent threatening text messages. The messages were sent Friday after photos of the incident were splashed across the front pages of newspapers in Australia and around the world, the Daily Mail reported. The photo was…
A Florida high school principal who was removed from his school in July after refusing to take a position on whether the Holocaust happened is still being paid his six-figure salary by his heavily Jewish school district despite not having any work responsibilities, the Palm Beach Post reported Wednesday. After a parent emailed him in…
On Yom Kippur, 51 congregants in a Halle synagogue watched the feed from security cameras as their would-be shooter tried to break down the door. He pushed it, fired a few rounds with his gun and even attached an explosive to the jamb. The heavy wooden door wouldn’t budge, CNN reported.. The door and the…
White nationalists have praised the alleged gunman behind the attempted synagogue shooting in Germany as a “saint,” Vice reported. The praise for the shooter – who killed two people after being thwarted from entering a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle on Yom Kippur – was prevalent on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service once…
(JTA) — Material and graffiti described as hateful and anti-Semitic were discovered at a Holocaust memorial in White Plains, New York on the eve of Yom Kippur. Stickers and posters were found on Tuesday at the Holocaust Garden of Remembrance. Writing described as anti-Semitic was found on a sign outside the garden and inside the…
Updated 1:45 p.m. (JTA) — A backpack was set alight and left on the steps of a Jewish center in Brooklyn on Yom Kippur. The burning backpack on the steps of the Park Slope Jewish Center was reported at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, the New York Post reported. The New York City Fire Department extinguished…
(JTA) — A Jewish leader in Germany doubled down on his accusation that police did not adequately protect a local synagogue at the center of an attack in the east of the country. “If police had been stationed outside the synagogue, then this man could have been disarmed before he could attack the others,” Josef…
BERLIN/HALLE, Germany (Reuters) – A gunman who denounced Jews opened fire outside a German synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, and killed two people as he livestreamed his attack. Several German media outlets said the perpetrator acted alone on Wednesday in the eastern German city of Halle. He fatally shot…
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is emerging as one of Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) harshest critics as the latter pursues an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. it’s not a storybook kind. Though fairy tales have been invoked. On Tuesday at the Capitol, Zeldin accused Schiff, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of forwarding a “Fairy…
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