A Florida man who threatened to attack a synagogue was arrested by the FBI on Friday, the Miami Herald reported. Hanson Larkin, 25, allegedly threatened to kill Jews several times via text messages. According to court documents, Larkin had been trying to convince an associate to meet him in Miami throughout the month of August…
Editor’s note, 9/18/19, 5:15 p.m.: The Forward has removed this article, published Sept. 11, after learning that it was based on an erroneous reading of public documents related to a loan agreement between American Hebrew Academy, a Jewish boarding school in North Carolina that announced its closure in June, and Puxin Limited, a Chinese educational…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “Fox and Friends,” the popular morning show on the conservative Fox News Channel, aired a theory that the Jewish billionaire George Soros is funding illegal migration to the United States. The theory, aired in the past by President Donald Trump and the perpetrators of deadly attacks and attempted attacks on Jewish targets…
(JTA) — A city councilman in Paterson, New Jersey, used the term “Jew us down” at a public meeting to criticize developers looking to buy land for less money. Colleagues of Michael Jackson condemned his use of the term, calling it “highly insensitive,” “reprehensible” and “totally inappropriate.” Councilman Al Abdelaziz, who is of Palestinian descent,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jon Ossoff, a Jewish investigative documentarian who lost a close 2017 race for the U.S. House of Representatives, is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. Georgia is seen as a possible pickup for Senate Democrats in 2020 as they seek control of the body. Republicans will be defending more seats….
A Tel Aviv strip club shut down after police raids repeatedly found prostitution and drugs will become the home for a spiritual community that will use the space as a synagogue, Israeli news outlets are reporting. The Pussycat Show Club took over a the widely known Colliseum building in Tel Aviv’s Atarim Square, near the…
An Ohio man who was convicted of an anti-Semitic hate crime has gone missing before he was supposed to report to prison. The FBI issued an arrest warrant for Izmir Koch and is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his detention, Fox 19 in Cincinnati reported Monday. Koch was convicted in December 2018…
(JTA) — David Hertz, a Jewish social entrepreneur from Brazil, was named the winner of the 2019 Charles Bronfman Prize on Wednesday in recognition of his efforts to alleviate global hunger. The award comes with $100,000 in prize money. Hertz is the cofounder of Gastromotiva, a Brazilian-based organization that fights unemployment and social inequality and…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, long reluctant to open up about his personal life, revealed more in an interview with Yahoo News about his upbringing in Brooklyn and his Jewish identity. Here’s what we learned: Immigration is personal to him. Yahoo reporter Hunter Walker showed Sanders the passenger manifest from the Lapland, the ship that Sanders’s father…
(JTA) — A West Hollywood, California father of seven suffering from ALS made a cross-country trip to be at his son’s bar mitzvah with family and friends in his hometown of Brooklyn. Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, 47, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2013. He can no longer move,…
(JTA) — John Bercow, the British House of Commons speaker who became widely known for his cries of “Order!” and other colorful rhetoric, announced Monday that he will resign his post by the end of October. Bercow is Jewish and said last year: “I’ve always been very open about my Jewishness and I have experienced…
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