JERUSALEM (JTA) — An American tourist was trapped in the luggage hold of an Israeli bus traveling from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The 19-year-old from New Jersey called police from under the moving bus on Saturday night from his cell phone. Police, who tracked the bus using GPS, stopped the bus about 20 minutes later,…
(JTA) — About a dozen graves were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in southwest France. The vandalism took place over the weekend in the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques area. The damage was discovered on Sunday by Déborah Loupien-Suares, the president of the Jewish community of Bayonne and Biarritz, who was visiting the…
(JTA) — Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who has been accused of helping late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is reportedly hiding out in Israel. A source told the New York Post that Maxwell, the daughter of the late Jewish media mogul Robert Maxwell, is being “protected” in a number of countries, including Israel. “She is…
(JTA) — Special phones that connect instantly to emergency services are being offered to New York City synagogues in the wake of a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the city. The phones, dubbed “shul phones,” are being offered by the Shomrim, a volunteer Jewish neighborhood patrol, the New York Post reported. The phone will allow…
(JTA) — A controversial column by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, in which he cited a paper by a researcher who promoted eugenics, was edited and fact-checked, his editor said. The Times editorial page editor James Bennet, who hired Stephens after assuming his position in 2016, told Politico that all columns appearing in the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teen was convicted in a West Bank military court of murdering American-Israeli activist Ari Fuld. Khalil Jabarin, 17, from the village of Yatta, near Hebron, also was convicted on Monday in Judea Military Court for three other murder attempts. Jabarin stabbed Fuld, 45, a father of four, in the back…
(JTA) — German police prevented an activist group from removing an art installation believed to contain the ashes of victims of the Nazis. About 20 members of a group called the Performance Art Committee attempted to remove the gray cylindrical column erected in early December, the Associated Press reported Sunday. The column, said to contain…
(JTA) — Former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire called for an end to anti-Semitism among African-Americans. In an Instagram post on Saturday, Stoudemire said he wanted to “address the situation that happened in Monsey, with the brother that had the attacks on the Jewish people. Anti-Semitic attacks.” View this post on Instagram Addressing the situation on…
(JTA) — A grand jury in Rockland County, New York, has indicted the alleged Monsey stabber on six attempted murder charges. The charges against Grafton Thomas announced on Friday included six counts of attempted murder in the second degree, three counts of assault in the first degree, three counts of attempted assault in the first…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be among many elected officials attending a massive rally against anti-Semitism in New York on Sunday. A staffer for Ocasio-Cortez confirmed to the Forward that she planned to attend the “No Hate. No Fear.” march, which was organized by local Jewish organizations after a spate of violent anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn…
Updated January 21 Public officials and Jewish community members in New Jersey were hearkened after learning that a Facebook page accused of fomenting anti-Semitism among residents of a town with a large Orthodox Jewish population had been suspended by the social media network. But it turned out that page administrators had temporarily taken it down…
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