(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won his party’s leadership primary with 71.5 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll. A tweet by Direct Polls, an Israeli firm, showed challenger Gideon Saar with 28.5 percent.The poll had a margin of error of 3.2 percent, and turnout for the primary stood at…
(JTA) — A Jewish man wearing a yarmulke was physically and verbally assaulted in Manhattan in one of three assaults against Jews in New York in just over a 24-hour period. A Miami man was arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime for an attack late Monday morning about two blocks from Grand…
(JTA) — A federal lawsuit alleges that a Milwaukee weatherman and two other former employees of a local television station suffered discrimination because they are Jewish. The lawsuit against Scripps Media Inc., the parent company of WTMJ-TV, was filed in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Monday. The incidents alleged…
(JTA) — Jewelers in New York City have created the world’s most valuable dreidel, according to Guinness World Records. The custom-designed piece created by Estate Diamond Jewelry is valued at $70,000. It includes the diamond-encrusted Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hay and shin, and a 4.2-carat diamond on its tip. The 18K gold dreidel stands 10.8…
(JTA) — Rosalee Glass, a Holocaust survivor recognized by President Donald Trump during the White House Hanukkah party, has died following injuries sustained during travel to Washington, D.C. Glass died in Los Angeles on Dec. 14 of a blood clot to her heart. She was three weeks shy of her 103rd birthday. She was accidentally dropped…
A man accused of lighting fires in a Yeshiva University dormitory while students were asleep may be the grandson of Edward Teller, the famous nuclear physicist who played a central role in inventing the hydrogen bomb. Peter Weyand was arrested over the weekend after he was allegedly caught on camera using matches from a Hanukkah…
JTA — A federal complaint has been filed against Columbia University accusing the school of anti-Semitic discrimination. It is the first case filed since President Donald Trump’s executive order on combating anti-Semitism, which grants Jewish students the same protections as other minority groups. The order came under intense scrutiny as it classified Jewish students as…
Rudy Giuliani’s latest target is the Jewish billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros, whom he attacked in a recent interview as “hardly a Jew.” Speaking to New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi, Giuliani spoke about a variety of subjects, including his business dealings in Ukraine and the numerous people who knew him as a mayor…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, (D-Mich.) has been long known for her outspoken criticism of Israel and its occupation of the West Bank territories and the Golan Heights. But did she use a Hanukkah message to Jews to attack Israel for the occupation? No. On Sunday, a pro-Israel media group called Israel Advocacy Movement shared a video…
JTA — White House senior adviser Stephen Miller hit back at accusations that he is a white supremacist. An investigation by the Southern Poverty Law Center based on hundreds of leaked emails from Miller showed that he pushed the conservative news website Breitbart to spread ideas from white nationalist websites. Left-wing Jewish groups have since…
JTA — The Illinois Republican Party is ramping up efforts to make voters aware that a man who identifies as a neo-Nazi is running for a Chicago-area congressional seat. Arthur Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, ran for the same seat in 2018. He was the Republican nominee after running unopposed in…
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