(JTA) — Police have arrested a Washington state man for making death threats against Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. weeks after he posted his intentions on social media, The Washington Post reported. Chase Bliss Colasurdo, 27, who lives in the Seattle area, indicated that he wanted to murder Kushner, a key White House adviser and…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, began his three-year prison sentence Monday. He arrived two hours early to FCI Otisville in upstate New York, the New York Post reported. Otisville has many Jewish-friendly amenities, including kosher vending machines and a full-time Orthodox chaplain. Before he left his home in Manhattan, Cohen took one…
(JTA) — American Jews are much more likely than their Christian counterparts to express criticism of President Trump’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new survey. In a survey published Monday, the Pew Research Center found that 42 percent of American Jews said that Trump was favoring the Israelis too much, while a similar share,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – In the wake of a deadly attack on a Chabad synagogue in California, the movement will press for a mandatory moment of silence in American schools, a measure that it claims will reduce violence. In a release Sunday, the Washington-based American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) said chapters in all 50 states would…
Last month, my colleague Ari Feldman received a strange email from an anonymous source. That normally wouldn’t be very notable – the Forward gets unsolicited emails all the time, ranging from news tips to complaints to apocalyptic prophecies – except for the unexpected closing line: “Honk honk, motherfucker!” Another gracious email from a lovely @jdforward…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An American citizen killed while running for cover from a Hamas rocket was laid to rest in Jerusalem on Sunday evening. Hundreds turned out to bury Pinchas Menachem Prezuazman, a 21-year old American-Israeli from Ashdod. A member of the Ger Hasidic sect, he leaves behind a wife and baby. The fourth Israeli to be…
(JTA) — A Jewish home in New Jersey that was recently vacated was vandalized inside and out with hate symbols and anti-Semitic phrases. The home on a wooded, 10-acre property in Jackson Township was vandalized on Wednesday, days before it was scheduled to be demolished. The windows of the house had all been broken and…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump volunteered a view on the deadly flareup in clashes between Israel and terrorist groups on the Gaza Strip border this weekend. Of the 21 Democrats running for president, only three weighed in — two, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., favoring Israel’s version of events, and one,…
Snoop Dogg is telling his Instagram followers to post videos of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan after Facebook banned Farrakhan from its platforms this week. Farrakhan was one of several rightist figures, including Alex Jones and Laura Loomer, banned from the social network’s services. “Put up some Minister Farrakhan footage. Show some love. Show…
Chabad of Poway, where one woman was killed and three injured in an anti-Semitic shooting last Saturday, had applied for and received a grant to update its security from the federal government, the AP reported. The synagogue only received the $150,000 federal grant in late March, and reportedly had not had enough time to implement…
A photographer is suing Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s World Values Network for using his photograph of Rep. Ilhan Omar without authorization, the Jerusalem Post reported. Jason Grow is suing for $150,000 after Boteach’s organization used the photograph in an advertisement in the Washington Post, and also on the GoFundMe page raising money to support the full-page…
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