(JTA) — A speaker at a New York University doctorate convocation ceremony praised campus organizations that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and called Israel an apartheid state. Steven William Thrasher received his doctorate in American studies from the university’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. “I am so proud, so proud…
A Connecticut rabbi found liable in a federal civil court case connected to the sexual assault of a yeshiva student has paid virtually none of the $21.7 million in damages awarded to the victim, according to a new lawsuit filed by the victim, the New Haven Register reported. In May 2017, a jury in Hartford…
(JTA) — The Chabad of Poway synagogue dedicated a new Torah scroll in honor of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in a shooting attack last month at the San Diego-area synagogue. The ceremony took place Wednesday night marking the end of the sloshim, or first 30-day mourning period, and the night of Lag b’Omer, when…
Happy birthday Bob Dylan! The legendary musician turns 78 this year. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, Dylan once lived on a kibbutz. He’s toured with the Rolling Stones, performing in Tel Aviv. He’s played his own shows in Israel, three times over the last thirty years. But… did you know he also wrote an anthem about…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Jewish leaders are warning about anti-Semitic speech here amid a debate over the fate of property seized from or abandoned by Jews during the Holocaust. The Association of Jewish Religious Communities has appealed to Polish politicians to “abandon hate speech towards Jews.” Politicians on the extreme right raised the topic of…
Reports of four different cases of swastika vandalism were published in four different cities on Wednesday, the latest examples of anti-Semitic incidents that have affected the Jewish community this month, ranging from defacement of property to attempted arson. In New York City, police are investigating who drew a swastika on the front door of the…
A guest lecturer appearing in an anthropology course at the University of California, Los Angeles called Zionists white supremacists and brought a Jewish student to tears, the Jewish Journal reported Tuesday. Rabab Abdulhadi, a professor of Arab and Muslim ethnicities and diasporas at San Francisco State University, spoke to around 100 students during a mandatory…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization made it official: They will not be attending the Trump administration’s economic summit next month in Bahrain. The Palestinians said they were not consulted on the plan to hold the conference in Manama as part of the overall peace proposal of the Trump administration. In…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were quick to slam President Trump’s “temper tantrum” at their meeting on Wednesday, the Daily Beast reported. The president met with the Democratic duo to talk about infrastructure, but the meeting only reportedly lasted 20 minutes before Trump stormed out to do a press conference….
A high school in a Chicago suburb is spending $53,794 to reprint this year’s run of yearbooks after administrators at the school grew concerned that a hand gesture made in one of the photos is identical to a popular white nationalist symbol, Insider reported. The sign in question is the is-it-or-is-it-not-a-hoax symbol of the classic…
(JTA) — The smashing of two car windows outside a Chicago synagogue was not a hate crime, according to local police. A suspect has been arrested in the vandalism this week in West Rogers Park, a neighborhood with a large Jewish population. It was among 14 similar incidents in the neighborhood that took place over…
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