Racist and anti-Semitic trolls took advantage of a social media promotion by Adidas to get the shoe retailer to tweet hateful messages like “Gas All Jews” and “Die All N——-s.” As part of its promotion of the new jerseys for the British soccer club Arsenal, Adidas encouraged people to use the hashtag #DareToCreate, and it…
Several multi-national booksellers, including Amazon, Wal-Mart and Barnes and Nobles, were selling a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” with a product description apparently marketed directly to neo-Nazis, HuffPost reported. The version of this book — in a translation the product description erroneously calls the “official” translation of the Nazi regime — is on…
Child welfare officials have substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of children at a prominent Washington, D.C., synagogue, according to a report from CNN. CNN obtained a cease-and-desist letter from the superintendent of schools for D.C. through a Freedom of Information Act request. The letter says that officials from the Child and Family Services Agency for…
Hundreds of historians have signed an open letter asking the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to reverse its opposition to analogies between the Shoah and modern events. The letter, which was published in the New York Review of Books and delivered to the museum on Monday, was prompted after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared migrant detention…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he informed President Trump in advance of what Israel has described as a spy mission in Tehran last year to capture a secret Iranian nuclear archive. Netanyahu said in April 2018 that Mossad operatives had spirited thousands of hidden documents out of Tehran…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The daughter of two prominent Reform rabbis was killed while biking when she was hit by a cement truck in Brooklyn. Devra Freelander, 28, was struck on Monday at an intersection in the East Williamsburg neighborhood. The driver has not been charged so far, according to the New York Daily News. Police…
Police in northern Virginia are investigating swastika graffiti at a local pool, the third case of racist or anti-Semitic activity in the area in the past few weeks, local news station WDVM reported Sunday. Swastikas were found spray-painted on a pool deck at the Piedmont Home Owners Association Pool House in Gainesville on the morning…
Norwegian Cruise Line unveiled a new kosher menu that will be available to customers at no extra charge, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The offerings include sealed kosher meal packages with meat, chicken and fish. Meals will comprise an appetizer, main course, two side dishes and a dessert. Groups with more than 60 people can…
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee said Monday that he was expanding his investigation of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and other White House employees who reportedly used personal emails, cell phones and apps for work communication, in violation of federal record-keeping laws. Chairman Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, wrote in a letter to…
(JTA) — A woman who was arrested for making racially insulting phone calls to a Hebrew Free Loan organization in Detroit was charged with ethnic intimidation. The woman arrested in last month was identified by the Detroit Free Press as April Marie Bennett, 29, of Hastings, a small town of 7,300 in western Michigan. In…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Republican running for the Virginia state legislature removed from his Facebook campaign page a meme that mocked comparisons of migrant camps to concentration camps. Paul Milde, running to be a delegate in Virginia’s 28th district, encompassing the town of Fredericksburg about halfway between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday posted…
מאַטי מענדלאָוויטשעס ברודער, וואָס האָט יאָרן לאַנג געליטן פֿון דעפּרעסיע, האָט הײַיאָר זיך גענומען דאָס לעבן. .
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