(JTA) — An Indiana man sympathetic to Nazism and white supremacy was sentenced to three years in prison for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the property of a suburban Indianapolis synagogue. Nolan Brewer, 21, of Eminence, was sentenced Monday for conspiring to violate the civil rights of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla. He pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime, the…
The father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin nearly started crying when asked a question about his son, The New York Times reported Sunday. Robert Mnuchin, an art dealer, was in the news because he had arranged a $91.1 million auction purchase of a 3-foot-tall stainless steel rabbit sculpture by artist Jeff Koons – making it…
One half of the Christian couple who dressed and acted like Orthodox Jews and tried to convert their neighbors wrote a Facebook post this week defending their actions and lambasting the “fake stories” that have brought “shame to Judaism.” Rivkah Joy Weber, who went by the name Rivkah Costello while living in the heavily-Jewish Chicago…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The mother of 4-year-old terror victim Adele Biton gave birth to a baby girl on the birthday of her late daughter. Adele was severely injured in a Palestinian rock attack in the West Bank in 2013 and died two years later after never regaining consciousness. “It’s not a matter of filling a…
(JTA) — Volunteers in Belarus reburied the remains of more than 1,000 Holocaust victims whose bodies recently were discovered during construction work in the city of Brest. The burial Tuesday was conducted by volunteers from the ZAKA Jewish search and rescue organization and overseen by a local Chabad rabbi, the news website Jewish.ru reported. The…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A man from New Jersey who allegedly wanted to shoot pro-Israel rallygoers and bomb Trump Tower was arrested for trying to provide support to Hamas. Jonathan Xie, 20, of Basking Ridge, was arrested Wednesday, according to WABC-TV. He allegedly made various threats on Instagram, including that he wanted to “shoot everybody” at a…
Jonathan Pollard, the American man who served 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, said in an interview that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be doing more to help him, the Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Pollard, who took up Israeli citizenship while imprisoned, was paroled in 2015 but was banned from leaving…
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee won’t discipline the student who held up a sign with a swastika that called for gassing Jews, noting it was “freedom of speech,” the Jewish Chronicle reported. Kristian Gresham held the sign on May 6, at a campus Israel Independence Day event. The front featured a swastika, and the back said…
Israeli scientists were able to brew beer from ancient strains of yeast excavated from archaeological sites, with one flavor coming from a 5,000-year-old sample, the Times of Israel reported. A group of scientists led by biologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well a local brewmaster, were able to sequence the DNA of six…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A survey of American Jews showed continued disapproval of President Donald Trump, with anti-Semitism high and Israel low on the priority list for Jewish voters. The survey, conducted for a liberal-leaning Jewish organization, the Jewish Electorate Institute, by Greenberg Research, which does polling for Democratic candidates, showed 71 percent of Jewish American…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli NGO IsraAID is distributing relief materials in Colombia to thousands of Venezuelans escaping harsh conditions in their country. An IsraAID emergency response team is on the ground in Cucuta, on the Colombian border with Venezuela, where thousands of Venezuelans are crossing daily seeking relief from the economic and political crisis…
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