Tiny bagels may have been on the menu in the Bronze Age. Pieces of 3,000-year-old charred bread were recently discovered in an archaeological site in Austria, and they resembled the remains of a small broken bagel, The New York Times reported. At the site, which sits near the Slovakian border and thrived around 1500 to…
(JTA) — A Poland-born Holocaust survivor from New Jersey invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz following her remarks about concentration camps. Edward Mosberg, 93, on Friday extended the invitation to the Democrat lawmaker who on Monday touched off a heated debate in the media about her use of the term, which is widely associated…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced the establishment of a foundation dedicated to combating anti-Semitism as he accepted the Genesis Prize award in Jerusalem on Thursday. In addition to the $1 million he received along with the prize, Kraft is putting $20 million of his own money towards the project, to…
BERLIN (JTA) — A 23-year-old American said he was hit in the face in Berlin after telling a group harassing him that he was Jewish. The man, described as a tourist, suffered a black eye in the incident, which he reported via a police website, according to news reports. Police are investigating the Tuesday night attack…
Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson compared President Trump’s promised immigration raids to Nazi Germany during a campaign appearance in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Vice News reported. Williamson, an author and motivational speaker, made her comments the same day that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attracted criticism for comparing migrant detention facilities on the Mexican border to concentration…
(JTA) — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, had a response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referring to migrant detention centers as “concentration camps.” “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the freshman New York Democrat had said Monday night in an Instagram Live video. “If that doesn’t…
SYDNEY (JTA) — New Zealand’s Minister for Immigration has written to the Israeli ambassador in Wellington apologizing personally for a map on a government website that showed a “Palestine,” but not Israel. “I can assure you that the fact sheet did not reflect New Zealand Government policy,” Minister Iain Lees-Galloway said in the letter to Amb. Dr….
(JTA) — The U.S. Department of Education will investigate a Middle East conference on Gaza co-sponsored by two North Carolina universities over allegations that it had an anti-Israel bias. Rep. George Holding, R-N.C., called on the department to check into the late March conference co-sponsored by Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill…
(JTA) — The California man who threatened in an online chatroom to kill Jews and commit a mass shooting at a synagogue was released on bail. Ross Anthony Farca, 23, of Concord, who was arrested on June 10, was freed on a $125,000 bond over the weekend, the Concord Police Department said in a statement…
(JTA) — An audience filled with students at Cambridge University laughed as Malaysia’s prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, unleashed a stream of anti-Semitic statements. Mohamad spoke Sunday evening at the Cambridge Union, known as the world’s oldest debating society, at a question-and-answer session with Adam Davies, the speakers officer of the union. “I have some Jewish…
An attorney with a history of ties to white nationalists has had several op-eds published in major media outlets like the Wall Street Journal over the past two years, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday. Marcus Epstein, who once founded an anti-immigration political club with white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, has had more than a dozen pieces…
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