(JTA) — Jewish groups applauded the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the Senate to sanction Burmese officials responsible for the persecution of the Rohingya people. The legislation calls for the United States to take a number of measures in response to the violence against the Rohingya perpetrated by the Burmese government. Sens. Ben Cardin,…
Jeffrey Rosen, President Trump’s nominee for deputy attorney general, refused to answer when asked by the Senate whether he approved of the outcome of Brown v. Board of Education, the Daily Beast reported. Rosen was facing the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing on Wednesday when Senator Richard Blumenthal grilled him on Brown v….
At least four signs promoting a white supremacist group were posted across the campus of Miami University in Ohio in the last week, The Miami Student reported Wednesday. The signs endorsed the white supremacist group Patriot Front. One featured a map of the United States with the words “not stolen, conquered”; another said “report all…
New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority is investigating a complaint from an Orthodox Jewish man who says he was discriminated against by a bus driver because of New York City’s measles epidemic, which is largely confined to the ultra-Orthodox community. The man said he was waiting at a bus stop in Brooklyn when the bus driver…
President Trump considered nominating his daughter and advisor Ivanka as president of the World Bank because “she’s very good with numbers,” he confirmed in an interview with the Atlantic published Friday. “She’s got a great calmness … I’ve seen her under tremendous stress and pressure,” the president continued. “She reacts very well—that’s usually a genetic…
Despite the disappointing news that the Israeli moon lander Beresheet crashed into the moon Thursday, benefactor Morris Kahn stayed positive. “Well we didn’t make it, but we definitely tried,” Kahn, president of SpaceIL, the nonprofit responsible for the mission, told The New York Times. “And I think the achievement of getting to where we got…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The dark horse Democratic presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, got a pro-Israel boost with the endorsement of Steve Grossman, the former president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Grossman, who in the 1990s was chairman of the Democratic National Committee as well as AIPAC president,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives known for their ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee warned Israel not to annex West Bank territory, days after Benjamin Netanyahu’s election-eve pledge to do just that. The statement by Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., Ted Deutch, D-Fla. and…
One of the biggest ultra-Orthodox newspapers in the country published an op-ed about the measles outbreak in their community, in which it cited religious mandates to vaccinate children — and took the rare step of translating it into English. Der Yid, the New York-based weekly read by Satmar Hasidim and read by the wider Haredi community,…
(JTA) — The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly appointed Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal as its new chief executive. Blumenthal, the spiritual leader at Shaare Torah in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will start in July, the organization announced Thursday. He succeeds Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the first woman to serve as chief executive of a major rabbinical organization. She announced in March 2018 that…
(JTA) — The student government at the University of California, Santa Barbara rejected an Israel divestment resolution. Santa Barbara is the only school in the University of California system whose student government has not passed a divestment proposal targeting Israel, according to the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus. It marked the sixth time in seven years…
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