(JTA) — A 13-year-old Estonian led an international neo-Nazi group that planned to bomb a synagogue and a U.S. news network, according to an Associated Press report. The teen called himself “Commander” of the Feuerkrieg Division, a group that the Anti-Defamation League says “embraces the most extreme interpretations of white supremacist ideology,” until Estonian police…
(JTA) — The Jewish owner of a bagel chain in Scotland said she was “shocked” after the landlord of one of her stores called her request for an alternative rent payment because of the coronavirus crisis “typical Jewish behavior.” Larah Bross, who owns Bross Bagels, told the Edinburgh News late last week that she has…
(JTA) — A second synagogue was vandalized in Huntsville, Alabama, days after another one was plastered with anti-Semitic slurs. The Chabad of Huntsville was spray-painted with swastikas and what local media describes as anti-Semitic graffiti and racial slurs on Thursday night. Surveillance video shows an unidentified suspect painting on the synagogue’s property for about 20…
Israel’s prime minister and president were criticized on social media Thursday for having Passover Seders with children who live outside their home – despite strict quarantine measures that banned such gatherings. The Israeli government ordered Jewish citizens to stay in their homes with no exceptions from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning, in order to stop…
A synagogue in Alabama was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti as Passover began, the local news website AL.com reported Thursday. The graffiti on the property of Etz Chayim Congregation, a Conservative synagogue in Huntsville, included swastikas and the words “Jew scum” and “Holohoax.” Community leaders told AL.com that they believed the vandalism was timed to coincide…
Ahead of Passover, the Met Council for Jewish Poverty, a New York-based charity, delivered hundreds of thousands of packages of kosher-for-Passover food to senior citizens and others stuck at home because of coronavirus. With many afraid or unable to leave the house because of coronavirus, or facing financial instability because of coronavirus-related economic slowdown, the…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who pushed progressive issues and outlasted nearly all his political opponents on the strength of tremendous small-amount fundraising, has dropped out of the presidential race, clearing the field for former Vice President Joe Biden to serve as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Sanders’ campaign had a lively, and sometimes controversial,…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history, dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee. “I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful,” Sanders said in a livestreamed address to supporters. “And so…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — At least 15 people have died at the main Jewish elderly home in Amsterdam and another 22 are infected with the disease. COVID-19 began infecting Beth Shalom residents in the middle of March, just before management imposed a lockdown, a spokesperson for the medical administration Cordaan, which runs the home, told Het…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted on a synagogue in Los Angeles. “F**k Kikes” followed by “Daniel M” was painted on the outside of the Ahavat Shalom synagogue, an Orthodox Persian synagogue. A photo of the graffitied synagogue was first posted on Facebook Tuesday by a sports management student at the University of Delaware who…
The most prominent Jewish newspapers in Britain and Canada have both announced this week that they will soon close due to a lack of funds exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The closures will leave the nations with the fourth- and fifth-biggest Jewish populations in the world without non-sectarian newspapers that cover the nationwide Jewish community….
