The family of the man accused of conducting a mass shooting at a California synagogue aren’t planning on paying for a lawyer for their son, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Nineteen-year-old John Earnest will be arraigned on Tuesday and charged with felonies in connection to the synagogue shooting, as well as the arson of a…
NEW YORK (JTA) – The Anti-Defamation League found that 3,044 total acts of hate, extremism, anti-Semitism and terror were committed in the United States in 2018. 1,879 of these were anti-Semitic acts – including assault, vandalism and harassment. Of these 1,879 acts of anti-Semitism, 249 (13 percent) were attributable to known extremist groups or individuals…
Chabad of Poway member Oscar Stewart, one of two congregants who took action to chase away the shooter during the deadly attack on Saturday, was praised by San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore for his “act of courage,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday. Stewart, a Navy veteran who served in the Iraq War and…
The regents of the University of Minnesota voted Friday not to re-name four buildings named after past college leaders with racist and anti-Semitic histories. After a two-hour public hearing, the regents voted 10-1 to keep the names of the Coffman Memorial Union, Nicholson Hall, Middlebrook Hall, and Coffey Hall, despite a 125-page report from a…
(JTA) — A City Council leader in Indiana has apologized for using the anti-Semitic phrase “Jewed them down” in a recent meeting. The incident happened at an April 15 meeting of the Jeffersonville City Council, in the southern part of the state. When a local fire department employee requested a new truck, the council’s vice…
Activist Ady Barkan testified to the House Rules Committee on Tuesday about the merits of “Medicare for All” healthcare proposals, relying on a synthetic speech machine due to the effects of the progressive neurological disease ALS. Barkan, 35, drew on his family’s own experience fighting health insurance companies for full treatments and paying thousands of…
The man charged with murder and attempted murder for killing one person and injuring three more at a Poway, California synagogue on Saturday was also charged with setting fire to a nearby mosque last month. John Earnest, 19, was given a charge of “use of explosives in acts of terrorism in specified places” in connection…
Former congressman Anthony Weiner, newly released from prison after pleading guilty to sending obscene text messages to an underage girl, is attempting to sell a book proposal, the New York Post reported Tuesday. But he’s reportedly been having trouble finding a buyer: “Every Simon & Schuster imprint has passed,” a source told The Post. Weiner…
(JTA) — A U.S. Army veteran was arrested for planning terror attacks in the Los Angeles area, including against Jews. Mark Domingo was arrested Friday after he received what he thought was a bomb from an undercover federal officer. At a news conference Monday, officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI and Los Angeles Police…
California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing to earmark $15 million in his next budget to supporting security efforts at places of worship, the Los Angeles Times reported. The announcement came on the same day that Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi injured in the attack on Chabad of Poway Saturday, said that increased support for funding…
Chabad of Poway, where three people were injured and one killed in a shooting Saturday, wanted armed security guards but couldn’t afford it, its rabbi told TIME Magazine. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose hands were damaged during the attack, said that he had been fearful of an attack on his synagogue in the wake of the…
די נײַע אױסגאַבע באַטאָנט דעם בײַטראָג פֿון סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער אין דער אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער מאָדערנער ייִדישער קולטור.
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