Hundreds of protesters organized by the Jewish group Never Again Action marched on Amazon’s headquarters outside of Boston Thursday, leading to the arrest of 12 activists who refused to leave the building. The marchers sang protest songs while walking in the streets from the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston to Amazon’s building in Cambridge,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO, is dropping his bid for an independent run for the presidency. Schultz said he feared his candidacy could keep a moderate Democrat from ousting President Donald Trump. The billionaire philanthropist announced his decision in a letter Friday to supporters, Axios reported. Schultz, a longtime Democrat, launched…
(JTA) — A number of Jewish groups and lawyers are urging the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay the scheduled execution of a Jewish inmate who said his judge was anti-Semitic. In July, Dallas County Judge Lela Mays approved an Oct. 10 execution date for Randy Halprin, who was part of the “Texas 7” group…
(JTA) — Employees of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette donated to a local synagogue the $15,000 they had won along with a Pulitzer prize for their coverage of a deadly anti-Semitic shooting at the building. The newspaper won the money and prize in April for their “immersive, compassionate coverage,” as the judges wrote, the paper noted Wednesday….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Likud lawmaker close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to prevent egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall in exchange for a small ultranationalist faction dropping out ahead of this month’s Knesset election. The move would anger non-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, for whom the right to pray at…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli teen who was wounded in a Palestinian terror attack last month received his EMT certification on Thursday, only days after being released from the hospital. Dvir Shnerb, 19, was seriously injured in the Aug. 3 attack, which killed his sister, Rina, 17, and injured his father. The family, from Lod,…
Department of Labor official Leif Olson was reinstated following his resignation after a Bloomberg Law article accused him of making anti-Semitic comments, which he claimed were in fact sarcastic mockeries of anti-Semites, Fox News reported. Critics on the right and left claimed that Bloomberg Law had misinterpreted Olson’s comments. Olson resigned days before the story…
A Christian Orthodox priest in Nova Scotia, Canada was forced to retire after honoring Judaism and Israel in his sermon, The Canadian Jewish News reported. Vladimir Tobin, the head priest of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Church in Halifax, was told last month in a letter from the archbishop that he must leave the church following the…
Rabbi Arthur Waskow was arrested on Wednesday for blocking the entrance to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Philadelphia in protest of President Trump’s border policies. Waskow, one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, was demonstrating with the group ElderWitness and Friends, Public News Service reported. Around 100 people were present at…
The new school year got off to a rocky start at Chapman University in southern California, where hundreds of stickers publicizing a white supremacist group were posted around campus. The stickers, found Thursday morning, appeared to be from Patriot Front, the Orange County Register reported. Featuring a map of the United States and the words…
The Jewish Agency for Israel’s annual world Jewish population figures have been released, and they reveal that Jews continue to be spread throughout the world, although mostly concentrated in major countries. According to research by Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Sergio Della Pergola, the global Jewish population in 2019 is 14.6 million. There are 175…
100% of profits support our journalism
