(JTA) — Al Franken addressed a Jewish group, reportedly the first public speech he has delivered since resigning from the Senate 19 months ago. He spoke on Sunday to the Jewish Family Service of St. Paul, Minnesota Post columnist Eric Black reported. Franken did not discuss the facts and circumstances that led to his resignation…
An 80-year-old Italian farmer mowed a giant swastika into a field on a hill, Newsweek reported. The swastika was drawn in San Damiano D’Asti, a small town about an hour’s drive from Turin. According to La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, the man played the massive crop symbol off as a joke, and then mowed the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Volkswagen, the car manufacturing giant, is joining with the Anti-Defamation League to fund a Berlin-based office that will research and combat anti-Semitism in Europe. “The initiative will focus on assessing the root causes of anti-Semitism, extremism, and bigotry in society and develop programs to counter it through advocacy and education,” ADL said…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A right-wing Israeli lawmaker said he wants to be the country’s justice minister so his religious party can “restore the Torah justice system.” Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, which includes his Jewish Home party, made the statement Sunday night at a Jerusalem Day event at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva…
A media producer publicly shared the heartbreaking story of his father’s death to illustrate the mental health crisis in the United States. Andrew Kimmel, a former head of live video at BuzzFeed News and producer of ABC’s “The Bachelor,” began his Twitter thread with a disclaimer that the story of his father’s suicide, which happened…
An Orange County, California man who created “kill lists” of prominent Jews was sentenced to more than two years in jail after pleading guilty to threatening two churches and a synagogue. Nicholas Rose, 28, was arrested last year after his parents told police their son wanted to “get a gun and kill some Jews,” the…
White House senior advisor Jared Kushner repeatedly refused to say in an interview with Axios aired on HBO Sunday whether his father-in-law President Trump’s conspiracy theories about Barack Obama’s heritage were racist. After Kushner told interviewer Jonathan Swan that he had never seen Trump say or do anything racist, Swan asked, “Was birtherism racist?” “Look,…
(JTA) – The number of hate crimes reported to the New York Police Department this year is nearly double the number reported in 2018 during the same period – and most incidents are anti-Semitic. The NYPD has received 176 hate crime complaints from Jan. 1 to May 19, constituting an 83 percent rise over the…
Two women in California said they were kicked out of their Uber after their driver discovered they were coming from a pro-Israel festival, the Jewish Journal reported. The women, who were identified in the article by pseudonyms, said they had ordered the Uber to pick them up on May 19 from the Celebrate Israel Festival,…
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday became the first presidential candidate to ever address the California Democratic Party’s Arab American Caucus. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, was one of several presidential candidates to travel to the California state party’s convention in Oakland over the weekend and address the assembly and its various caucuses. While there,…
When an animal rights activist hopped on stage and snatched Kamala Harris’s microphone during her speech at MoveOn’s Big Ideas Forum, the California senator’s husband swooped into action. Harris, a California senator and Democratic presidential candidate, was addressing a question about the gender pay gap when the man, dressed in black and sporting a man-bun,…
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