(JTA) — Graffiti reading “Kill All Jews” and a swastika were discovered drawn in black marker in the stairwell of a high school in Brooklyn, New York. The graffiti was discovered on Thursday afternoon at Brooklyn Technical High School. A school employee discovered the message at the end of the school day, the New York Daily…
(JTA) — Is Jesus’ birthplace, the Church of the Nativity, located in Israel or Palestine? According to the popular prime time game show “Jeopardy!,” the answer just may be both. At the end of the first round on Friday night’s show, part of its popular Greatest Of All Time tournament, one question remained in the…
(JTA) — Marianne Williamson has ended her run for president. The Jewish writer and self-help guru made the announcement in a message to supporters on Friday, The New York Times reported. “I stayed in the race to take advantage of every possible opportunity to share our message,” she said. “With caucuses and primaries now about…
(JTA) — The music streaming service Spotify said it would remove playlist titles deemed to contain anti-Semitic hate speech. A spokesperson for Spotify said this Thursday in a statement to the New York Post that the content in question violates company policy. The statement followed a report by The Times of Israel that found that…
(JTA) This is a developing story. NEW YORK (JTA) — The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an elite New York City prep school, has fired a teacher who posted tweets opposing Zionism. JB Brager, who taught history at Fieldston, was fired Thursday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned. The termination comes after Brager, who is Jewish,…
(JTA) — A New Jersey teen accused the manager of a local pizzeria of sending anti-Semitic text messages after he asked to take off for a Jewish holiday. Nicholas Bogan, 17, had been working for a short time at Maurizio’s Pizzeria & Italian Ristorante in Eatontown, New Jersey, when he asked to take off the…
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she is cancer free. Ginsburg told CNN Tuesday during a wide-ranging interview that treatment for a localized malignant tumor on her pancreas, discovered in July, was successful. “I’m cancer free. That’s good,” she said in the interview in her chambers. Ginsburg, 86, has been treated…
(JTA) — A swastika was drawn on the bald head of a 65-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in Toronto. The swastika drawn in black marker was discovered this week at the Glendale Care Centre by the man’s nephew, Shane Morrow, Toronto.com reported Wednesday. A smiley face also was drawn inside a wing of the swastika. The man,…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Participants at a protest rally in the Netherlands against the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani waved anti-Semitic posters, a local watchdog group told police. At the demonstration Tuesday in front of the American Embassy in Wassenaar near the Hague, two women were photographed holding up a poster titled “the makers of…
(JTA) — Moshe Peter Loth made headlines in November when he hugged defendant Bruno Dey during his trial in Hamburg, Germany. Loth is a Florida man who identified as a Holocaust survivor, and Dey is a former concentration camp guard. “Watch out everyone, I’m going to forgive him,” Loth, 76, said as he approached Dey,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi is under fire for calling immigrants from the former Soviet Union “Communist, religion-hating” gentiles. At a rabbinical conference in Jerusalem last week, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef criticized Israel’s Law of Return for granting citizenship to Russians who are not Jewish according to Orthodox religious law, the Yediot Acharonot daily…
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