(JTA) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Brooklyn synagogues will receive more security after an attack on a Chabad synagogue on Friday night. “The NYPD is adding security to this synagogue and others nearby,” the mayor said Sunday in a tweet which linked to a local article about the attack on…
Anthony Wiener, the disgraced former Congressman and failed New York City mayoral candidate, has been released early from the federal prison where he was serving a 21 month sentence for sending obscene text messages to an underage girl. He was assigned to a halfway house in New York, according to NPR. Weiner was a brash,…
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders officially launched his second campaign for president. The 2020 campaign launched on Tuesday morning with an email to supporters and a tweet which included a nearly 2-minute campaign video and a request for support. “I’m running for president. I am asking you to join me today as part of an unprecedented…
A critique of a freshman Democratic congresswoman over her ill-considered tweets that began with a Forward editor had made its way to the White House by Tuesday, when President Trump called for the congresswoman’s resignation during a Cabinet meeting. Trump, who himself has been accused of invoking anti-Semitic tropes at various points over the past…
A fringe YouTube personality was shot by a Los Angeles synagogue’s security guard after she live-streamed herself standing in front of the gate to the building. Zhoie Perez, 45, was shot Thursday outside the Etz Jacob Torah Center after filming for several minutes a guard gripping a handgun in reaction to her presence. She was…
Trump administration officials, Israeli leaders, and some Arab and European bureaucrats met this week in Warsaw for a conference on Middle East security. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was there. So was Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and advisor-at-large. Also in town? Sex-advice author and all-around Jewish political gadfly Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Boteach’s presence at…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — They voted for it before they voted against it. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives were in the odd position Wednesday of voting against a bill that included an initiative to combat anti-Semitism, a measure they initially insisted was in the national security interests of the United States. The bill itself…
Fox News will not air an ad for an Oscar-nominated documentary about American Nazism, the Hollywood Reporter reported. The 30-second ad, called “It Can Happen Here,” is for “A Night At The Garden,” a documentary short about a 1939 meeting of [the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization. That infamous meeting, which gathered 20,000 people…
Andrew Pollack, the Jewish father of one of the 17 people massacred at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last February 14, says he hasn’t smiled since his daughter Meadow was killed. Pollack has been one of the most vocal of the parents of the shooting victims, arguing that school leaders and elected officials…
A Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates who describes himself as a “second-generation refugee” from Palestine has apologized for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel social media posts. “This slander campaign is using five-year-old Facebook posts from my impassioned college days, posts that upon my reflection and with the blessing of time, I sincerely regret and…
Rep. Max Rose of New York was the first Democratic congressman to criticize fellow Democratic member of Congress Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for her remarks on Sunday suggesting AIPAC pays politicians to be pro-Israel – but he also called out the Republican Party for what he described as their hypocrisy on the issue. “Congresswoman Omar’s…
100% of profits support our journalism
