(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…
New York City health officials shuttered two more Orthodox Jewish schools in Brooklyn on Monday for failing to comply with an order that bans students who can’t prove they have received a measles vaccine, bringing the total number of schools closed to seven, New York 1 reported. Health officials are taking a hard line as…
White nationalists stormed a Washington, D.C. bookstore on Saturday, chanting “This land is our land” to interrupt an author speaking about whiteness and racism. About ten people came into the store Politics and Prose, where psychiatrist Jonathan M. Metzl was there to discuss his book “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is…
(JTA) — Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to President Donald Trump. His last day in office will be May 11. He had said in January that he would step down when a new attorney general was confirmed. William Barr was confirmed in February Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to…
(JTA) — Last year saw the third-highest number of anti-Semitic incidents since 1979, despite a decrease from the previous year, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. Though the 1,879 incidents in 2018 dropped from the 1,986 incidents in 2017, according to the ADL’s annual survey of incidents released Tuesday, the number of anti-Semitic…
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