JERUSALEM (JTA) — Vandals broke into a Jerusalem synagogue and tossed four Torah scrolls on the floor. The break-in took place in the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood on Monday night. Worshippers arrived on Tuesday morning and found the Torah scrolls, prayer books and other Jewish artifacts strewn all over the floor. A hole was cut in…
White House senior advisor Stephen Miller said he would be “happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched America’s soil,” a new tell-all book by a former Trump administration staffer claims. “Team of Vipers,” by former White House communications advisor Cliff Sims, details the infighting and backstabbing that took place between administration officials….
Prominent Democrats are launching a centrist pro-Israel group to counter a drift away from Israel on the party’s left that could lead to an embrace of BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. The Democratic Majority for Israel, according to a story appearing Monday evening on The New York Times website, will be led by…
The United States Senate voted 74-19 on Monday to advance a bill that would give cover to states to pass laws banning business with supporters of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel – a move supported by many Jewish and pro-Israel organizations but opposed by free speech advocates and some left-wing Jewish…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Cabinet approved the export of medical cannabis. Some of the countries reportedly eager to trade with Israel include Australia, Germany, Austria and Mexico, according to Forbes. The approval on Sunday comes a month after the Knesset passed legislation to pave the way for the legal export of medical cannabis. The Netherlands…
Former Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn tried to fob off the president on the United Kingdom at a Goldman Sachs event at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last week, according to a report in Axios. Cohn, once one of the top executives at the massive investment firm, spoke at the event alongside Philip Hammond,…
(JTA) — A Miami police sergeant was fired over a video showing him throwing a wooden box engraved with a Star of David and a copy of the Tanach in the back of a pickup truck, calling them trash. Sgt. Roberto Destephan, a 13-year veteran of the force, had been suspended for the last two months…
(JTA) — Five American Jewish citizens filed a lawsuit against Airbnb alleging the company’s policy to ban listings from Jewish West Bank settlements discriminates against Jews. Two of the five plaintiffs also are Israeli citizens and live in Efrat in the West Bank. The lawsuit was filed last week in San Francisco, where Airbnb is…
(JTA) — Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said he is “seriously thinking of running for president.” In an interview aired on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, Schultz told correspondent Scott Pelley that he would run as a “centrist independent,” despite being a lifelong Democrat. Schultz said the reason he would run as an independent,…
Billionaire financier George Soros blasted China for its progress on artificial intelligence, hoping to “warn the world” of the threat it imposes, BuzzFeed News reported. Soros directed his speech at world leaders on Thursday at his annual dinner during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which criticized China’s development of an automated “social credit…
Lone Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces were helped out and shown appreciation on Thursday for “Yom Siddurim,” or Personal Errands Day. Nefesh B’Nefesh and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces hosted the sixth annual event, in which several agencies help lone soldiers, someone without immediate family in Israel who enlists in the IDF, check…
אין זײַנע „פֿאָרווערטס“־אַרטיקלען האָט ער קריטיקירט זייער צוגאַנג צום חורבן און צו ייִדישקײט.
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