(JTA) — Two reports of anti-Semitic bullying at schools in Australia are receiving widespread media coverage. A photo that allegedly shows a 12-year-old Jewish student being forced to kneel to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate was circulated on social media. The incident occurred at the Cheltenham Secondary College in the town of Cheltenham,…
Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) is supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s conduct in a call with the president of Ukraine, Politico reported. Rose is a moderate Democrat elected in a predominantly Republican district in 2018’s “blue wave” that swept Democrats into power in the House. Even so, Trump won his congressional district by…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has emerged as Donald Trump’s main punching bag as the impeachment inquiry mounts, the Daily Beast reported. Trump called Schiff a “fraud” and a “lowlife” and suggested that Schiff had helped write the whistleblower complaint that led to public awareness of a call between Trump and the president of Ukraine in…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The windows of a synagogue in Brooklyn were broken during Rosh Hashanah services. A video showing people throwing milk crates at the the Rivnitz synagogue in the Williamsburg neighborhood was circulated Wednesday on social media. Police said that the incident took place on Monday afternoon and they were searching for two…
In an apparent first, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. sent High Holiday greetings to American Jews. The card, from Reema Bandar al Saud, the ambassador, (also known as Reema bint Bandar) was first reported by the Josh Lederman of NBC News. It’s not clear what format the card was sent out in, or who…
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders had two stents inserted for an artery blockage after being hospitalized in Las Vegas. A Wednesday statement by Jeff Weaver, an aide to the Vermont Democrat and presidential hopeful, said Sanders had “experienced some chest discomfort” at a Tuesday campaign event. Testing found a single artery blockage and the procedure…
(JTA) — A federal judge in New York has ordered billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to pay compensatory damages and legal fees to the National Jewish Democratic Council for using “legal sadism” to disband the organization. The NJDC now exists in name only as it works to recover its debts from its legal battle with…
The student councils for the undergraduate colleges at Yeshiva University announced on Thursday the reinstatement of the school’s Democratic club, after disciplining the group earlier this week after the College Democrats sponsored a march in support of LGBTQ students. The march was not officially sanctioned by the school’s administration, and this week the student councils…
Rabbis from the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements will participate in the White House’s annual High Holidays conference call on Friday, a change in procedure after two years without participating. Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin, the president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the union of Conservative rabbis, told the Forward on Thursday that their board had taken…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Holocaust survivors who were separated as children reunited in Israel after 75 years. Morris Sana, 87, and his cousin and friend Simon Mairowitz, 85, were convinced that the other had been killed by the Nazis, according to People magazine. They reconnected after their descendants found each other on Facebook. The men…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The prime minister of Malaysia defended his past anti-Semitic statements and questioned the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust in a speech at Columbia University. “I am exercising my right to free speech. Why is it that I can’t say something against the Jews, when a lot of people say…
