A botched Israeli mission may have just introduced an incredibly resilient lifeform to the moon, Wired reported Monday. The lunar lander Beresheet, which would have been the first private spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon, instead crashed on the surface in April. When it did, it dumped its contents, including a “lunar library”…
The man who allegedly killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday showed a woman footage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on their first date, the woman told the Associated Press. Adelia Johnson said she met suspect Connor Betts in a college psychology class this year and that they dated for a few months until…
Presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is having a moment — she received praise from commentators for her attacks on Sen. Kamala Harris’ prosecutorial record during last week’s Democratic presidential debate, and the latest New Hampshire poll has seen her rise to sixth place. But some of America’s most prominent white nationalists have taken credit for…
A New York state court has ordered Fordham University to recognize a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, ending a two-year legal saga. The dean’s office at Fordham, a Jesuit Catholic school with campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan and Westchester County, had banned SJP in 2017 after the student government voted to approve it….
The Anglican Church of Canada voted last month to remove a call to convert the Jews from one of its prayer books, the Canadian Jewish News reported. The Church’s General Synod voted 99% in favor of replacing the entry in the Book of Common Prayer with a new invocation called “For Reconciliation with the Jews.”…
The government needs to invest more in combating the threat of violent domestic extremism, the acting Secretary of Homeland Security told CBS News on Tuesday. Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan was asked on CBS This Morning about a Los Angeles Times report that found that a new Homeland Security office tasked with countering “racially motivated violence”…
(JTA) — A Jewish family from the United Kingdom complained to police about a young man who was filmed hurling an object in their direction and calling them “dirty Jews” on a London street after shoving their baby stroller. The incident Sunday, which police are treating as a hate crime, escalated after the man pushed…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Police recommended indicting Israeli lawmaker Yaakov Litzman for bribery and aiding an alleged pedophile. Litzman, who heads the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and serves as deputy health minister, could be charged with fraud and breach of trust for helping alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer including preventing her…
(JTA) — An ethnic studies curriculum proposed by the California Department of Education is “inaccurate and misleading” and reflects an “anti-Jewish bias,” Jewish members of the state’s legislature wrote to the head of the committee writing the curriculum. The California Legislative Jewish Caucus says that the curriculum “effectively erases the American Jewish experience,” “omits anti-Semitism,”…
(JTA) — Shots from a BB gun were fired at the Valley Village Community Kollel in Los Angeles. The building was struck on Sunday morning, while the Kollel was in session inside, the Yeshiva World news website reported. No one was injured from the shots. A car parked outside of the building had a window…
(JTA) — A letter sent by National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer to party members identified three “left-wing radicals” that he says “bought control of Congress for the Democrats.” They are all Jewish. Emmer represents Minnesota’s Sixth District in the U.S. House. The Minneapolis-based American Jewish World newspaper first saw the letter, which is said…
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