WASHINGTON (JTA) — The State Department’s removal of the word “Palestinians” from a web page listing countries and areas covered by its Bureau for Near East Affairs does not reflect a change in policy, a spokeswoman said. “The website is being updated,” the spokeswoman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an email. “There has been…
(Reuters) – A Florida man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for threatening to behead U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said. The man, 58-year-old Robert Pratersch of Kissimmee, in September 2018 left three voicemail messages at Sanders’ Vermont office where he made anti-Semitic threats and threatened to…
(JTA) — The roof of the Milwaukee Jewish Day school collapsed, sending steel beams and debris crashing down into a classroom, a week before the start of school. Two staff members were in the classroom on Friday preparing for the start of school, but left when they heard creaking noises, according to local reports. Moments…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on the exterior walls of a synagogue in Connecticut. The graffiti on the Congregation Adath Israel synagogue building in Newtown was discovered at 7:30 Saturday morning. The graffiti was removed and painted over prior to the start of scheduled Shabbat services with the assistance of the town’s Public Works…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rep. Jerry Nadler criticized fellow Democrats Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for sharing a cartoon that shows President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu covering their mouths. Omar, D-Minn., and Tlaib, D-Mich., were criticized for sharing it last week because the cartoonist Carlos Latuff participated in an anti-Semitic Holocaust…
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. has started a kosher menu in order to attract more Orthodox Jewish customers, The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. The meals will come pre-sealed from a kosher catering company in Maryland, the Post reported. Washington has long been known for its lack of kosher restaurant options — there’s only…
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Canadian editor was handed one-year prison sentence for promoting hatred against Jews and women in his publication. James Sears, editor of the quarterly Your Ward News in Toronto, was sentenced Thursday to two six-month terms by Judge Richard Blouin of the Ontario Court of Justice. The publication promoted Holocaust denial and…
Jared Kushner told Republican donors that people being released from jail are registering for the party, Axios reported. The senior White House adviser talked up his prison reform law at a donor retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last week, according to people in attendance. President Trump, his father-in-law, signed the bill into law at the…
(JTA) — A former camper at an upstate New York Boy Scout camp is accusing former Rep. Gary Ackerman of being a sexual predator. The lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses Ackerman, who served for 15 terms as a New York City congressman until his retirement in 2012, of trying to touch and fondle…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israel has become Brazil’s closest ally in battling fires currently raging in the Amazon rainforest. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday to offer assistance in extinguishing the blazes. Israel will send a firefighting aircraft and flame-retardant materials, reported O Globo newspaper. “Many thanks to dozens…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Leaders of the far-right Jewish Power or Otzma Yehudit Party cannot run in the upcoming national elections, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled. The court ruled late Sunday evening that Baruch Marzel and Bentzi Gopstein can not run Knesset in the September 17 elections over statements they have made against Arabs that are considered…
