(JTA) — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that paying restitution for Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust would be a “victory” for Hitler. “If today anyone says that Poland has to pay damages to anyone, then we disagree and will continue to do so and it will not happen as long as the country…
President Trump’s legal efforts to keep his financial records sealed will go to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — where the chief judge is Merrick Garland, HuffPost explained Monday. A federal judge ruled on Monday in favor of the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s subpoena of president’s records from an accounting firm, Politico reported. Trump…
Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton shared for the first time on Monday the story of when Coretta Scott King harshly criticized him for his part in the deadly 1991 Crown Heights riots, JTA reported. Speaking at a conference in Washington organized by the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center, Sharpton didn’t directly bring up the…
One of President Trump’s lawyers told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the timeline of a Trump Tower project in Moscow, Cohen told the House Intelligence Committee earlier this year. In closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in February – two months after he was sentenced to three years in prison for, among…
The “alt-right” group Identity Evropa has rebranded to the American Identity Movement — and it’s planning its next action for July 4th weekend in Washington, D.C. Identity Evropa promotes a white nationalist ideology, with members who see themselves as “identitarians” preserving Western culture. The group rebranded after the left-wing media collective Unicorn Riot leaked tens of…
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police in Jerusalem over the weekend in protest of the Eurovision Song Contest final, which was held on Shabbat. The impassioned crowd blocked Haneviim Street and stopped traffic on Saturday, The Times of Israel reported. Protestors attacked officers responding to the demonstration, and one was arrested. The protestors, shouting…
A political debate in Poland devolved into anti-Semitic antics after far-right candidates tried to put a kippah on the head of a rival politician, saying that her party “kneels before the Jews,” the Times of Israel reported Sunday. One candidate from the far-right Confederation group put a kippah in front of the woman representing the…
(JTA) — An unknown arsonist attempted twice to set on fire a synagogue building in downtown Chicago, while vandals smashed the windows of cars parked outside of a synagogue on the far north side of the city. Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told reporters on Sunday that Chicago Police Deputy Superintendent Anthony Ricci ordered that…
(JTA) — Palestinian leaders rejected a plan for an economic workshop announced as the first part of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan. The Palestinians say they were not consulted on the plan to hold the conference next month in Bahrain. Finance ministers and global and regional business leaders will meet June 25-26 in Manama…
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish actor and comedian, was sworn in Monday as president of Ukraine and said his nation must defend their land like Israelis. Zelensky took the oath of office reportedly on a copy of the country’s constitution and a 16th-century manuscript of the New Testament. “We must become Icelanders in football,…
(JTA) — Netflix has dropped an Australian comedian who made jokes about the Holocaust and insulted a Jewish audience member who later complained in an email. Last month, Isaac Butterfield asked his audience at the Melbourne Comedy Festival to “imagine the joy of people when they heard the Jews were sent to the gas chambers,”…
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