WASHINGTON (JTA) — Al Sharpton appealed to Reform Jews for a united front in facing down anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of bias and acknowledged his role in stoking division, recounting how the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow reprimanded him for his “cheap” rhetoric. The civil rights activist and CNN host reportedly has expressed regrets privately…
The family of an American-born lone soldier in the Israel Defense Forces who recently died by suicide is using social media to piece together what happened, The Times of Israel reported. Michaela Levit, 19, was found dead on her base in central Israel last week. Her body was flown to South Florida, where her family…
Al-Jazeera’s AJ+ Arabic channel pulled a video it posted to its social media channels Friday night that claimed Jews exploit the Holocaust and that Israel is the genocide’s “greatest beneficiary.” Two journalists who created the video were later suspended. The seven minute-long, Arabic-language video asserted that though the Holocaust did occur, “it’s different from how…
(JTA)– The Jewish Student Union sign at a Boston-area high school was vandalized with a swastika. The swastika was discovered Friday at Brookline High School, a public high school in a near Boston suburb, the CBS affiliate in Boston reported. “Anti-Semitic vandalism like this is a scary reminder that our work on fostering an inclusive,…
Updated 4:00 p.m. A couple that had moved to a heavily-Jewish neighborhood in Chicago were actually Christian missionaries who had been trying to pass as Jewish in order to promote their religion, the Jewish news website COLlive reported. The proselytizers, who went by David and Rivkah Costello, were exposed by a visitor from Brooklyn, New…
(JTA) — The German Bundestag is set to call the movement to boycott Israel anti-Semitic. The legislative body is expected to pass on Friday a non-binding resolution proposed by the four mainstream parties that calls to bar the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and any other group deemed anti-Semitic from receiving federal funds and from…
(JTA) – Most Democratic primary voters don’t follow news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all that closely, but have warm feelings about both Israel and the Palestinians. Those are some of the findings in a recent survey commissioned by the liberal pro-Israel group J Street. Four in five respondents agreed with the statement that “someone can be…
(JTA) — Bypassing students’ refusal to register a pro-Israel group at Williams College, administrators gave it an official status. The prestigious Massachusetts institution on Tuesday registered the Williams Initiative for Israel group, or WIFI, Williams’ director of media relations Gregory Shook told FIRE, a non-profit promoting freedom of expression on American campuses. Williams College “had a…
BOSTON (JTA) — A second suspicious fire in less than one week burned Thursday night outside of the home of the rabbi of a Chabad center in suburban Boston. The fires at the Center for Jewish Life Arlington-Belmont are being investigated as hate crimes. The Arlington Police Department and its Fire Department are working with…
(JTA) — Terrorist attacks on Israelis more than halved over March last month, which was the first month in over a year with no casualties among victims. The Israel Security Agency documented 126 attacks in April, compared to 308 in March, the agency said in its monthly report. The previous month with neither fatalities nor…
President Trump issued a full pardon on Wednesday night to Conrad Black, a Canadian newspaper mogul who was convicted in 2007 of fraud and obstruction of justice. Black has said he is a friend of Trump’s and wrote a book last year called “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.” Black has also written…
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