Two men are reopening a civil suit against the organization that runs the national Ramah chain of Conservative Jewish sleep-away camps, alleging that they suffered sexual abuse and that the camp’s administration covered up the abuse. (Disclosure: The law firm representing the plaintiffs is using the Forward’s website and email subscriber list to advertise this…
Rep. Elijah Cummings is a 23-year veteran of Congress and chairs the House Oversight and Reform Committee, but most Americans likely first heard of when when President Trump went on a multi-day Twitter tirade criticizing him and his Baltimore congressional district. Cummings is well-known and well-liked among his district’s large Jewish community, JTA reported. He’s…
(JTA) — Central New York’s oldest synagogue is being redeveloped as student housing for Syracuse University. Temple Concord, also known as the Temple Society of Concord, lays claim to being the ninth-oldest congregation in the United States. It sold its building for $9 million to Landmark Properties, a developer of luxury student apartments, according to…
CreepyDershowitz is trending on Twitter, where users are scrutinizing Alan Dershowitz’ legal argument to lower the age of consent to 16. On July 29th, The New Yorker published a profile of Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer and professor Emiretus of Harvard law school who has recently come under fire for his connections to, and alleged involvement…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli soldiers found a pipe bomb hidden at the Jewish holy site of Joseph’s Tomb prior to the visit of 1,200 pilgrims. The bomb was neutralized in a controlled explosion, according to the Israel Defense Forces, which had been carrying out a security check prior to the late Monday night visit. Palestinian…
(JTA) — Jewish leaders in Baltimore have come to the defense of Rep. Elijah Cummings, the African-American Democrat who has come under withering attack from President Trump. After spending a week berating the group of four Democratic freshman known as “The Squad” — all women of color — Trump used Twitter over the weekend to…
A French city official recently turned 40, and in his honor was given a cake decorated with a swastika, Israel National News reported. The Simon Wiesenthal Center reposted the photo of Montpelier councillor Djamel Boumaaz’s cake: white with a graham-cracker-like bottom layer, candied-cherry border and a swastika drawn in the center with black icing. The…
(JTA) — A man was shot outside of a synagogue in North Miami Beach. The victim was shot several times in the leg on Sunday evening, as he stood outside of the Young Israel of Greater Miami waiting for the daily mincha prayers to begin, according to reports. Police told local media that a man…
(JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he would “absolutely” consider cutting U.S. aid to Israel to pressure the Israeli government to act different. “This is not easy stuff — to try to finally bring peace to the Middle East and to treat the Palestinian people with a kind of respect and dignity they…
(JTA) — A second CNN staff member has apologized for tweets offensive to the Jewish community. Karim Farid, who has a digital tech show on CNN Arabic, came under fire Friday for Arabic tweets from 2011 where he tweeted “I love you Hitler,” and praised the Nazi leader for “his determination to reach his goal.”…
The California Supreme Court unanimously overturned a white supremacist’s death sentence after they found that prosecutors tainted the jury’s deliberations by focusing on his Nazi tattoos, The Washington Post reported. Jeffrey Scott Young, who at the time was affiliated with neo-Nazi groups like the Aryan Brotherhood, was on trial for murder in 2006. He was…
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