Funerals will be held on Wednesday for two victims of a mass shooting at their Pittsburgh synagogue, including the man who was leading shabbat services when the attack – in which 11 worshipers died – took place. Melvin Wax, 88, and retired university researcher Joyce Fienberg, 75, will be remembered in separate services, local media…
(JTA) — A woman was elected mayor of Haifa for the first time and incumbent mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, will serve a fifth term after municipal elections were held across Israel. Voters in Jerusalem will return to the polls in two-week’s time for a run-off election between the top two vote getters. Jerusalem…
(JTA) — Far right wing Israeli minister Naftali Bennett defended President Donald Trump against critics who have tied Trump’s rhetoric to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. “Using the horrible anti-Semitic massacre to attack the president is unfair, it’s wrong,” Bennett told JTA in a phone interview Tuesday. “He condemned anti-Semitism in the strongest possible words. Clearly…
President Trump visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where eleven Jews were massacred Saturday as growing protests of up to 2,000 people also converged on the scene Tuesday afternoon. They were greeted by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who led them inside the temple. Emerging about 18 minutes later, the president went to a memorial outside the building, where…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has asked the FBI to look into claims that women were offered money to fabricate sexual assault allegations against Mueller, who leads the probe into Russia’s attempts to influence the U.S. election in 2016. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims…
A campaign ad featuring a Jewish Senate candidate greedily clutching money has many calling out its overt anti-Semitic tone. In the ad is Rep. Matthew Lesser, a Connecticut Democrat who gave up his seat in Connecticut’s House to run for State Senate. The mailer was sent out by Republican Ed Charamut, a member of the…
Mister Rogers was a neighbor of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill, where a mass shooting took the lives of 11 at prayer in a local synagogue. With one drawing, an artist effectively summed up how he would — and many do — feel in the wake of the tragedy. Artist Sasha Phillips drew a photo of Fred…
The Pittsburgh Penguins will wear “stronger than hate” patches on their jerseys during their Tuesday night game, in honor of the 11 people killed over the weekend in a mass shooting at a synagogue in their city, the National Hockey League reported. The patch will feature the hockey team’s modified logo, which pairs mascot Penguin…
The man accused of killing 11 people at prayer in a Pittsburgh synagogue was cared for by Jewish medical staff, AP reported. Robert Bowers was shouting, “Kill the Jews!” during the massacre, said Jeffery Cohen, president of Allegheny General Hospital, which treated the suspect. Cohen told WTAE-TV on Monday that the first people to tend…
Holocaust survivor Judah Samet said he doesn’t believe President Trump’s harsh rhetoric bears the blame of the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, where 11 people were killed at prayer, the Washington Post reported. Samet narrowly avoided the shooting — he was four minutes late to morning services at the Tree of Life Congregation on…
President Trump vowed to end the blanket right to citizenship for children born on American soil in an interview with Axios Tuesday morning. But legal eagle Alan Dershowitz, known for his frequent defenses of Trump, says that the 14th Amendment authorizes birthright citizenship and it can’t just be changed by executive order. “[Birthright citizenship] doesn’t…
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