(JTA) — Chelsea, the British soccer club, is planning to send fans who are caught chanting anti-Semitic songs on a tour of the former death camp of Auschwitz instead of punishing them. The team’s owner, Roman Abramovich, who is Jewish, has spearheaded a new initiative to combat anti-Semitism, according to the report about he plan…
(JTA) — Israeli security services apprehended a man they said stabbed a soldier and caused the injury of a bystander in the West Bank. The suspect in Wednesday’s stabbing is a 19-year-old Palestinian resident of the Jamain village in the West Bank, the Israel Broadcasting Corp. reported Thursday. He was captured near Nablus. He allegedly…
MONTREAL (JTA) — Quebec’s incoming government wants to ban some public servants from wearing religious symbols to work, spurring concerns from Jewish groups. The proposed ban by the Coalition Avenir Québec government is ostensibly to make Quebec public institutions more secular and “neutral” religiously. It would bar police, prison guards, public school teachers and some…
Still reveling in his team’s win against the San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen tweeted a clip Wednesday of him celebrating a play, captioned “Shabbat Shalom.” Just a little early, Josh! Shabbat Shalom #HebrewHammer ✡️ pic.twitter.com/uUoPIo3jVl — Josh Rosen (@josh3rosen) October 10, 2018 Let’s chalk it up to excitement. The game ended in…
Tensions were high between Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI director Andrew McCabe back in 2017, around the time Robert Mueller was tapped to investigate Russia’s possible involvement in the 2016 election, the Washington Post reported. Both men wanted the other to back away from investigation, people familiar with the situation said. They…
A Democratic congresswoman described Israel’s nation-state law as “apartheid” at a Palestinian rights event, Mondoweiss reported last week. Accepting a leadership award at the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights conference on September 30, Rep. Betty McCollum said that Israel’s policies were “brutal” and “cruel” and explained her bill to end U.S. funding for the detention…
Federal authorities were holding a New York man who they said planned to blow himself up on Washington’s National Mall on Election Day in November to promote his ideology that requires government leaders to be randomly selected. Paul Rosenfeld, 56, was charged on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with building multiple explosives, including…
A number of Jewish Democratic challengers running for Congress have seen their chances increase with national Republican groups withdrawing financial support and all but conceding the races. With less a month before the Nov. 6 vote, the GOP is making tough choices to try and hold their losses to fewer than 23 seats, which would…
A New York appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Hasidic man who was found guilty for his role in the beating of a black man in 2013, The New York Times reported. Five Orthodox men were accused of beating and blinding Taj Patterson, a black fashion student in Brooklyn, on Dec. 1, 2013….
(Reuters) – A New York judge on Thursday dismissed one of the six criminal charges against movie producer Harvey Weinstein after prosecutors said they could not oppose the dismissal in light of information they had learned while investigating the case. The dismissed charge concerns an alleged sexual assault of a woman by Weinstein in 2004….
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration’s goal is to remove Iran and its proxies from Syria, and it will use assistance to Syria as an incentive to do so. That formula is likely to disappoint Israel, where security and government officials have held out for a more forceful…
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