In April Chicago elected a new mayor: Lori Lightfoot, the first black woman to lead the third-largest city in the country. In several appearances, most notably at her victory party and her recent swearing-in, she was joined by her wife, Amy Eshleman. So who is Amy? Eshleman and Lightfoot have been together for 16 years,…
Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company owned by the Sackler family that lied about the addictiveness of its drugs and fueled a national health crisis that has claimed 400,000 lives, is currently the subject of over 2,000 lawsuits in the U.S. The company can now add Italy to its list of woes, as detailed in a…
You may never have come into contact with a Jewish pig. But the Germans have. Around 30 churches in Europe — mostly in Germany — have stone carvings on their facades that depict the medieval folk-art image of the judensau: the “Jewish pig,” an anti-Semitic image that features Jews touching and suckling a large pig….
(JTA) — A British university has fired a lecturer who condemned the formation of a campus Jewish society and shared Holocaust denial material on social media. Maaruf Ali, a lecturer in computers and electronics at the University of Essex, wrote in February on Facebook that “the Zionists next want to create a society here at…
(JTA) — For the first time in its history, Israel will hold a second national election in one year, four months after the last election in April. The Israeli Knesset voted at midnight Thursday to dissolve itself, triggering elections on September 17. The unprecedented vote happened after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to assemble a…
It’s no surprise that Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas don’t see eye to eye when it comes to abortion. But recent rulings took their dispute to a whole new level. The justices exchanged jeers after a compromise decision on Tuesday regarding lawsuits challenging Indiana abortion laws brought by Planned Parenthood. The…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his signed a plea deal in a fraud case against her. Sara Netanyahu is accused of ordering some $96,000 worth of private meals from high-end restaurants in 2010 and 2013 rather than using the cook at the prime minister’s residence to prepare meals, violating…
The Jewish population in Brazil is growing, as descendants of forcibly converted Jews are discovering their roots with the help of new genealogy tools and a charismatic rabbi, Religion News Service reported. The ancestors of Bnei Anusim, or the “children of the coerced,” were forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition, the 15th…
A court in Poland sentenced two activists to prison, and nine others were ordered to pay fines, in connection with a bizarre 2017 incident in which the protesters slaughtered a sheep, stripped naked and chained themselves to the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Protest organizer Adam Bialiatski, who killed the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An open-government watchdog group and several news outlets filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and members of the Florida State Cabinet over a meeting being held in Jerusalem. The Cabinet meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem was scheduled to be held on Wednesday afternoon. The lawsuit said that the…
(JTA) — An eruv, or symbolic boundary for Sabbath-observant Jews, was removed from a neighborhood on Staten Island. The eruv had been put up on utility poles around the neighborhood by a group of Hasidic Orthodox Jewish residents. They removed it after other residents put up lawn signs expressing opposition to an influx or religious…
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