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…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic flyers that blame Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were hung on the doors of Iowa organizations. The hate flyers discovered on Monday are the same ones posted on at least four college campuses across the country. The flyers were posted on the doors…
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to the Saudi crown prince to request information into the disappearance of a journalist from one of its diplomatic facility, Reuters reported. Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, spoke with Mohammed Bin Salman on Oct. 2, the day Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, was declared missing after…
The largest Jewish movement in American has called for the release of the American student with Palestinian grandparents who has been detained at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport for the past week. Rabbi Joshua Weinberg, vice president for Israel and Reform Zionism of the Union for Reform Judaism, wrote in a statement that the organization is…
A California man faces charges of vandalism and arson after setting a small fire outside a local congregation and drawing a devil on its walkway, the Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday. Police were alerted of a person, later identified as Brett Allen Bisnett, loitering around Congregation Beth Shalom in Modesto on Monday evening. Bisnett, who told…
(JTA) — When he and his wife moved to Pensacola, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, Rabbi Mendel Danow expected to spend the following couple of weeks settling in and buying supplies for their new home. Instead, two days after getting off the plane, Danow found himself driving to a Walmart in Alabama to buy five 40-packs…
The owners of a Jewish summer camp in New York have sued the Rockland County Health Department for discriminating against their business because they are ultra-Orthodox Jews, The Journal News reported. The lawsuit, filed by camp owners Ephraim and Rivka Weissmandl, also includes a complaint accusing an agency inspector of making sexual comments toward her….
(JTA) — The University of Michigan is sanctioning the professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student to study in Israel because he supports a boycott of the country. John Cheney-Lippold, a professor of American culture, last month declined to recommend junior Abigail Ingber for a semester abroad in Israel because…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 3,000 acres of forest in the Northern and Western Negev desert have been damaged by arson attacks from Gaza. Marking six months since Palestinians in Gaza began sending incendiary balloons and kites over the border toward southern Israel, Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael-Jewish National Fund reported Wednesday that some 3,279 acres, a…
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