JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli NGO IsraAID is distributing relief materials in Colombia to thousands of Venezuelans escaping harsh conditions in their country. An IsraAID emergency response team is on the ground in Cucuta, on the Colombian border with Venezuela, where thousands of Venezuelans are crossing daily seeking relief from the economic and political crisis…
An evangelical church near Miami postponed a pro-Israel event after the Israeli consul general in Miami participated in a rally supporting the LGBT community. The incident, which took place at the beginning of May, highlights the delicate balance that Israeli diplomats need to maintain as they appeal to polarized constituencies in the United States. In…
A basketball coach at a Jewish community center on Long Island was arrested and charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child after allegedly punching a 10-year-old, News 12 Long Island reported Monday. The incident allegedly took place at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center in Greenvale. According to police, the boy said…
The Women’s Resource Center at San Diego State University apologized last week for including a photo of a Palestinian terrorist in its weekly newsletter, the student newspaper The Daily Aztec reported. The photo featured airplane hijacker Leila Khaled holding a gun with the caption, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” It…
(JTA) — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that paying restitution for Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust would be a “victory” for Hitler. “If today anyone says that Poland has to pay damages to anyone, then we disagree and will continue to do so and it will not happen as long as the country…
President Trump’s legal efforts to keep his financial records sealed will go to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — where the chief judge is Merrick Garland, HuffPost explained Monday. A federal judge ruled on Monday in favor of the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s subpoena of president’s records from an accounting firm, Politico reported. Trump…
Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton shared for the first time on Monday the story of when Coretta Scott King harshly criticized him for his part in the deadly 1991 Crown Heights riots, JTA reported. Speaking at a conference in Washington organized by the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center, Sharpton didn’t directly bring up the…
One of President Trump’s lawyers told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the timeline of a Trump Tower project in Moscow, Cohen told the House Intelligence Committee earlier this year. In closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in February – two months after he was sentenced to three years in prison for, among…
The “alt-right” group Identity Evropa has rebranded to the American Identity Movement — and it’s planning its next action for July 4th weekend in Washington, D.C. Identity Evropa promotes a white nationalist ideology, with members who see themselves as “identitarians” preserving Western culture. The group rebranded after the left-wing media collective Unicorn Riot leaked tens of…
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police in Jerusalem over the weekend in protest of the Eurovision Song Contest final, which was held on Shabbat. The impassioned crowd blocked Haneviim Street and stopped traffic on Saturday, The Times of Israel reported. Protestors attacked officers responding to the demonstration, and one was arrested. The protestors, shouting…
A political debate in Poland devolved into anti-Semitic antics after far-right candidates tried to put a kippah on the head of a rival politician, saying that her party “kneels before the Jews,” the Times of Israel reported Sunday. One candidate from the far-right Confederation group put a kippah in front of the woman representing the…
