Although he fasted for 24 hours in observance of Yom Kippur, a member of the Queens Park Rangers hopped off the bench and into the soccer game as soon as the holy day ended, the Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and one of the holiest days in Judaism, ended after…
A former Yale Law School student said that a few years ago she was warned by a professor during her clerkship interview process that Judge Brett Kavanaugh liked his female clerks to have a “certain look,” HuffPost reported. The outlet reported that Jed Rubenfeld and his wife, Amy Chua — author of the 2011 book…
A Republican activist who donated $20,000 to Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis tweeted that President Obama was a “MUSLIM N——,” Politico reported Thursday. Steven Alembik, who also lined up a speech for DeSantis at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, told Politico that he wrote the tweet in anger. He denied being a racist and said he…
A Republican Jewish candidate who said “diversity is a bunch of crap” is down big in his southern New Jersey House race, which is now set to elect a Democrat for the first time in 24 years, a recent poll shows. Seth Grossman trails State Senator Jeff Van Drew by 23 points in a district…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will donate $10 million to organizations that promote women in leadership and combat domestic violence, following an investigation into workplace misconduct within the team, Sports Illustrated reported. Cuban, who is Jewish, came to the agreement with the NBA, which could have fined him only up to $2.5 million. The report…
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals hurled a rock into a synagogue in Gdansk in northern Poland, shattering the glass of one window while worshippers, including children, were inside. The assault on Gdansk’s New Synagogue occurred on Wednesday, during Yom Kippur, one of Judaism’s holiest days, the Jewish Religious Community in Gdansk wrote on its Facebook page….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators rioted along the Gaza border on Yom Kippur, throwing firebombs and rocks at Israel Defense Forces soldiers. The Israeli troops responded with riot dispersal methods, the IDF said in a statement. The Gaza Health Ministry said a Palestinian teen was killed and at least three others injured in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Police shot and killed a Palestinian man as he attempted to stab a Jewish man on his way to the Western Wall after the start of Yom Kippur. The would-be stabber was charging at the Jewish victim brandishing a screwdriver about an hour after the start of the holiest day on…
(JTA) — Jewish families in Wilmington, North Carolina were able to eat a kosher meal before the start of Yom Kippur after the Chabad synagogue in nearby Charlotte was able to arrange the arrival of a helicopter carrying 150 pounds of kosher food. After days with no contact due to Hurricane Florence, Rabbi Yossi Groner…
Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is a time when many non-regular Israeli synagogue-goers take time to pray. It is also an annual opportunity for children to ride their bicycles on deserted streets. Almost all Israeli road traffic stops on Yom Kippur as most of the country’s Jewish majority refrains from driving….
Actor Tom Arnold tussled with Reality TV maven Mark Burnett at a pre-Emmys party Sunday, September 16, and the story just keeps getting stranger. The fight, for which Arnold filed a police report Monday morning, appears to be regarding the long-rumored outtakes of Burnett’s show “The Apprentice” in which Donald Trump allegedly drops the N-word….
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