A professor at the University of Michigan rescinded his offer to write a recommendation letter for one of his students hoping to study abroad after he learned that she wanted to go to Israel, citing the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against the Jewish state. “As you may know, many University departments have pledged an…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi Moshe Havlin, the chief rabbi of the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, reportedly said he would withdraw kosher certification from a local catering company if Ethiopian women continued to prepare the food there, unless they could prove their Jewishness. Under Orthodox Jewish law, certain foods which were completely cooked by…
Parents who belong to an Orthodox synagogue in London have been warned to ensure their children’s good behavior during Yom Kippur after many kids damaged congregational property during Rosh Hashanah services last week, The Jewish Chronicle reported Tuesday. “The wonderful atmosphere on both days of Rosh Hashanah and the hard work that was put into…
Elaine Luria, a Jewish Navy veteran, has jumped ahead to an eight-point lead in a crucial Virginia Beach congressional race as her Republcan opponent grapples with fallout from a campaign fraud investigation. Luria, a first-time Democratic candidate, leads Rep. Scott Taylor 51% to 43% among 404 likely voters the internal Democratic poll conducted by Garin-Hart-Yang…
Celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach may have been hacked by agents of Qatar in response to his campaigning against the Gulf kingdom, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The possible hacking was uncovered after Republican Jewish megadonor Elliott Broidy sued Qatar and accused the country of hacking his email and disseminating embarrassing information to journalists as retaliation for Broidy’s…
(JTA) — A Wisconsin man was charged with mailing threats to a Jewish Community Center in the state. A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Chadwick Grubbs, 33, for mailing threats on three different days in May to the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. Grubbs already is…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has decided to bring some 1,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura who have children living in Israel to the country. There are some 8,000 Falash Mura in Ethiopia awaiting permission to immigrate to Israel, most of whom have some family members in Israel. The Falash Mura claim…
(JTA) — The United States will cut the number of refugees that it will accept for 2019, to the lowest level set since the Refugee Act became law in 1980. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that up to 30,000 refugees will be resettled in the United States in 2019 under the new…
(JTA) — A homemade explosive device was found affixed to a headstone in a Jewish cemetery in New Jersey. The device was discovered on Sunday at the B’nai Abraham Cemetery during the Jewish Federation Cemetery Visiting Day, a public event organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest. The cemetery was evacuated following the discovery of…
(JTA)– Soon-Yi Previn, the wife of filmmaker Woody Allen, defended her husband of 25 years against charges that he sexually abused his adopted daughter when she was 7. “What’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust,” Previn, 47, told New York magazine in an interview published in the Sept. 17 issue and posted on…
(JTA) — A married couple from New York were killed when their small plane crashed near Boston. Dr. Michael Graver, 65, and his wife Jodi Cohen, 52, of Long Island, were killed on Saturday morning when the plane crashed into the woods in Woburn, Massachusetts. The plane crashed about seven miles from the airport and…
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