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Prominent Russian Jews On List Of U.S. Treasury Targets
A Treasury Department report submitted to Congress lists 210 Russian government officials and billionaires close to the government who may be subject to U.S. sanctions. The list, commonly referred to as the “Putin list,” is required by Congress as part of legislation meant to penalize Russia for its interference in the 2016 elections and for…
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Super Bowl Tourists Will See Holocaust Photo Exhibit At Minneapolis Airport
(JTA) — If you’re going to Minneapolis to see the Super Bowl, you’ll also be viewing photos of Holocaust survivors at the airport. That’s the idea behind “Transfer of Memory,” a traveling exhibit of photos of Holocaust survivors, mostly from the Twin Cities, that is being shown at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. The exhibit has been…
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Italian Soccer Team Fined For Taunting Rivals With Anne Frank Stickers
(JTA) — A soccer team in Rome that plastered a stadium with stickers showing Anne Frank wearing the uniform of a rival city club has been fined. The Lazio FC team will pay a fine of $61,000, but will not have to play two games without fans as requested by the Italian football federation prosecutor….
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French Lawmakers Banned From Wearing Religious Symbols In Parliament
French lawmakers have been banned from wearing religious symbols in parliament under a proposal submitted by a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party. On Wednesday, the National Assembly’s administrative office adopted the proposal of En Marche’s François de Rugy, which states that in an effort to “maintain an atmosphere of neutrality” in the parliament does…
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Mike Pence’s Faith Drives His Support For Israel. Does It Drive Mideast Policy?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Mike Pence moved to Washington earlier this year, he and his wife took with them a framed phrase they had for years hung over their fireplace in their Indiana home, and then over the fireplace in the governor’s mansion in that state. Now it hangs over the mantle at the vice…
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Americans Are Likelier Than Europeans To Defend Jews, Experts Say. But Why?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s better here: That was the message of a panel of experts considering the rise of the extreme right and of anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe. That was the good news at Monday’s forum, sponsored by Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. The less good news was that no one…
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She Confronts Trump’s Immigration Advisers With Their Own Immigrant Histories
NEW YORK (JTA) — During a combative news conference in early August, White House adviser Stephen Miller told reporters that the United States should prioritize immigrants who speak English. “Does the applicant speak English?” Miller asked, describing a bill to reduce the overall number of immigrants and reform immigration requirements. “Can they support themselves and…
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Hundreds Of Thousands Protest Trump At Women’s Marches
Hundreds of thousands of women and their male supporters turned out on Saturday for the second Women’s March, a nationwide series of protests against U.S. President Donald Trump marking the end of his tumultuous first year in office. The coordinated rallies in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and about 250 other cities featured speakers…
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Austrian Jews To Boycott Holocaust Ceremony If Far-Right Ministers Attend
A Jewish leader in Austria said community officials would not attend the nation’s official Holocaust commemoration ceremony if lawmakers from the far-right Freedom Party are present. “If there will be ministers there for the Freedom Party, and I’m sure there will be, I will not be able to shake their hands, so the Jewish community…
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Klan Killer Of ‘Mississippi Burning’ Civil Rights Martyrs Dies In Prison
Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and Ku Klux Klansman convicted and sent to prison more than 40 years after he plotted the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists in the “Mississippi Burning” case, died on Thursday night at the age of 92, Mississippi correction officials said. Killen, who would have turned 93 on Jan….
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When Jews Came From ‘Shithole’ Countries
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jews were “undesirable.” They were “of low physical and mental standards.” They were “filthy.” They were “often dangerous in their habits.” They were “un-American.” So read a report submitted to the House Committee on Immigration in 1924, written by the director of the United Stated Consular Service and approved by the…
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