(JTA) — Ashkenazi Jewish women should be screened for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes linked to breast cancer. That’s the recommendation by a U.S. task force announced in an editorial this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. One in 40 Ashkenazi Jews have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, compared with one in…
Senator Bernie Sanders was a natural while playing softball at Iowa’s Field of Dreams on Tuesday. The Democratic presidential candidate tends to flex his athletic skills on the basketball court, but this week he played a good game of softball with his political colleagues at the site where the famous baseball movie was filmed. He…
After President Trump invoked an anti-Semitic trope by calling Jews who vote for Democrats “disloyal,” Jews began storming Twitter with the hashtag #DisloyalToTrump. “Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Trump’s…
Senator Bernie Sanders, the most high-profile Jewish figure running for the Democratic presidential nomination, offered a retort to President Trump on Tuesday night, a few hours after the president said that Jews who vote Democratic were either uninformed or show “great disloyalty.” “I am a proud Jewish person, and I have no concerns about voting…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Fake Twitter accounts impersonating Jews and promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have proliferated following a post on the online messaging forum 4chan. The author of the post urges readers to “create a massive movement of fake Jewish profiles on Facebook, Twitter etc.” The goal, according to the post, is to avoid censorship…
(JTA) — The body of a New York rabbi was found a day after he jumped into an upstate lake to save one of his children from drowning. The child was wearing a life jacket and was returned safely to the rented pontoon boat on Greenwood Lake in Orange County on Sunday afternoon. But Rabbi…
President Trump said Tuesday that American Jews who vote for the Democratic Party may be showing “great disloyalty.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office while meeting with the President of Romania, Trump was asked about his criticisms of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who were barred from entering Israel last week due to…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Uruguayan soccer player apologized after sparking outrage for wishing himself a happy birthday with a photo from Auschwitz. Rodrigo Zalazar decorated a snap of himself outside the Nazi concentration camp with celebratory emojis and posted it to his Instagram. The insensitive image was taken on August 12, when Zalazar…
After a video surfaced of California students performing a Nazi salute and cheer, the school system condemned the incident, yet refused to confirm how its students were disciplined, the Washington Post reported. On Monday, The Daily Beast published a video of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove in which…
A mere two days before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead by suicide he signed a will, according to documents from the Court of the Virgin Islands, the New York Times reported. Epstein’s dead body was discovered in his Metropolitan Correctional Center cell on August 10th amid a lawsuit accusing him of running a sex-trafficking ring…
By the middle of the frenetic summer of 2016, the alt-right had become a term on everyone’s lips. The Forward published a list of must-know terms and symbols used by the alt-right for its cultural warfare on liberal ideals and racial diversity. At the bottom of that list: Pepe the Frog, an uncannily part-human-part-frog cartoon…
אין זײַנע „פֿאָרווערטס“־אַרטיקלען האָט ער קריטיקירט זייער צוגאַנג צום חורבן און צו ייִדישקײט.
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