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Extremist activity is growing in the pandemic. How worried should Jews be?
On the last day of Passover last year, a young nursing student went into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and shot four people, killing 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye. The accused murderer’s manifesto was filled with anti-Semitic sentiments, but it also contained another element: The shooter’s wish that his actions would lead the government to start confiscating…
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Antone Melton-Meaux, Ilhan Omar’s challenger, calls her a ‘divider’
Early in her brief tenure as a member of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota received some advice on how not to sound like an anti-Semite. Local Jewish leaders met with the Democrat to provide a crash course in what’s so offensive about suggesting that for Jews “it’s all about the Benjamins” or that Jewish-American…
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Criticizing Cuomo, de Blasio, judge loosens COVID restrictions on religious gatherings
A federal judge in Syracuse issued a preliminary injunction Friday preventing New York officials from enforcing different coronavirus restrictions for houses of worship than for secular nonessential businesses. Senior U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe wrote that Governor Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Letitia James and Mayor Bill de Blasio had made decisions that led to…
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Lucille Weiss, 93, Beloved Matriarch With Zest For Life
BOSTON (JTA) — Lucille Weiss had a zest for life, traversing continents and cultivating a home teeming with family and friends — and 17 species of pests, including a skunk and a parrot. At the age of 80, she set out to visit a roost of butterflies in central Mexico. The steep uphill journey required…
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Sidney Forman, 95, Lived Out A Dream With Performance Of Musical Comedy He Wrote In The 1950s
BOSTON (JTA) – Sidney Forman performed before many audiences over the course of his life. He sang in barbershop quartets, in synagogue choirs and for the ordination of a cardinal. At Boston’s Hatch Shell concert venue, he sang for the legendary Boston Pops maestro Arthur Fiedler. But a year ago, when Forman packed the house…
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Facebook failing to contain content from far-right ‘Boogaloo’ movement, experts say
Facebook is failing to contain content from a growing right-wing extremist group called the “boogaloo” movement, experts say. Researchers from Avaaz, a not-for-profit that works to combat disinformation, found more than 20 Facebook pages calling for armed violence and promoting conspiracy theories about the George Floyd protests by self-identified “Boogaloo Boys,” members of an anti-government…
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Young Hasidic Jews mobilized their community for Black Lives Matter. Now they’re organizing online.
For Miriam Levy-Haim, the most exciting part of the march was watching the crowd grow. She’d expected to gather between 30 and 50 members of her Crown Heights Chabad community to march against police violence on a Sunday afternoon in early June. In fact, hundreds of parents, teenagers and young children showed up bearing signs,…
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Claims Conference executive who led during fraud scandal to serve as new chairman
Gideon Taylor, the former executive director of the Claims Conference who was one of the leaders under which employees perpetrated an elaborate fraud, will be the new chairman of the organization on June 30 barring extenuating circumstances, a spokeswoman said. Taylor is the sole nominee to replace Julius Berman, who served in the role for…
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Lenora Garfinkel, 89, Noted Orthodox Architect Who Lost A Son And Grandson To COVID-19
(JTA) — In the world of Orthodox Judaism, men may run the synagogues — but Lenora Garfinkel built them. Garfinkel was one of the first women to study architecture at the prestigious Cooper Union College in New York and went on to build Jewish community buildings across the New York metropolitan area over the course…
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A top pro-Israel congressman lost his primary. Was it a fluke or a harbinger?
Rep. Eliot Engel, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and one of the top congressional allies of the Israeli government, is expected to lose his primary. With more than 33,000 in-person votes cast in New York’s 16th District, containing parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman was beating Engel…
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There’s a memorial in Charlotte to Confederate Judah Benjamin, and the city’s Jews want it gone
A national push to dismantle memorials that glorify racism might help the Jewish community of Charlotte, N.C. achieve a long-sought goal: the permanent removal of a monument to Judah Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish figure in the Confederate government. Erected in 1948 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the memorial to Benjamin is a…
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