Should “Lincoln” have two L’s in Hebrew? Some of the Jewish world’s top scholars convened at a Jerusalem conference to discuss Abraham Lincoln — and that was one of the topics of conversation at the event. During the conversation, held to mark the publication of a Hebrew translation of Jonathan Sarna’s “Lincoln and the Jews”…
Police arrested a Brooklyn man for allegedly swiping a moneybox from a synagogue coffee room in Boro Park, Hamodia reported. Surveillance cameras at the synagogue of the Belz Hasidic sect caught a man on Sunday sneaking into a room where coffee is available for community members, and taking cash from the box where drinkers leave…
A new tape in which Keith Ellison implies that Israel controls America’s policy toward the Middle East has cost the Minnesota congressman support of the Anti-Defamation League, but did not change the position of his top political supporter, Senator Chuck Schumer. In the recording, which only 35 seconds of which were published, the Minneapolis congressman,…
The grave of Sofiya Romm, a doctor who immigrated to the United States from Moscow, is hard to find in Ahavath Achim Anshe Sfard, the local Jewish cemetery here. On a recent afternoon in November, only Romm’s first name was visible. The rest of the inscription was under a pile of brown autumn leaves. You…
Hillary Clinton campaign aides angrily accused their counterparts from Donald Trump’s team of fanning racism and using anti-Semitic “dog whistles” to win the presidential election. In a remarkable confrontation at Harvard University, the architects of Clinton’s losing campaign traded bitter barbs with Team Trump, the Washington Post reported. Joel Benenson, one of Clinton’s to strategist,…
The women’s section of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, looked a bit like a rugby pitch the morning of December 1 as devout women collapsed into a scrum of long skirts, prayer shawls and repeated shrieks of “Call the police, now!” Some of the women, who call themselves “Women of the Wall”…
We often hear stories about how hard life was for Jews in Russia back in the day. Still, after they passed away, even poor Jews in the Russian Empire got to have gravestones. If you travel around Ukraine and Poland these days, you’ll stumble upon Jewish cemeteries in almost every village where Jews used to…
Ivanka Trump may advocate for action on climate change in her new role as first daughter, Politico reported today, citing a “source close to her.” Trump, who is Jewish, is considering ways to speak out on climate change, according to Politico. That could put her in conflict with her father, the president-elect, who has consistently…
The family of Donald Trump’s new nominee for Secretary of the Treasury was among the lucky few that walked away from Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme with millions in alleged profits. Stephen Mnuchin and his brother inherited their mother’s account in Madoff’s investment fund in 2005, three years before the scheme imploded, Bloomberg reported in May….
Could a Jewish New York real estate guy with precisely zero foreign policy experience break the Mideast peace logjam? If his father in law is called Donald Trump, Israeli officials say: “why not?” A top Israeli diplomat said Jared Kushner would be a welcome partner if he becomes a peace mediator. “We welcome him,” Deputy…
Shimon Sasson, 84, of Tel Aviv, was 15 when the riots broke out in the port city of Aden. It happened just after November 29, 1947, the date on which the United Nations approved the partition plan for Palestine, paving the way for the founding of the State of Israel. “I heard the report on…
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