Donald Trump was speaking in an area with one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, but in his October 13 speech, he sought to rebut claims of sexual misconduct by alluding to a malevolent global conspiracy — a vintage anti-Semitic trope. He referred repeatedly to a Clinton-organized conspiracy involving bankers and the…
Uneasy from the start with Donald Trump as their party’s presidential candidate, Republican Jewish activists are fuming and fretting in the wake of revelations about Trump’s lewd character and alleged sexual harassment. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which endorsed Trump immediately after he secured the party’s nomination, has not withdrawn its official support. But behind closed…
One of the hit men who killed Jewish law professor Dan Markel says that Markel’s ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, scoped him and his partner out the day before the murder. The allegation came in an October 4 police interview, released this week by the Tallahassee Democrat. The hit man, Luis Rivera, says that Sigfredo Garcia, his…
A website with the deceptively innocuous name of “Jews in Modern Society” lists the names, photos and professions of almost 400 Jews from academia, social-activism, the financial world and left-wing politics. It’s basically a hit list for neo-Nazis or white supremacists. The mission statement of the site complains that “Jews have had over 100 years…
After a Boulder, Colorado high school student took his own life, police found a neo-Nazi chat group that involved him and more than a dozen other students. “You can hang Jews on trees, shoot them right in the knees. Gas as many as you please,” wrote one commenter on the Facebook conversation, titled “4th Reich…
As Jews prayed this weekend to be sealed into the Book of Life, vandals in a upstate New York town of Warwick disrespected their dead. Police in the town on October 9 alerted officials at nearby Temple Beth Shalom that the front of their cemetery had been defaced with a spray-painted swastika and Nazi slogans…
Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin announced a Jewish running mate last weekend: Mindy Finn. Finn is a veteran GOP strategist who runs a feminist non-profit. She and McMullin, a former CIA agent, see their independent candidacy as a conservative alternative to Donald Trump. With their religious makeup — a Mormon and a Jew — and…
It’s like the beginning of a Jewish joke: A young boy obsessed with the statistics in “The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract,” and with creating rosters on the old Apple II computer game MicroLeague Baseball, grows up to become the general manager of not one but two major league baseball teams. And of course they…
In Cambridge, Massachusetts—home to prestigious schools like Harvard and M.I.T.—the Swedish Academy’s announcement of Nobel Prize winners usually brings happy news to several professors. The streak holds this month, as Harvard economist Oliver Hart scored a Nobel for his works on contracts. Sharing the Prize in Economics with his MIT colleague, Bengt Holmstrom, the Jewish…
As Jews in New York today got ready to start their Yom Kippur fast at sundown, the city offered them one more opportunity to chow down — and also to register to vote. As part of the “Nosh the Vote” program, a dozen food trucks and street carts across the five boroughs today distributed voter…
In its first-ever political endorsement, the New York Jewish Week backed Hillary Clinton in an editorial posted hours before the start of the Yom Kippur holiday. The paper, which has a print distribution of 55,000 and is one of the largest Jewish newspapers in the country, argues in the unsigned editorial that Donald Trump is…
אין קלאַס זענען די סטודענטן אָפֿט געווען אױף פֿאַרשידענע ניװאָען אָבער זי האָט זיך אָפּגעגעבן מיט יעדן באַזונדער.
