Rabbi Moshe Sebbag is no stranger to the world of politics. As chief rabbi of France’s historic and prestigious Grande Synagogue de Paris, the Israeli-born cleric is invited regularly to political functions, including events with senior ministers. But for all this, Sebbag appeared shaken at the furor that followed his embrace of the bans on…
In a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday, Taj Patterson recounted the horrific beating he says he received in December 2013 at the hands of a gang of 15 to 20 Orthodox Jewish men. “They threw me to the ground, dragged me on my knees, told me to ‘stay on the ground you f—king f——t,’” Patterson said, according…
As Donald Trump traveled to Mexico Wednesday to meet with the nation’s president, the country’s small Jewish community is keeping a wary eye on the U.S. presidential hopeful. “We are looking forward to seeing what results his visit will have,” said Marcos Metta, president of the Alianza de Monte Sinai, a Mexico City Jewish organization,…
The semi-serious data-driven magazine Improbable Research has released a study empirically assessing (with tongue firmly in cheek) just how famous Donald Trump is. The verdict? He’s bigger than Jesus. In “Measuring Fame Quantitatively V: Who’s the Most Famous of Them All (Part 2),” Dr. Eric Schulman, an astrophysicist and science humorist, used Google searches and…
Life imitates art, again. “Orange is the New Black” fans might remember the episode in which a handful of prisoners pretended to be Jewish so they could eat the more edible kosher meals. Well, that’s actually happening right now in Glenochil Prison, a detention center in the county of Clackmannanshire, Scotland. More than 100 inmates…
Roseanne Barr, the Jewish actress with an outsized Twitter personality who called Hillary Clinton an anti-Semite and her aide Huma Abedin a “filthy nazi whore,” lectured on Tuesday night in a prominent San Francisco synagogue about Judaism, Israel and the critics who have been calling her a racist. “They call me a racist and a…
The alt-right has become an internet phenomenon. As a white supremacist movement, it seems to have a fairly large following among millennials. Yet the internet — the cradle of 21st century white supremacy — has also become a staging ground for a schism within the alt-right: to become mainstream or stay staunchly bigoted against all…
Buzzfeed journalist Joseph Bernstein, whose father was a celebrated United States Justice Department Nazi hunter, is being trolled online for articles he has been writing about the white nationalist movement known as the alt-right. After a recent article about Sam Hyde, a comedian with ties to the alt-right and a show on Comedy Central’s Adult…
Two-and-a-half years after a late-night gang beating that left him partially blinded, Brooklyn man Taj Patterson is preparing to face one of his alleged assailants in court. Mayer Herskovic, a 24-year-old Hasidic man, faces felony charges connected to the Williamsburg, Brooklyn beating in a trial that began August 29 in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Patterson is…
The New York City Council is moving to consider a resolution condemning boycotts of Israel next week. The council’s Committee on Contracts is scheduled to consider a resolution next Thursday, Politico reported, that would condemn “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people…
The alt-right may bill itself as something new, but its roots are in the white supremacist politicians of the late 20th century. The movement embraces much of the racism and xenophobia of this elder generation, generating racist cartoons, hosting discussions of “the Jewish question,” and engaging in a passionate online discussion about the scientific justification…
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