Neo-Nazis have developed a way to surreptitiously mark the presence of Jews on social media in order to alert others to their identity, coordinated attacks, anti-Semitic vitriol, threats and images of concentration camps and Hitler. Known as the “echo,” the symbol consists of three parenthesis around a Jewish person’s name, for example, (((Efrem))). According to…
TZEELIM VALLEY, Israel – The disposable paper face masks offer little protection from the clouds of dust that fill the cliffside cave where Israeli archaeologists are wrapping up the largest excavation in the Judean desert of the past half-century. Clipped into safety harnesses, volunteers stand at the cave opening, 250 meters (820 feet) above a…
The latest collision between the religious laws that govern Hasidic Jewish life and the laws of the City of New York is happening in an unlikely place: A public swimming pool in Brooklyn. Following a string of stories in local media last week, the New York Times editorial page inveighed on Wednesday against a decision…
For six years, the Jews of the Hamptons have gone head-to-head over a piece of wire they can barely see. The Orthodox finally won the right to erect the eruv, a wire that allows Orthodox Jews to travel on the Sabbath because they consider it as an extension of the home, in the tony towns…
In March, the United Nations compiled a “black list” of Israeli companies doing business in the West Bank. In some pro-Israel circles, it appeared part of a larger trend: the UN singling out Israel for condemnation. But on May 31, Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and the World Jewish Congress hosted what they…
The clock is ticking toward midnight, and dimming hopes now seem to rest with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a bill that would enable thousands of child sex abuse victims to seek justice from their abusers. Victim advocates had considered twin bills introduced this year to be their best chance yet to extend the…
In July of 2014, a young Jewish law professor named Dan Markel was pulling into the driveway of his brick house on Trescott Drive in Tallahassee, Florida, when someone pointed a gun through the window of his Honda Accord and shot him in the head. Markel died within hours, leaving behind two young sons, a…
Boycott Trump? Mock Trump? Trump, the musical? Jewish liberals are ready to sow a summer of Donald Trump discontent in ways that aim both to bludgeon and entertain. Bend the Arc, an advocacy group, is convening its first national conference here next week aimed in part at finding a strategy to keep the billionaire real…
The deadline for resolving the crisis over the new egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall in Jerusalem has been extended indefinitely, after an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to draft a solution acceptable to the opposing sides within the 60 days he was allotted. Meanwhile, leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements…
A prominent Turkish-Jewish businessman and politician, Cefi Kamhi is chairman of an Istanbul-based consulting agency and television distribution company. He heads three councils for Turkey’s foreign economic relations board, and represents his home country in the European Jewish Parliament. His wife is Muslim. Yet after several assassination attempts, Kamhi is under 24-hour police protection to…
Florida police have arrested a man suspected of the murder of Dan Markel, a Jewish law professor who was shot in his Tallahassee driveway in 2014. Authorities arrested Sigfredo Garcia, 34, at a Miami-area gas station on May 25, and charged him with first-degree murder. The Tallahassee Democrat reported May 26 that Markel’s death is…
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