Commander Marc Buslik was greeted with blank stares as he stood before a group of rank-and-file Chicago police officers, hoping to explain why the federal government was investigating them for unconstitutional policing. “In October of 2014,” he noted bluntly, “Officer Van Dyke decided to pump 16 bullets into Lacquan McDonald.” His shoulders slumped and his…
(JTA) — If there’s one story that sums up the changes afoot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a once heavily Jewish neighborhood, it’s the saga surrounding the Anshei Meseritz synagogue. The Orthodox shul at 415 E. Sixth St. is a relic of a time when “tenement” synagogues — so named for the narrow…
(JTA) — Never Trump? Always Trump? Never-doesn’t-last-forever-Trump? Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, presents a quandary for Jewish conservatives. He said in December that he doesn’t want Jewish Republican money, and that he would be “neutral” when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians. He walked the “neutrality” back in his speech in March to…
A politically connected Orthodox rabbi has been accused in a federal lawsuit of molesting a student at his Jewish boarding school in New Haven, Connecticut. In a civil complaint filed in federal court in Connecticut on May 3, Eliyahu Mirlis, a former student at Yeshiva of New Haven, accused Rabbi Daniel Greer, 75, the school’s…
America’s biggest Jewish political donor is throwing his support behind Donald Trump. Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino mogul and GOP kingmaker who has been on the fence throughout the rocky 2016 Republican primary, has finally made his mind up. But he doesn’t sound very enthusiastic about it. “I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican. He’s…
Bill de Blasio’s persistent courting of New York City’s Orthodox community has reached a crossroads two years into his mayoral administration. The mayor has lavished favors on the Orthodox, restoring key political goodies that his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, eliminated, and creating major new programs with the Orthodox in mind. Yet for all those gestures, it’s…
Rarely if ever has an election in Britain ever been conducted during such a loud public debate about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. The irony of this election falling on Holocaust Day has not been lost on the Jewish population of the UK. The biggest ticket race is that for London mayor between Sadiq Khan…
(JTA) — If there were an election tomorrow, only 8.5 percent of British Jews say they would vote for the Labour Party — a sharp decline since last year’s election, when 18 percent of Jews voted Labour. A poll by London’s Jewish Chronicle found that 38.5 percent of Jews give the party the worst possible…
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke told his radio audience Wednesday that Jewish opposition to Donald Trump shows that Jews are “the real problem” and the “reason why America is not great.” The comments, first noted by the website Right Wing Watch, came the day after the New York businessman all but secured the…
Donald Trump’s impending Republican nomination will spur American Jews to back Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in greater numbers, say several pundits and pols. Trump’s nomination will pull centrist Jews in the Democrats’ direction, said Greg Rosenbaum, chair of the National Jewish Democratic Council, a political lobbying organization. “We think it would be very…
(JTA) — The story is an all-too-familiar horror tale: An adult in a position of power – in this case a Hasidic school principal – is accused of sexually abusing a child in his care. But one thing makes this episode very different: The encounter was captured on a hidden camera and posted online this week…
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