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…
WASHINGTON – Jewish Republicans have been trying to avoid this moment ever since the tumultuous primary campaign kicked off. But after Indiana voters dealt a deathblow Tuesday night to Ted Cruz, the question is inescapable for Jewish backers of the GOP: Can they rally behind Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee? The answer for many…
The Jewish community in Kaifeng, China, is facing a government “crackdown,” according to Jewish activists. “It is time to break the silence,” said Anson Laytner, former president of the Sino-Judaic Institute, which has been working in China since the 1980s. “Their very survival as Jews is at stake.” Government police have shut down the only…
Police are looking into a video circulating widely among Orthodox social media users that shows a teacher at an Orthodox school kissing a young male student, the Journal News reported. The video, which emerged from Orthodox groups on the social networking service WhatsApp on Sunday before being posted by various advocates on Facebook, appears to…
The Israeli government says that Haredi parents and schools — rather than the government itself — are to blame for denying secular education to ultra-Orthodox youth in Israel. That was the government’s response to a lawsuit filed by 53 ex-Orthodox individuals against the Ministry of Education for failing to teach them basic secular subjects like…
WASHINGTON – While “Israel apartheid week” events on campus and student government boycott resolutions have been grabbing the attention of pro-Israel organizations, a potentially more consequential battle over pressuring Israel has been raging in corporate boardrooms and shareholder meetings. The target audience for these efforts: investors concerned about the social and moral aspects of their…
A controversial new organization calling itself If Not Now is rapidly gaining attention, members and steam. But critics say that its mostly millennial members aren’t accomplishing anything substantive with its current approach. The group’s profile recently climbed when its founder, Simone Zimmerman, was very publicly fired by United States presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who had…
