The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has accused Amazon’s Nazi revenge series “Hunters” of recklessly inventing a Holocaust atrocity. The museum’s objection came in response to a central sequence involving a grisly game of chess. In the first episode, two members of the central 1970s Nazi-hunting crew —mastermind Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) and his protégé Jonah (Logan…
Different American Jewish organizations are turning to Twitter to criticize presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for declining to attend AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference. Sanders announced Sunday that he would skip the conference, saying he is “concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights.”…
Under the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up its policy of deporting immigrant criminals upon the completion of their prison sentences. But the agency has made an exception for an Israeli rabbi who was convicted of racketeering and money laundering conspiracy, Hamodia reported Saturday night. Rabbi Mordechai Samet, a resident of the…
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s Chicago campaign office was vandalized with the words “racist,” sexist,” “GOP” and “oligarch” on Sunday, an act that Bloomberg’s campaign manager blamed on rival Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “willingness to condone and promote Trump-like rhetoric.” Several Bloomberg campaign offices around the country have been defaced in the last month,…
In October of 2017, Alyssa Milano used the #MeToo hashtag, coined by Tarana Burke in 2006, to respond to sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Two years after the hashtag went viral and 30 years after the first allegation of sexual assault against him, Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of criminal sexual act in…
דערוויסט זיך פֿאַר וואָס איינער פֿון די ענטפֿערס איז „לא תרצח‟ — זאָלסט נישט הרגענען.
Dear Editor, In a recent opinion piece in this paper, an anonymous writer complained that American Jewish schools are “preaching dual loyalty to Israel.” This was quickly followed up by a response whose author proudly waved the red, white and blue. While they both made important points in their own way, they each equally missed…
(JTA) — Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday on two counts of rape and sexual assault, but was acquitted on more serious charges. A New York State Supreme Court jury found Weinstein, 67, guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree. He was acquitted…
די אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע שילדערט די ייִדישע געזעלשאַפֿט אין טעלז פֿאַרן חורבן און ווי דער מחבר האָט געקעמפֿט אין דער סאָוועטישער אַרמיי.
When Aaref Watad, a Syrian photographer, arrived at the scene of a recent Russian air force attack in western Aleppo, he found a car completely pierced by shrapnel and nine corpses. Four of them were children. The bodies belonged to a family that had been fleeing Aleppo for the Turkish border along with thousands of…
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