(JTA) — A school district in Pennsylvania is investigating social media posts from students on a senior class trip that mocked exhibits at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The senior class from the Forest Hills School District visited the museum in Washington D.C. last Wednesday as part of its senior class trip. Senior class president Gabe…
A Pittsburgh man is defending the Steelers flag that he painted with a swastika in protest of the current wave of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, WPXI reported. The news team was first contacted about the flag by neighbors too uncomfortable and scared to confront the man who created it. The man claims…
(JTA) — Pennsylvania State University has begun providing a kosher food option for campus dining on a one-year trial basis. Penn State Senior Aaron Goldberg of Philadelphia last year approached Lisa Wandel, director of residential dining, about the need for a kosher dining option, bringing 10 pages of requests from other students and ideas about how…
Google Trends just released “American’s Most Misspelled Words” of 2017, and it’s a sight to behold. While some states can be forgiven for struggling with certain words (I get it, West Virginia and Connecticut, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is confusing), some of these mistakes are just plain embarrassing. But Leonard Cohen may be surprised to see ‘Hallelujah’ as…
No race is too small for liberal billionaire George Soros. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Soros contributed $1.45 million to a candidate in a Democratic primary race for Philadelphia’s next district attorney. The donation went for a PAC supporting civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner for the position. It puts Krasner and his backers in a…
On November 9, we woke up in a Red State. Could it really be? Before school I broke the news to my 12-year-old daughter, who was completely distraught. “If anyone gives you a hard time,” I offered, “let your teachers know.” “What if my teachers voted for Trump?” she asked, in tears as I ushered…
In the wake of the November election, the discussion of “fake news” has taken an outsized role in our political discourse, with both the political Left and Right misusing and abusing the term. There is one instance of “fake news” hysteria that I think is particularly telling, but before we get to that, a little…
A Jewish family had to flee their hometown in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, after conservative news outlets suggested they were to blame for shutting down their local school’s production of “A Christmas Carol.” The family, which said it only asked that their child be excused from performing in the play, got spooked after the news broke…
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