An independent Jewish organization at the University of Pennsylvania has stopped offering students a stipend to participate in its Maimonides program, after parents objected to the practice. Since 2004, Meor has offered a $400 stipend for students to participate in its Maimonides Leaders Fellowship program. This year, Meor will no longer offer the stipend after…
A kosher butcher shop in Philadelphia was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti. Crude swastikas were painted on the butcher shop, Simon’s Glatt Kosher meats, between the evening of Sept. 10 and the next morning, the Jewish Exponent reported. The butcher store has been at its location for 20 years. A nearby synagogue was similarly vandalized in…
A $6 million pledge from Raymond Perelman is breathing new life into plans for a new Center for Jewish Life at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Drexel initiated the project in 2011 under the direction of its president, John Fry, but until this week’s announcement only a small portion of the funds had been raised, the…
Among the 12 organizations that signed on to the statement were StandWithUs, the Zionist Organization of America and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
A Philadelphia man who served as his synagogue’s informal historian was found beaten to death in his home. The body of Lee Stanley, 65, a longtime member of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, was found on Friday, CBS Philly reported. Homicide detectives are investigating. Rabbi Jill Maderer of Rodeph Shalom told the radio station that Stanley’s father,…
A former Nazi concentration camp guard awaiting extradition to Germany was granted bail on Monday, set at $100,000, after his serious medical condition worsened while in jail, according to court documents. The decision comes days before a federal judge was to decide whether Johann Breyer, 89, would be extradited to Germany. Lawyers for Breyer, who…
An 89-year-old man wanted in Germany for working as a concentration camp guard during World War Two said in court filings on Friday that he should not be deported because his service in the Waffen SS was involuntary. “What can be said with certainty is that Mr. Breyer is not a war criminal,” lawyers for…
A former Nazi concentration camp guard awaiting extradition to Germany has been denied bail by a U.S. judge in Philadelphia. Lawyers for Johann Breyer, 89, had sought his release before an Aug. 21 extradition hearing, arguing in court papers he suffered from dementia and other ailments, and continued confinement could speed his deterioration and make…
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