Justin Trudeau said Canada’s government would not tolerate antisemitism after a violent pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal where protesters burned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy.
The Canadian prime minister was one of...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published November 24, 2024
The Emirati Interior Ministry announced Sunday night that it had arrested "the three perpetrators involved in the murder of Zvi Kogan, a Moldovan national according to his identification documents at the time of entry into the UAE, where he lived as a...
In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, and a gladiator barracks known as the Caserma dei...
Ursula Haverbeck, known as the "Nazi Grandma" and one of Germany’s most infamous Holocaust deniers, claimed Auschwitz was just a work camp, not a death camp, and that nobody had been gassed to death there. She challenged a German court to prove that...
Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be his attorney general, said last year that campus protesters who express support for Hamas should face FBI questioning.
Trump named Bondi, who served as Florida attorney general from 2011...
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant based on allegations that they starved Palestinian civilians in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas.
The...
The new banners hanging outside a public building in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, channeled the college town’s history of progressive activism.
One depicted a member of the Chapel Hill Nine, Black activists whose 1960 sit-in at a local lunch counter...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 20, 2024
Arthur Frommer, whose empire of travel guidebooks led one interviewer to call him the “quintessential wandering Jew,” died Nov. 18 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 95.
Starting in 1957 with the bestselling “Europe on 5...
A number of progressive Jewish groups are backing an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block arms sales to Israel.
The effort, a collection of several resolutions, is unlikely to pass in the closely divided Senate but could split Democratic lawmakers.
The...
(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire financier Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, as commerce secretary.
Trump announced the appointment on Tuesday, after several Trump associates including Lutnick had...
The head of Jewish Federations of North America is doubling down on nonpartisanship after one of his executives upset colleagues last week by signaling excitement about Jewish settlement in Gaza.
The remark by Karen Paikin Barall, JFNA’s vice president...
Sam Salz’s first taste of NCAA Division I football came during a kickoff — known in football as a “special teams” play.
For most football players, kickoffs are in fact routine. But if anything about the play was special, it was Salz’s presence...
