(JTA) — A German daycare center named after Anne Frank is changing its name, alleging that children have a hard time understanding the message behind the story of the world famous Jewish diarist murdered in the Holocaust.
The daycare is located in...
Jewish News Syndicate
• Published November 5, 2023
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is drawing harsh criticism from fellow Democrats of Congress after she wrote that the chant, “From the river to the sea,” which is widely viewed as an antisemitic call for genocide against Jews, is not hateful.
“‘From...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As Joe Biden was speaking at a political fundraiser in Minneapolis this week, a rabbi and activist with an anti-Zionist Jewish group stood up and shouted, “Mr. President, if you care about Jewish people, as a rabbi, I need you to...
(JTA) — A standout at perennial powerhouse Duke. An Israeli WNBA prospect with a twin sister in the Israeli Defense Forces. A member of the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Those are just a few of the compelling stories from the best...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 3, 2023
(JTA) — A scruffy, bearded Jewish man in his mid-60s — distressed, disheveled but wickedly self-satisfied — is invited to spend the night at the Manhattan apartment of an old friend and benefactor. Put up in the bedroom of the man’s college-age...
(JTA) – Authorities arrested a man wielding a pellet gun in the parking lot of the Detroit Jewish Federation headquarters Thursday morning, in an incident that caused employees to go into lockdown for part of the day.
In a statement, the federation...
(JTA) — A prominent white supremacist has been sentenced to 30 days in jail in Florida for distributing antisemitic flyers — though the content of the material did not factor into his penalty.
Jon Minadeo II, the founder of the Goyim Defense League,...
(JTA) — Ady Barkan, an Israeli-American lawyer and one of the country’s most visible progressive activists for single-payer health care, died Wednesday at a hospital in Santa Barbara, California. He was 39. The cause was ALS, commonly known as Lou...
(JTA) — FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that antisemitism in the United States has reached “historic levels” in the wake of Israel’s war with Hamas and cautioned that the threat was high.
Hamas’ attacks could “serve as an inspiration...
(JTA) — Hamas has opened the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to some wounded people and foreign citizens as its war with Israel has escalated.
It was the first of a series of planned openings of the crossing during the war, which has killed more...
(JTA) — It was on the fourth day of the war between Israel and Hamas, Asher Moskowitz recalled, that he saw the baby among the corpses at Camp Shura.
Moskowitz had come to Shura, a military base near the central Israeli city of Ramle, as a volunteer...
(New York Jewish Week) — Police have taken a suspect into custody over threats to kill Jewish students at Cornell University over the weekend, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said Tuesday as her office announced a series of measures to combat antisemitism...
