In LA, synagogues offer their parking lots to the homeless
A homeless woman is seen sleeping on the street of Skid Row during the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, May 16, 2020. (Apu Gomes/AFP) LOS ANGELES — Art had been living with his mother for more than...
View ArticleADL grapples, rumbles with Facebook
NEW YORK (JTA) — It was when Mark Zuckerberg said he would allow Holocaust denial on his platform that the Anti-Defamation League realized its partnership with Facebook wasn’t working. The social media...
View ArticleDid Brooklyn’s chasidic community achieve herd immunity?
Chasidic men pray outside at a socially distanced service in Borough Park, March 30, 2020. (Avi Kaye) NEW YORK — The front page of the June 26 issue of Der Yid, one of the most widely circulated...
View ArticleNew York Times opinion writer resigns
Bari Weiss (Josefin Dolsten) NEW YORK — Bari Weiss, the Jewish opinion writer and editor who has been a lightning rod for left-wing critics, has resigned from The New York Times. The author of a...
View ArticleDeSean Jackson, harshly criticized, says he’ ll visit Auschwitz
DeSean Jackson (Wikimedia Commons) PHILADELPHIA — NFL star DeSean Jackson, who last week apologized for posting anti-Semitic quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler and Louis Farrakhan, accepted a Holocaust...
View ArticleBanner speaks brotherhood
By Toby Tabachnik, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA PITTSBURGH — Just two days after Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson posted an anti-Semitic message he attributed to Adolf Hitler on...
View ArticleJewish Republicans sell Trump
WASHINGTON — When Jewish Republicans met online last weekend to talk about the best way to defeat Joe Biden, the conversation kept sliding back to a question that has beset them since 2016: How do you...
View ArticleJohn Lewis’ history with US Jews
John Lewis, D-Ga., and Holocaust refugee Norbert Bikales light candles at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 9, 2002. (Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional...
View ArticleIsrael and American policing
JERUSALEM — In June, as protests against policing in the US took hold, so did an accusation about a group of programs that sends American police chiefs to learn from their counterparts in Israel. “The...
View ArticleDay schools expect an uptick
NEW YORK — In the last academic year, Syracuse Hebrew Day School had a grand total of 34 students enrolled in grades K-6, down from a high-water mark of 165 students decades ago. The 60-year-old school...
View ArticleNFL player: ‘Jews market in pedophilia’
Kansas Chiefs running back Larry Johnson pictured on Oct. 4, 2009 at Arrowhead Stadium. (Jamie Squire/Getty) KANSAS CITY — Another black athlete is using Twitter to promote anti-Semitic tropes. This...
View ArticlePro-BDS candidates win in two states
Rashida Tlaib (YouTube Screenshot) WASHINGTON — Rashida Tlaib, one of two Congress members to support the boycott Israel movement, defeated a challenger in her Michigan district’s Democratic primary as...
View ArticleCNN election forecaster Harry Enten reflects on his Judaism, work
By Steven Silver NEW YORK — A native of the Bronx, Harry Enten, the CNN politics election forecaster, speaks with a thick New York accent and regularly drops a “Shalom” during his frequent TV...
View ArticleNew Israel fund sued
WASHINGTON — A pro-Israel activist has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service alleging that the nonprofit New Israel Fund (NIF) electioneered in violation of its tax-exempt status by...
View ArticleIsrael and the progressive agenda
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Sen. Bernie Sanders at a Sanders campaign rally in Detroit, Oct. 27, 2019. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty) WASHINGTON — The Israel issue isn’t necessarily toward the top of the...
View ArticleAt DNC, Dems attack Trump
Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses the Democratic National Convention on August 17, 2020. (Handout/DNCC via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Democrats launched their virtual convention with appeals for a...
View ArticleOn Instagram page, Jewish students share tales of anti-Semitism
By Gabriel Greschler, j. The Jewish news of Northern California via JTA SAN FRANCISCO — A graduate student’s Jewish facial features mocked. A classmate saying Jews play the “minority card” to get into...
View ArticleOne of America’s longest COVID sufferers is starting to recover
Rabbi Yehuda “Yudi” Dukes (Itzik Roitman/Merkos302/JNet) NEW YORK — At a moment when the world could use a dose of hope, along comes Rabbi Yehuda “Yudi” Dukes. In late March, Dukes was hospitalized in...
View ArticlePompeo speaks from Jerusalem
Mike Pompeo delivers his remarks from Jerusalem, Aug. 25, 2020. (RNC via Getty Images) JERUSALEM — Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, spoke from Jerusalem to the Republican convention supporting...
View ArticleHatred on the highway
Sign hung on a Hwy. 405 overpass in Los Angeles, Aug. 22. (JTA/Twitter/Siamak Kordestani) via J. the Jewish News of Northern California LOS ANGELES — “Honk if you know the Jews want a race war.” That...
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