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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...

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ADL 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...

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Did 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...

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New 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...

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DeSean 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...

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Banner 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...

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Jewish 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...

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John 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...

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Israel 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...

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Day 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...

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NFL 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...

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Pro-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...

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CNN 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...

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New 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...

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Israel 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...

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At 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...

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On 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...

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One 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...

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Pompeo 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...

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Hatred 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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