International

Brazilian restaurant sorry for signs accusing Israel of genocide, urging boycott

RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian Arab food restaurant apologized for placing anti-Israel signs at its entrance after a massive Jewish-led boycott campaign on social media. One of the owners of Papaya Verde restaurant, in Recife, sent a note to the Pernambuco Jewish federation stressing that the big and colorful “Free Palestine! it’s not war, […]

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International, Middle East

‘Bad Rabbi’ exposes seamy underbelly of early 20th century Jewish life

‘Bad Rabbi’ by Eddy Portnoy (Courtesy Stanford University Press) Thugs. Thieves. Blackmailers. Deadbeats. Murderers. These are the kinds of Jews who populate “Bad Rabbi and Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press,” a new book published this month by Stanford University Press. Contrary to what Hollywood, popular culture, and family lore would have

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Jewish History, USA

Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled in Leeds

Police are investigating after anti-semitic graffiti was found scrawled in Leeds, England. Vandals scrawled a Swastika and wrote “kikes” outside the Eitz Chaim Synagogue. West Yorkshire Police put out a statement saying that “At 8:41 am today, police received a report of anti-Semitic graffiti at the Etz Chaim Synagogue, in Harrogate Road, Leeds.” “Officers attended

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International

Two anti-Israel programs canceled at CJH and AJHS

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein has issued a press release publicizing the success of a campaign to bring about the cancellation of two planned Center for Jewish History’s (CJH) and American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) programs. Spearheading the protests against the planned events and the choice of CJH head David Myers

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Middle East, USA

Bronfman Fellowship to select 26 high schoolers

ALBANY, New York (Press Release)–The Bronfman Fellowship has announced that applications are now being accepted for the 32nd year of this prestigious program. The Bronfman Fellowship selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel in the summer between the Fellows’ junior and senior

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Middle East, USA

COP opposes Qatari for UNESCO chief

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued the following statement: “The first two rounds of voting by the 58 member Executive Board of UNESCO for the election of the next Director General of the United Nations body responsible

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International, Middle East, USA

Bennett pushes for more Orthodoxy in public schools

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–If you decide to look up the word that appears often nowadays in the Hebrew press, הדתה (hadata), you’re not likely to find it in standard dictionaries. It’s obviously connected to the word dat (דת), a Persian term which entered the Hebrew language to mean “religion.” The derivative can perhaps be

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Staffers Treat Trump Like a Child

Aides to Donald Trump have reportedly adopted a babysitter-style strategy for dealing with the president’s bad ideas: Instead of telling him “no,” they make an empty promise to come back to it later. The technique was detailed in a Politico report out Monday, just after Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, tweeted the White House

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USA