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January 2015

Streit’s closing Lower East Side matzah factory after 90 years

NEW YORK (JTA) — Streit’s said it will close the company’s 90-year-old matzah factory on New York’s Lower East Side.Aron Streit, Inc., a family-owned business, said it will leave the facility at 148-154 Rivington St. following...

3 convicted in Jerusalem wedding hall terror plot

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three eastern Jerusalem residents were convicted of planning a terror attack on a wedding hall in Jerusalem.The men, including a former worker at the hall, were convicted on Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court...

Israel balks at tax transfer in response to Palestinians’ ICC bid

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel froze some $125 million in Palestinian tax revenue in response to the Palestinian Authority’s request to join the International Criminal Court.The move over the weekend followed the P.A.’s request on Friday to...

Bess Myerson, only Jewish Miss America, dead at 90

(JTA) – Bess Myerson, the only Jewish woman to be crowned Miss America, has died.Myerson, who also was a spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League and donated $1.1 million to help found the Museum of Jewish Heritage...

KKK

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is taking heat for his 2002 address to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, a white supremacist group co-founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Duke has had much to say regarding the Jewish community. Which of the following is NOT a quote from David Duke?

Ku Klux Klan member

AJewish hatred of Christ and Christianity can be seen in a never-ending parade of vicious Jewish attacks on Jesus and Christianity in the media. It is illustrated by Larry David’s HBO television program Curb Your Enthusiasm where this Jew urinates on a picture of Jesus.

B. [The Talmud] sets the entire course of law by which Jews must live, boasting that Jews themselves were the ones who executed Jesus, not the Romans. It also claims that Jewish priests in the afterworld have conjured up Jesus where they are boiling him in excrement for eternity.

C. No Jewish leader has to direct his minions to seek political control of Gentile nations; they do it as naturally as the Blue Jay appropriates another bird’s nest.

D. These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness - teenage suicide... all these Jewish sicknesses. That’s nothing new. The Talmud’s full of things like sex with boys and girls.

E. The only positive contribution ever made to the world by the Jewish people is the pastrami sandwich at Katz’s Deli. Oy. Such a mechaya!

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Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ahmed Tibi raises Palestinian flag on Temple Mount

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ahmed Tibi, an Arab-Israeli Knesset member, raised the Palestinian flag on the Temple Mount.Tibi on Saturday led a procession of hundreds of eastern Jerusalem Palestinians to the site in honor of the birthday...

1.5 million visitors to Auschwitz museum in ’14 sets mark

(JTA) — More than 1.5 million people visited the former Auschwitz concentration camp in 2014, setting a record.It was the highest attendance ever at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Poland, according to its museum.“The Auschwitz-Birkenau...

Dershowitz denies sex charges

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Alan Dershowitz firmly denied allegations that he engaged in sexual activity with a minor employed by a client.Dershowitz declared “totally, unequivocally and completely false” allegations that he had sex with the former staffer...

British soccer boss suspended for saying Jews chase money

(JTA) — The English Football Association punished the owner of a British soccer club over anti-Semitic and racist slurs.Dave Whelan, who owns the Wigan Athletic Football Club near Manchester, was banned from all soccer-related activities for...

Anti-Semitic graffiti at Venezuelan synagogue

(JTA) — Vandals marked the wall of a synagogue in Venezuela’s capital with a swastika and the number “6,000,000” with question marks.The black spray-painted graffiti was found at the AIV del Este Sephardic synagogue in Caracas...