Saturday, April 20th 2024 |
(JTA) — A Boston-area court has dismissed a larceny charge against the former rabbi of a synagogue in Boston who dipped into synagogue funds to pay off a blackmailer.
The Norfolk County Superior Court on Friday also agreed to a continuance of an embezzlement charge against Rabbi Barry Starr, which would lead to the charge being dropped and no jail time if he is not charged with any other...
(JTA) — The California State Assembly voted 60-0 on Tuesday to send an anti-BDS bill to the governor for approval, a week after the Senate passed it.
The bill, which the Senate passed in a 34-1 vote on Aug. 24, differed from its original version introduced in April by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, a Santa Monica Democrat, The Jewish Journal reported.
The earlier version banned the state from making contracts worth...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The son of an American man killed in a Jerusalem terror attack has called on the world scouting organization to drop the membership of the Palestinian branch, which has glorified his father’s killer.
The Palestinian Scout Association, which was accepted six months ago as full member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, named its leadership training course that started last week after the killer of...
(JTA) — Barbra Streisand told Australian TV that she will move to Australia or Canada if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States
Streisand, 74, who has endorsed Hillary Clinton and is a well-known Democratic Party supporter, made the threat to move during an interview Sunday aired on an Australian version of the “60 Minutes” newsmagazine
“He has no facts. I don’t know, I can’t believe it. I’m...
(JTA) — Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, a day after it emerged the disgraced former congressman sent a suggestive photo of himself next to a sleeping toddler that the New York Post reported was his son.
On Sunday, the Post published exchanges between Weiner and an unnamed woman that included sexually suggestive messages and photos. The two were said...
(JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court ordered an Israel arms dealer who allegedly sold American-made fighter jet parts to Iran to be extradited to the United States.
Following Sunday’s Supreme Court decision, the justice minister has to sign off on the extradition of Eli Cohen, 66, of Bnei Brak.
The Jerusalem District Court last year approved the extradition request made by the United States in 2014, but Cohen appealed.
Cohen and...
(JTA) — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he has been the target of “gruesome” anti-Semitic tweets from supporters of Donald Trump, whose for-profit Trump University is the target of a state lawsuit alleging fraud.
Schneiderman also joked that he would leave the United States for the Dominican Republic if Trump was elected president.
Schneiderman made the remarks during an interview published Aug. 25 by the New York Daily...
(JTA) — Donald Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks over a private school in Los Angeles that accepted his twin daughters, his ex-wife charged during a court battle over post-divorce financial issues.
Bannon’s second wife, Mary Louise Piccard, said in a sworn court declaration that Bannon said he did not want to send his daughters to The Archer School for Girls for the 2007-08 school year because he...
(JTA) — Three hundred Orthodox rabbis have signed a proclamation urging those suspecting child sex abuse to notify secular authorities and calling on Jewish institutions to take preventative measures to prevent abuse.
The letter, which was released Thursday and signed by rabbis from the the United States, Canada, Israel and Europe, recognizes that Orthodox communities “could have responded in more responsible and sensitive ways to help victims and to hold...
(JTA) — An anti-BDS group founded by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson did not fund a poster campaign targeting pro-Palestinian student activists as “Jew haters” and terrorists’ allies, contrary to a report in a major newspaper, the group said.
The Maccabee Task Force in a statement issued late Wednesday called the report in the Los Angeles Times “completely false,” saying the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative foundation based in Los...
