(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League and 27 other Jewish social justice organizations penned a forceful open letter imploring political candidates to put an end to the racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia they say has emerged in this year’s campaign.
(JTA) — Donald Trump kept alive a controversy over a campaign tweet featuring apparently anti-Semitic imagery by saying his staff “shouldn’t have taken it down” and tweeting a picture featuring popular Disney characters to demonstrate that the media are “dishonest.”
JERUSALEM (JTA) — About 200 demonstrators protested next to the offices of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate as a hearing took place about the legitimacy of a conversion conducted by the prominent American Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein.
(JTA) — A policy adviser to Donald Trump told CNN that the Republican Party might be due to assert more support for Israeli settlements and possibly reject all together the idea of a two-state solution, which has long been a...
(JTA) — Abner Mikva, a federal judge and congressman who served as a mentor to a range of Democratic politicians from the Chicago area, died at age 90.
Mikva died Monday in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune. His political...
(JTA) — Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and campaign advisor Jared Kushner defended the presidential candidate saying he: “does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking.”
Kushner, who owns the New York Observer daily newspaper, was responding to...
(JTA) — The president of Poland strongly condemned anti-Semitism and all forms of racism and xenophobia in leading the commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of a massacre of Jews after World War II.
Speaking from the place where the Israeli army rescued 102 Jewish hostages 40 years ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni vowed to continue fighting terrorism, just as the Israeli army did during Operation...
(JTA) — Israel’s minister of public security said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has some of the “blood” of recent Israeli terrorism victims on his hands for allowing Palestinian incitement and hate speech to appear on the social media site.
(JTA) — A Turkish ship packed with aid for the Gaza Strip arrived in Israel, the first since Turkey and Israel reached a reconciliation deal that allows such transfers.
The cargo ship docking at Ashdod, just north of Gaza, on...
