By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA)  – Before he killed at least 22 people at a Walmart on the southern border, the gunman in El Paso posted a white supremacist manifesto on the fringe social network 8chan denouncing a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” The U.S. Justice Department announced that it would treat the shooting as a “domestic terrorist case.” […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA)–Forty Jews were arrested at a New York City protest against Amazon’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Sunday, Aug. 11, protest was one of more than 50 similar Jewish demonstrations that were held across the country to mark Tisha B’Av, the traditional Jewish day of mourning, in opposition to U.S. immigration policy. […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – In July 1939, eight months after Kristallnacht and seven weeks before Hitler would invade Poland, Congress killed a bill that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United States. Opponents of the bill, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, said America should help its own poor people before foreigners, and […]

By MARCY OSTER NEW YORK CITY(JTA) – The Manischewitz Co. will sell all of its kosher food business to Kenover Marketing Corp., the companies announced. The companies “have reached an understanding for a transaction whereby Kenover Marketing Corp. will acquire all of the kosher food business of Manischewitz,” according to reports. Kenover is part of Kayco, located in Bayonne, New […]

DC Report By Douglas  Bloomfield Donald Trump knows a thing or two about presidential harassment. He has been doing it to others for years, usually by spreading smears and lies about five of his predecessors as well as assorted foreign presidents, prime ministers, mayors and even the pope. Like the bully on the playground, he can dish it out but […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA)  – When Rabbi Mark Rosenberg’s family played back the footage on their home’s security cameras in North Miami Beach, they could hear the rat-tat-tat of bullets being fired at the synagogue a few blocks away. On Sunday, 28, a man had been shot repeatedly in front of the Young Israel of Greater Miami […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – U.S. Jews know more about religion than their non-Jewish neighbors, a new survey shows. Americans who are not Jewish, meanwhile, don’t know a lot about Judaism. But they like Jews more than any other religious group. And they think there are more Jews in the country than there actually are. The more […]

NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Mark Talisman, who as an aide to an Ohio congressman helped write and muster support for a key measure in the fight to free Soviet Jewry and went on to devote himself to Jewish advocacy and historical memory, has died. He was 78. His death was announced on Facebook by his daughter Jessica Talisman, who […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Alan Dershowitz represented convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he was sentenced more than a decade ago to what is generally considered an extremely light term. Epstein had abused dozens of underage girls, but was given only 13 months in a private wing of a county jail. He was allowed to leave […]

By GABE STUTMAN SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) – A 23-year-old East Bay man who threatened on a gaming website to murder “over 30” Jews and police officers wants his gun back. Ross Farca of Concord, Calif. recently returned to court to contest a restraining order that would extend a prohibition on his possession […]