NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Despite his serious thoughts about an NBA comeback, Amar’e Stoudemire is taking a little break from basketball to go to school. The former six-time NBA All-Star, who had never attended college, started this fall as a freshman at Florida International University in Miami. Though the semester just started, Stoudemire — who has converted to Judaism, […]

(JNS) – The number of Israel-related, anti-Semitic incidents against Jewish students on campuses increased 70 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to a report published on Tuesday, Sept. 17, by the nonprofit watchdog AMCHA Initiative. Bias Shifts In Focus In its report, “The Harassment of Jewish Students on U.S. Campuses: How Eliminationist Anti-Zionism and Academic BDS Incite Campus Anti-Semitism,” AMCHA […]

(JNS) – Leaders in the Jewish community have called for a new trial for Randy Halprin, a Jewish man scheduled to be executed on Oct. 10 in Texas who was part of “The Texas Seven” that escaped from prison almost 19 years ago and killed a police officer after they held up a sporting goods store, following allegations that he was sentenced […]

By FAYGIE HOLT (JNS) – When the power went out in Jackson, N.J., on a particularly hot summer night, Howard Orama and his family, including his wife, Carol, and adult son, were planning to do what they always did: simply weather it out. As U.S. Air Force veteran, Orama was used to handling things on his own and this time […]

By JACKSON RICHMAN (JNS) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently said that the Trump administration is considering allowing U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to list “Jerusalem, Israel” on their U.S. passports. “We’re constantly evaluating the way we handle what can be listed on passports,” he told JNS . Despite the U. S. recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in […]

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) – Benjamin Netanyahu had quite a Tuesday, Sept. 10. One week before Israelis go to the polls in their country’s second election this year, the Israeli prime minister went on live television with a promise that if re-elected, he is prepared to annex sensitive areas of the West Bank in “maximum coordination” with President Donald […]

By MARCY OSTER (JTA) – Sen. Bernie Sanders got a standing ovation at the Islamic Society of North America annual convention in Houston. Sanders spoke recently to the convention’s some 6,000 attendees, the first presidential candidate, along with Julian Castro, to address the gathering, the largest meeting of Muslim Americans. “I am here today because I believe in the concept […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – As he talks about the recent string of attacks on Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, Yosef Rapaport points to a small scar above his right eye. It’s the remnant of an anti-Semitic attack he experienced 50 years ago as a teenager in Montreal. “For those of us who look very Jewish, this has […]

By MARCY OSTER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Hurricane Dorian, which remained stalled over the Bahamas from Sunday Sept. 1 and over most of Monday, was making its way toward the Florida coast, although slowly at 1 mph. It is not known exactly where and when the hurricane will make landfall. The Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County announced on […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield When I started to write this column a couple weeks ago it appeared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would resist Donald Trump’s pressure to ban two Muslim members of Congress from visiting Israel, knowing it would make martyrs of them and damage Israel’s relations with the Democrats, so I began with the question “How stupid does […]