Hartford, CT – A Connecticut state lawmaker says her children were threatened online by a person who opposes mandatory vaccinations for all school children. Democratic Rep. Liz Linehan, of Cheshire, posted Wednesday on Facebook that state Capitol police are investigating what she interpreted as a threat, which she said won’t change her support for mandatory [...]

Washington – The skeptical response to President Donald Trump’s choice of Stephen Moore for the Federal Reserve has thrown a spotlight on the tough task Trump has set for himself: Finding a rare conservative ally who both favors cutting interest rates and is respected enough to win Senate confirmation. Frustrated by the Fed’s handling of [...]

Berlin – A new survey has found that many Austrians lack basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide — even though the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp was just outside of the city of Linz, and some of the key perpetrators of the Holocaust were Austrian. The study released Thursday by the New York-based Conference on Jewish [...]

Waynesville , NC – A police escort is helping take home the body of North Carolina college student hailed as a hero for stopping a gunman in his classroom. An SUV left Charlotte on Thursday morning with 21-year-old Riley Howell, flanked by motorcycles and several other police vehicles with their blue lights flashing. Officials say [...]

Poway, CA – A gunman fired his semi-automatic rifle at Jewish worshippers after walking through a Southern California synagogue’s front entrance — a spot that religious leaders determined last year needed improved security. The Chabad of Poway synagogue applied for a federal grant to install gates and more secure doors to better protect that area. [...]

Warsaw – Thousands of young Jews from around the world joined Holocaust survivors and politicians Thursday for an annual Holocaust remembrance march in southern Poland that focuses on fighting anti-Semitism and hatred. About 10,000 marchers carrying Israeli flags and “Say NO to Antisemitism” banners took part in the annual March of the Living, which follows [...]

Washington – The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing that isn’t really a hearing, with lawmakers facing an empty chair after Attorney General William Barr informed the panel he wouldn’t show up for the session on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said as the session opened Thursday that [...]

Washington – Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein recited this morning the ‘Birchas Hagomel’ for miraculously being saved during a shooting at his synagogue last Saturday, at the Chabad in Washington, DC. Rabbi Goldstein flew to Washington last night, ahead of the National Day of Prayer event. The Rabbi and his family were personally invited to the event [...]

Warsaw – Ed Mosberg, a prominent Holocaust survivor from New Jersey, advised Poland’s president not to visit Israel over an Israeli minister’s anti-Polish remarks. Mosberg, a 93-year-old survivor of three concentration camps and honorary president of the From the Depths commemoration group, said Thursday at the Auschwitz former Nazi camp in Poland. “I told the [...]