Jerusalem – Earlier this month, just hours before the start of Passover, the British Labour Party tweeted out holiday greetings to its more than 671,000 followers. “As Jewish people prepare for Passover, we’re wishing everyone in the Jewish community chag sameach,” read the now deleted message, which was accompanied by the image of a Star [...]

Washington – Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he and other negotiators for the Trump administration should know this week or next whether they can reach a trade deal with China — or whether it’s time to “move on.” Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are traveling to Beijing to resume talks Tuesday to try to [...]

Brooklyn, NY – The MTA has identified the driver who allegedly made discriminatory remarks to a Chasidic passenger earlier this month referring the large number of reported cases of the highly contagious virus that has swept through Williamsburg’s Jewish community, placing her on restrictive duty while it investigates the incident. While not identifying the bus [...]

Poway, CA – Family and friends remembered a woman killed in a shooting at a Southern California synagogue as a generous person dedicated to spreading kindness, with her daughter telling the crowd Monday that she knows her mother would forgive the man who took her life as she worshipped. A memorial service for Lori Kaye, [...]

New York – Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg met Monday with the Rev. Al Sharpton, as the Indiana mayor faces scrutiny of his record on race and is stepping up his outreach to African Americans. Buttigieg and the civil rights leader met for lunch in Harlem at Sylvia’s Restaurant, a cornerstone of black American culture [...]

Washington – The Israeli ambassador to the United States linked The New York Times to the “Jew-hatred of growing parts of the intellectual class.” Ron Dermer was speaking Monday in the U.S. Capitol at the annual Holocaust Days of Remembrance organized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. It was an unusually political attack on a [...]

Poway, CA – A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder and three counts of attempted murder in the weekend attack on a Southern California synagogue. San Diego County prosecutors also charged John T. Earnest on Monday with an earlier arson attack on a mosque. The murder and attempted murder charges stemming from Saturday’s shooting [...]

Miami – A bill prohibiting anti-Semitism in Florida’s public schools and universities is going to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Senate unanimously passed the bill Monday, two days after a gunman opened fire in a California synagogue, killing one and injuring three others. Lawmakers mentioned the shooting before passing the bill, which would mandate that [...]

Washington – Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has submitted a letter of resignation to President Donald Trump. It’s effective May 11. His departure ends a nearly two-year run defined by his appointment of a special counsel to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. The departure had been expected since the confirmation of William [...]

New York – The CEO of Boeing defended the company’s safety record and declined to take any more than partial blame for two deadly crashes of its best-selling plane even while saying Monday that the company has nearly finished an update that “will make the airplane even safer.” Chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenburg took reporters’ [...]