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NJ woman charged with embezzling more than $350,000 from shul
Stacy Margaritondo, 51, allegedly embezzled more than $350,000 from a synagogue in Union County, N.J., the U.S. Justice Department said last week without revealing the name of the religious institution.
The defendant allegedly stole the funds between...
Hamas deserves Argentina’s terrorism designation
At 7:56 am on Oct. 7, 2023, Ronit Sultan, the daughter of Argentine immigrants, texted her daughter-in-law to “take care of yourself” as rockets from Gaza flew overhead.
Ten minutes later, Ronit texted a friend that Hamas...
Worrying signals on the Middle East from Britain’s new Labour government
It’s been only three weeks since Sir Keir Starmer was elected as Britain’s new prime minister in the Labour Party’s first general election triumph since 2005, but so much has happened in the aftermath—the...
Kamala Harris wants it both ways on Israel
Since she became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency in the last week, backers of Vice President Kamala Harris have been doing their best to redefine her image. That has...
Nazi-stolen art returned to heirs in New York City ceremony
The family of Fritz Grünbaum—a cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazis during World War II and the Holocaust—received “Seated Nude Woman, front view,” a work by Austrian artist Egon Schiele.
The Manhattan...
California school district violated Title VI by failing to address antisemitism
A California school system failed to follow the 1964 Civil Rights Act by not protecting Jewish students from antisemitism, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
That office announced on Friday that...
Iran deploys deceptively edited clip of 2017 Trump-Netanyahu meeting
The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) published an eight-second video on social media with the description “Netanyahu humiliated in the U.S.”
https://twitter.com/IrnaEnglish/status/1816842168947933293?
Observers soon discovered that the clip, released on Friday before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit...
Inside story: Behind the Netanyahu-Harris meeting
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sent strong signals to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week on what to expect from a relationship should she succeed U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office.
Netanyahu...
Senate bill would beef up Title VI probes of alleged school biases
Four Republican senators introduced the Restoring Civility on Campus Act, which calls on the U.S. Department of Education to immediately investigate alleged school violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring discrimination based...
Passengers offer Lyft driver lesson on swastika
A man and woman waiting for their Lyft ride got a rather unpleasant surprise—and began recording their experience—after their car arrived with a swastika drawn on the hood.
“That mean hate, that mean hate!” the...