Farmers market boots vender who offered ‘Gas the Jews’ discount code
There’s peppercorn, and then there’s pepper scorn.
Justin Bale, who owns a business in Olathe, Kan., that grows more than 100 kinds of peppers and tomatoes, in addition to seasonings and hot sauces, has been...
House reps ‘frustrated’ with lack of transparency over Malley suspension
Robert Malley, the special representative for Iran suspended by U.S. State Department amid what is said to be an FBI investigation for mishandling classified documents, has landed a new gig in New Haven, Conn., while he...
Attorney seeks six months’ notice before Chassidic funerals in Upstate New York
Jewish law explicitly prohibits consulting soothsayers and fortune tellers. But that’s just what the Upstate New York village of Chestnut Ridge apparently expects a Chassidic cemetery called Har Shalom to do.
After traffic was held up for...
Zionist Rabbinic Coalition holds second annual conference in Washington
When Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt speaks around the country about the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition, which he chairs, people often tell him, “I thought all rabbis are Zionists.”
“The landscape of the American Jewish community and of the...
Maui fire survivors tell of Chabad’s assistance in wake of disaster
When Ido Sarfati moved to the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui a decade ago, he thought he had the perfect place to build a business. And he did; it grew...
New Jersey Supreme Court: Religious schools have right to ‘teachers who follow their faith’
The Supreme Court of New Jersey decided on Monday in favor of a Roman Catholic elementary school, which fired an unmarried teacher who became pregnant, citing a violation of its employment agreement.
Victoria Crisitello, an art teacher...
Three US presidential campaigns respond to Biden’s Netanyahu snub
It’s the gift that keeps on not giving.
Months after Benjamin Netanyahu was re-elected Israeli prime minister late last year, U.S. President Joe Biden has yet to invite the leader of one of Washington’s closest...
Federal agents arrest white supremacist, whose threats JNS reported exclusively
In early June, JNS reported exclusively that a known white supremacist, previously jailed on weapon charges, threatened jurors in the federal trial of the now-convicted shooter, who killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Yesterday, federal...
Dubowitz: $6b ransom to Iran will lead to more terrorism, hostages
Washington reached a deal with Tehran on Thursday to release five Iranian Americans, whom the Islamic Republic detained evidently on trumped-up charges. In exchange for the five being released to house arrest, the United...
New York City subway attacker pleads guilty to antisemitic hate crime
A New Yorker who assaulted and berated a Chassidic Jew in 2021 on a New York subway has accepted responsibility for his antisemitic actions.
Bradley Werner pleaded guilty to a hate crime earlier this week, reported The Forward....