Daily Archives: July 28, 2020
Turkey’s Hagia Sophia opens as mosque with Erdoğan reciting first prayer
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan joined hundreds of Muslim worshippers in Istanbul on Friday for the first prayers from the Koran in nearly 90 years inside the Hagia Sophia, once one of Christianity’s most...
Jewish entities worldwide institute 48-hour freeze on Twitter over hate speech
International Jewish groups are joining in a 48-hour abstention from Twitter in solidarity with Jews in the United Kingdom after British rap star Wiley, who has hundreds of thousands of followers, went on an...
Rapper Jay Electronica calls rabbi a ‘coward’ and ‘devil’
Rapper Jay Electronica called Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a “coward” and a “devil” following the rabbi’s appearance last week on the podcast hosted by...
Jewish groups, customers denounce Nazi face masks worn in Minnesota Walmart
Jewish groups have rebuked a couple who was confronted at a Walmart in Marshall, Minn., on July 25 for wearing Nazi swastika-flags on their face masks.
Raphaela Mueller, who was born and raised in Germany...