Tag: Pennsylvania
‘Don’t know why anybody would think I like hoodies,’ says Fetterman of new Yeshiva...
More than 100 Yeshiva University students met last week in Washington with Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), one of Israel’s most vocal supporters in the U.S. Congress.
The Pennsylvania Democrat posted photos on social media holding a blue...
Fetterman directs anti-Israel protesters to others, ‘We’re not changing’
Clad in a dark hoodie and shorts and holding a miniature Israeli flag, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) emerges from his office to engage with a small group of anti-Israel protesters. The first thing he...
RJC endorses Pennsylvania senate candidate Dave McCormick
The Republican Jewish Coalition has called for a change in Pennsylvania’s political leadership.
On Tuesday, the group released a statement from Norm Coleman, a former Minnesota senator and the current RJC national chairman, and CEO...
‘You’re Jewish, I’m from Hamas … we’re going to blow you up’
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania charged Yaniv Gola, 50, of Philadelphia, with eight counts of interstate communication of threats on Monday.
Gola, who faces up to 40 years in jail, three years...
Penn ‘failed to take concrete action’ on Jew-hatred, state governor says
The recent resignation of University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and board chair Scott Bok has thrown Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro “into a national debate over when constitutionally protected speech veers into impermissible hate speech,” The Wall...
Pennsylvania’s presidential primary conflicts with Passover
Pennsylvania State Rep. Jared Solomon doesn’t want to have “to choose between celebrating Passover and going to the polls.”
The Jewish Democrat, who represents Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, is one of many prominent voices in the...
Pennsylvania announces first Jewish Legislative Caucus
For the first time, Pennsylvania’s state legislature has created a Jewish Legislative Caucus to advance issues of concern to the keystone state’s Jewish community. State Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) and State Sen. Judy Schwank...
Pennsylvania man sentenced to 18 months in jail for online threats against Jews
A man from Lehighton, Pa., was sentenced by a U.S. District Court judge to 18 months in prison for making Internet threats against Jews.
Corbin Kauffman, 32, received his sentencing on Tuesday after pleading guilty to one...
Lawyer cites satire in defense of Dickinson student’s anti-Semitic Holocaust video
The lawyer representing a student who attends Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., now under investigation by the school for anti-Semitic comments he made in a video praising the Holocaust, said the clip was meant to be...
Pennsylvanians glory in their election role
It is almost all up to the surviving Pennsylvanians whose votes have yet to be counted. That means me.
My head swelled for awhile as Joe Biden, Donald Trump and their surrogates traversed Pennsylvania’s 46,000...