Washington – Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado became the 21st Democrat to announce a presidential bid, citing among other inspirations his Holocaust survivor mother and grandparents. Bennet, whose father is not Jewish, does not identify as Jewish. However, he has cited his mother’s survival of the Holocaust on multiple occasions as an impetus for his [...]

SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein visited British Mandatory Palestine and met with local Jews in 1933. His signature was recently discovered in a Jerusalem guestbook

A man was arrested in Washington state on Wednesday after reportedly making death threats against conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro told Fox News he couldn’t comment on pending legal proceedings but confirmed the situation, as reported by TMZ, on Twitter, thanking law enforcement “for their quick and hard work here.”
The suspect reportedly threatened both Shapiro and his family. Sources told the outlet the threats were “extremely serious.”
Read more at Fox News.
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Berlin – Germany’s leading Jewish organization expressed alarm Thursday over footage of flag-waving neo-Nazis in self-styled uniforms marching through an eastern German town on May Day unhindered by police. Footage of the march Wednesday prompted widespread outrage in Germany and calls for authorities in the state of Saxony, where far-right sentiment is particularly strong, to [...]

NYC Makes Calls From Jail Free, 1st Major US City To Do SoNew York is now providing free phone calls from jails, making it the first major U.S. city to eliminate fees for inmate calls, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.
The Democratic mayor said the city has fully implemented the law passed by the City Council last August.

San Francisco – Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and others from its main service and from Instagram, saying they violated the company’s ban against hate and violence. The company said Thursday that it has also banned extreme right-wing figures Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and the conservative conspiracy site [...]

President Trump on Thursday took aim at the investigations into his administration during a National Day of Prayer event, telling attendees that he has survived the “witch hunts” in part by thinking about God.
“People say, ‘How do you get through that whole stuff. How do you go through those witch hunts and everything else?’ ” Trump told the crowd gathered in the White House Rose Garden.
“And you know what we do, Mike? We just do it,” he continued, gesturing toward Vice President Pence. “And we think about God. That’s true.”
“As God promises in the Bible, those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on the wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; and they will walk and not be faint,” Trump said.

Phoenix – When Chris Williamson was in the market for a new family car, a timely ad and conversations with a co-worker convinced him to try something out of the ordinary. He bought a BMW 3 Series convertible and covers the payments by renting it to strangers on a peer-to-peer car sharing app called Turo. [...]

Two Jewish sons, both hidden in WWII Belgium, embrace in Jerusalem as B’nai B’rith honors founders of Belgian-Jewish underground rescue group

Poway Chabad Shaliach Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein Delivers Moving Speech At White HouseHe was not originally included on the roster of speakers at the National Day of Prayer at the White House, but Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, heroic senior rabbi of Chabad of Poway, drew tears from his listeners and words of grateful appreciation from President Donald Trump when the president spontaneously called him up to share his message of pride and strength in the face of evil.

An unoccupied in Jackson, New Jersey, has been vandalized with antisemitic slogans.
Residents in the neighborhood woke up to find the home spray painted with a swastika and the word Hitler, along with other antisemitic phrases and symbols.
Police are investigating.
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Rabbi: 'We did not have a chance to start using the funds yet'; Republican senator calls to examine removing red tape

Newark, NJ – Newark airport officials say a man had two loaded guns in his carry-on bag and now he faces several weapons charges. Transportation Security Administration officials say agents at Newark Liberty International Airport found a .38-caliber revolver loaded with six bullets and a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun loaded with 12 bullets at the Terminal [...]

US Productivity Grows At Solid 3.6% Rate In First QuarterU.S. productivity grew at a solid 3.6% rate in the first three months of this year, the strongest quarterly gain in more than four years and a hopeful sign that a long stretch of weak productivity gains may be coming to an end.
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Gaza – Hamas’ leader in Gaza left for talks with Egyptian officials Thursday after a new outbreak of violence, as the militant group accused Israel of slowing down the implementation of Egyptian-mediated understandings aimed at easing the situation in the Palestinian enclave. The visit by Yehiyeh Sinwar to Cairo came hours after the Israeli military [...]

 Thousands March In Poland To Remember Holocaust Victims [VIDEOS & PHOTOS]Thousands of young Jews from around the world are joined by Holocaust survivors and politicians in an annual Holocaust remembrance march in southern Poland that focuses on fighting anti-Semitism, prejudice and hatred.

Official Palestinian Authority TV last month broadcast pictures of bodies of Holocaust victims in a Nazi concentration camp, presenting them as pictures of Arabs killed by Jews in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948.
Two other pictures, which P.A. TV also claimed were of Arabs killed in 1948 by Jews, were actually pictures of the the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in 1982.

Top adviser for prevention of genocide says ‘signs of the '30s are resurfacing' with resurgent anti-Semitism and growing anti-immigrant sentiment

Former Israeli atomic official Elie Geisler describes guarding a plutonium core, as well as plans to turn it into a nuclear bomb, during the 1967 Six Day War

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