NEW YORK (JTA) — The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an elite New York City prep school, has fired a teacher who posted tweets opposing Zionism. JB Brager, who taught history at Fieldston, was fired Thursday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned. The termination comes after Brager, who is Jewish, posted multiple tweets disparaging Zionism amid […]

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — Israel released two more Syrian prisoners back to the occupied Golan Heights on Friday, a second goodwill gesture to Russia for helping find the remains of an Israeli soldier missing for over 35 years. The latest release was part of a swap that began last April. That’s when Israel, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American warship was “aggressively approached” by a Russian Navy ship in the North Arabian Sea, the U.S. Navy said Friday. Navy Cmdr. Josh Frey, spokesman for U.S. 5th Fleet, said that the USS Farragut was conducting routine operations Thursday and sounded five short blasts to warn the Russian ship of a […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge has ruled in favor of an apartment company owed by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner in a lawsuit that claimed the company charged improper fees. Westminster Management was granted a motion for summary judgment on Thursday, with Baltimore Circuit Judge Philip Jackson agreeing that […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — The music streaming service Spotify said it would remove playlist titles deemed to contain anti-Semitic hate speech. A spokesperson for Spotify said this Thursday in a statement to the New York Post that the content in question violates company policy. The statement followed a report by The Times of Israel that […]

PARIS (JTA) — Several hundred people attended a ceremony commemorating the fifth anniversary of the murder of four Jews at a Paris kosher supermarket by a jihadist. At the event Thursday outside HyperCacher in the Porte de Vincennes area in eastern Paris, candles were lit for each victim and the crowd sang the French national […]

KUTZTOWN, PA (JTA) — A federal lawsuit alleges that a Pennsylvania university failed to respond to complaints about anti-Semitic harassment, forcing a student to leave the school. Cassidy Pyser, in a lawsuit filed last week in federal court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claims that her former roommate at Kutztown University sent her text […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Boeing employees knew about problems with flight simulators for the now-grounded 737 Max and apparently tried to hide them from federal regulators, according to documents released Thursday. In internal messages, Boeing employees talked about misleading regulators about problems with the simulators. In one exchange, an employee told a colleague they wouldn’t let […]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — President Donald Trump used his first campaign election rally of 2020 to argue that he served up “American justice” by ordering a drone strike to take out Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, while jeering Democratic leaders for questioning his decision to carry out the attack without first consulting Congress. Trump’s remarks on […]

NEW YORK(VINnews) — The recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks has led to another worrying phenomenon, as a bunch of trolls on Twitter are attempting to use the attacks to foment racial tensions by assuming rabbinic identities and making racist statements, according to an NBC New York report. The social media company is slow to react […]