Wednesday July 18, 2018 | 6 Av 5778
(JTA) — A regional politician in Austria defended a plan to limit access to kosher meat, conditioning its sale on permits that would be individually issued to observant Jews. The Wiener Zeitung daily reported Tuesday about the draft decree in the state of Lower Austria, one of nine states that make up the federal Republic...
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(JTA) — When cartoonist Matt Furie drew Pepe the Frog for a comic series, all he meant to do was create an amphibian pothead. But the cartoon frog, with a chubby face and half-closed eyes, was appropriated by the “alt-right,” whose members turned him into a mascot for their far-right, racist beliefs. Now Furie is fighting...
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(JTA) — Yitzhak Melamed was accosted by an anti-Semite and then beaten by German police while in the city of Bonn for a lecture last week. The attacks left the Jewish professor’s face bleeding, his glasses broken — and his will untouched. In October, Melamed will return to Germany. And he’ll be wearing his kippah,...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government would have far-reaching power to remove or block content from social media sites under legislation coming up for a vote in the Knesset. The so-called Facebook Law could delete the content for reasons that include incitement to terrorism without criminal proceeding and without any admissible evidence. The legislation, which...
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(JTA) — Natalie Portman is vegan, and she has made a video about another famous Jew who didn’t eat animals: Yiddish novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer. The video is an ad for PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but it doubles as a history lesson about Singer’s life and a reminder what she...
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(JTA) — A federal judge said that Jews are protected by a law banning racial discrimination when seeking employment. Magistrate Mark Hornsby said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not define what constitutes “race,” but that Jews were entitled to protection under it. In a court filing Friday, the Louisiana judge said that...
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