All posts tagged "Judaism"

MILWAUKEE — The religious fervor apparent from the very start of the Republican National Convention crescendoed to the point when a Donald Trump-impersonating pastor came on stage the first night.

“We are made in God's image, amen, and we won't shy away from speaking that simple truth ever,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Monday.

Next came Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina and candidate for North Carolina governor, who thanked his “Lord and savior Jesus Christ for giving us my life, health and strength.”...

PHILADELPHIA — Rabbi Lonnie Kleinman of Mount Airy was arrested at the U.S. Capitol three weeks ago, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Soon after her arrest was broadcast on Fox News, she received a text message from her father. He said he was deeply disappointed, and that her grandparents, who survived the Holocaust, would have been devastated if they were still alive, Kleinman said. She and her father are not currently speaking, she said. “He is acting from a place of wanting to protect the Jewish people and honor his parents’ legacy. And so am I,” said Kleinman, who is 32. “We’re just going ......

Cornell University’s campus Jewish life organization was under the watch of state and campus police Monday after hate-filled threats of violence were made against the student group, officials said. The upstate university’s president, Martha Pollack, said in a Sunday message to her community that the “horrendous” antisemitic threats explicitly named the location of the university’s Center for Jewish Living. Pollack said that the university had notified the FBI, and that campus police were investigating. Ominous threats were posted on Greekrank, a website for grading fraternities and sororities,......

New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand, joined by Mayor Eric Adams and Jewish New Yorkers, condemned the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas for its shocking and lethal Saturday surprise attack on Israel. “The terrorist attacks by Hamas on the people of Israel are absolutely horrific,” said Schumer in a statement. “The U.S. stands with Israel in its unwavering right to defend itself. I stand ready to ensure Israel has the support to do so. My prayers are with the dead, reported hostages, and hundreds injured.” Hamas unleashed its largest-scale attack on Israel in years, with gunmen......

NEW YORK — Threats of a national day of antisemitic hate sent Elizabeth Walsh to pray Saturday in her Upper East Side, Manhattan, synagogue. “I think it’s terrible, so I came to pray for peace,” the 66-year-old woman said at Temple Emanu-El on East 65th Street. “Pray for the people that have supported this day of hate, so that they could see that this is just as hateful for them, and for their own people ... It’s a disease.” Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Midtown Manhattan, fired back against the plans announced on social media by anonymous organizers for an ......

ST. LOUIS — More than a dozen faith leaders filed suit Thursday in St. Louis Circuit Court to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban, arguing state legislators acted based on their personal religious beliefs and violated the separation of church and state protected in Missouri’s Constitution. The faith leaders, from St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia, represent several Protestant and Jewish denominations. They partnered with the National Women’s Law Center and Americans United for Separation of Church and State in drafting the suit. “What these abortion restrictions do is enshrine into law the part......