A Jewish man was attacked in Central Park by a suspect who screamed “Kanye 2024″ and antisemitic slurs as he jumped his victim in what police are investigating as a hate crime. The 63-year-old victim was walking through the park near Terrace Drive and East Drive about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when the assailant, described as…
An Uber driver was recorded complaining about “too many Jews” while he had a Jewish passenger in the back seat of his car in New York City over the weekend. The video, posted by StopAntisemitism, has reached over 8,000 views on Twitter alone, and the numbers keep climbing. “Disgusting antisemitism from an Uber driver in…
The fight over control of Germany’s Reform rabbinical school has taken a new twist — one that appears poised to shatter longstanding institutions within liberal Judaism here, and reforge them into something new. The Central Council of Jews in Germany announced Thursday that it is bringing in an outside expert to help redesign the country’s…
German authorities said Saturday they had found a “considerable portion” of items stolen in a spectacular 2019 robbery of priceless 18th-century jewels from a state museum. The authorities retrieved a total of 31 items in the night of Friday to Saturday in the capital Berlin, the police and prosecutors said. The discovery comes in the…
TEHRAN — Iran arrested a prominent actor Saturday after she voiced support for the three-month-old protest movement triggered by the death of a woman in custody, Iranian media reported Saturday. Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, was detained for “publishing false and distorted content and inciting chaos,” the Tasnim news agency reported. She is best known for her…
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has pledged to give her money to charity “until the safe is empty.” That’s good news for a number of radical left-wing organizations. The billionaire divorcée this week detailed $14 billion in donations she has given to more than 1,600 nonprofit groups since 2019. The giveaway…
The Zaka Identification, Extraction, and Rescue organization has inflated data regarding the number of its volunteers, receiving millions of shekels on the basis of these figures from the state for years – this is the conclusion from documents and testimonies . According to an official Interior Ministry document, in recent years the organization has reported…
Rio Tinto has completed its acquisition of Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd for a consideration of approximately $3.1 billion, simplifying the ownership of the world-class Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia, significantly strengthening Rio Tinto’s copper portfolio, and demonstrating its long-term commitment to the project and Mongolia. Rio Tinto now holds a 66% direct interest in the…
It was one of the final decisions Trump officials made before leaving office. On January 15, 2021, the Treasury Department eased sanctions on Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, temporarily restoring his access to a web of companies and frozen bank accounts that U.S. officials say he used to bilk more than $1.3 billion in mining revenues…
EVANSTON, IL — Federal prosecutors this week unsealed more than a dozen fraud charges against a North Shore businessman who ran a defunct subprime auto loan company. Already awaiting trial on charges he misappropriated more than $5 million, federal prosecutors alleged the wound up defrauding a bank out of more than $50 million. Jim Collins,…