(JTA) — A woman has been arrested in connection with the vandalism of a Texas synagogue and two other houses of worship. Temple Emanuel, a Reform synagogue in McAllen, a church and a Hindu temple were spray-painted Tuesday morning with a swastika and the words “WITCH,” “HADES,” “RAPEST,” “NEW YORK KILLER” and other random phrases…
After years of attending friends’ bar and bat mitzvahs, brothers Matthew, Jeremy, and Danny Jason had dozens of kippot stashed all over their Houston home, souvenirs they never thought they’d need again. But in the era of coronavirus, there’s a good use for any object that covers the nose and mouth. In the past several…
(JTA) — A Jewish student in Texas was kicked off his high school’s robotics team after he made an anti-Semitic joke at his own expense. The student filed a federal lawsuit against Anderson High School in Austin, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. According to the lawsuit, the student found some coins on the floor of…
(JTA) — A number of Jewish groups and lawyers are urging the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay the scheduled execution of a Jewish inmate who said his judge was anti-Semitic. In July, Dallas County Judge Lela Mays approved an Oct. 10 execution date for Randy Halprin, who was part of the “Texas 7” group…
In the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, international news outlets are pointing to white supremacist terrorism as the cause. Australia, for example: “US in the midst of a white nationalist terrorism crisis.” In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League found that “39 of the 50 killings committed by political extremists were carried out by…
(JTA) — A Jewish death row inmate in Texas has filed an appeal alleging that the judge in the case was anti-Semitic and racist. Randy Halprin, 41, said in the appeal filed last month that Judge Vickers Cunningham referred to him using anti-Semitic language and should have recused himself from his case. Halprin was part…
A woman is suing a Jewish community center in Dallas for failing to protect her from an employee who allegedly raped her when she was 14. The lawsuit claims that in 2014, an employee of the Aaron Family JCC’s fitness center named Randy Lee Adrian groomed and sexually assaulted her at the gym and offsite…
A federal judge in Texas blocked a law on Thursday that banned state entities from contracting with businesses that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Judge Robert Pitman ruled in a 56-page opinion that the law serves to “suppress unpopular ideas” and “manipulate the public debate through coercion rather than persuasion….This…
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