A pair of political scientists has managed to prove what ADL head Abe Foxman was simply able to intuit months ago: thirty-eight percent of non-Jewish Americans hold “the Jews” to some degree responsible for the financial crisis, and almost a full quarter blame “the Jews” a moderate amount or more. The surprising part, as reported ...

Anyone who knows anything about how synagogues work—especially small synagogues—won’t be surprised to hear there was a big debate at last night’s annual meeting of the First Narayever Congregation, an unaffiliated traditional-egalitarian synagogue in Toronto, about whether to shell out for the installation of a regular elevator to replace the rickety contraption that currently ferries ...

Until Friday’s presidential vote in Iran, the smarty-pants view in Jewish circles was this: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be a menace, but at least he’s a Holocaust-denying menace who rarely wastes the opportunity to call Israel a cesspool of racism. With him as the public face of the Islamic Republic, few could fail to misunderstand ...

A week after revealing the extremely stupid things drunk American Jewish kids in Israel are willing to say in front of a rolling video camera, intrepid reporter Max Blumenthal ventured out to an anti-settlement rally in Tel Aviv sponsored by the left-wing political party Hadash. Unsurprisingly, the sober Israelis he interviews say quite reasonable things. ...

A troop of Girl Scouts from Dallas were among the first people in line this morning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which re-opened today, two days after anti-Semitic Holocaust denier James von Brunn allegedly tried to storm the federal facility. “To say that we can’t do this because of this event is that man ...

If you’re a casting director in New York, you know that sooner or later, you’ll be asked to assemble a crowd of Hasidic-looking extras. But Hasidic characters are tricky to cast: secular actors usually need to be painstakingly outfitted with sidelocks, beards, and long black coats, and most actual ultra-Orthodox Jews tend to be leery ...

The historian Deborah Lipstadt, an expert on Holocaust denial, is a fellow this year at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and was in the building when yesterday’s shooting began. She had just begun a seminar for museum donors when she heard shots fired. “I was about to say, ‘The dangers of Holocaust denial are…,’ ” ...

It’s easy to dismiss the sprawling autobiography alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn posted on his own website (now offline) as the work of a wingnut. It’s hard to see someone who always writes “JEW” in all-caps as a reliable source, even to their own life story, and already some of his claims—including the ...

So, yes, Adam Lambert is gay. The American Idol runner-up confirms what everyone in the country pretty much already knew in the new Rolling Stone, which hit newsstands yesterday. Here’s something you maybe didn’t know: He’s Jewish, too. He talked to Rolling Stone’s Vanessa Grigoriadis about forgoing a bar mitzvah, and generally hating Hebrew school ...

A Brazilian legislator who was originally scheduled to fly to Israel from Rio via Paris aboard Air France’s doomed May 31 flight is crediting his insistence on flying El Al with saving his life. “We were granted a second life,” Jodenir Soares, an evangelical Christian pastor and politician who was traveling to an international conference, ...