United States

88-year-old rabbi injured at Coast Guard ceremony can sue government

A federal judge in Brooklyn struck down the U.S. government’s request for summary judgment in the case of Rabbi William Kloner, an 88-year-old military chaplain who was seriously injured while preparing to speak at a Coast Guard ceremony in 2010.

Memphis Jewish congressman: DNC staffers behind Sanders emails should be fired

Rep. Steve Cohen told Tennessee’s delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that the staffers "crossed the Rubicon. They crossed the line."

Jewish death row prisoner in Kentucky sues for exclusion from kosher meal program

William Harry Meece, a prisoner in Kentucky, in his federal suit claims he is being unfairly penalized for eating rotisserie chicken that had not been certified kosher.