After bowing out of mayor’s race, Max Rose appointed to Pentagon job as COVID adviser
The outspoken congressman defeated in his bid for reelection, now appears headed to the Pentagon to be a top adviser on the coronavirus pandemic.
Janet Yellen to be nominated as first female treasury secretary
Janet Yellen believes in an activist role for government in combating market volatility, and sees unemployment as more destabilizing than inflation.
Two potted marijuana plants seized from Argentine synagogue’s courtyard
Villarino Mayor Carlos Bevillacua said the synagogue was not responsible in any way for the marijuana seized last week.
Biden nominates Alejandro Mayorkas, Latino Jew who has said Jews face heightened threat, as Homeland Security secretary
“I come from a tradition of a lack of security instilled in me as a very young person,” said Alejandro Mayorkas.
Report: Satmar Orthodox Jews hid massive wedding from public view, Cuomo calls for investigation
“It’s illegal and the city should do a robust investigation,” Cuomo said.
Pompeo’s historic Israel visit includes winery that has named a vintage for him
“I very much wanted to come here on this trip to tell the world that we have it right. The United States has it right. Israel has it right.”
Islamists have declared war on France, Jewish community leader says following fatal church stabbings
The perpetrator was shouting “Allah hu akbar” — Arabic for Allah is the greatest — before he was shot and rushed to the hospital, Le Monde reported.
Trump administration set to allow ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ on passports
Politico quoted an administration official who confirmed the change, which reverses decades of policy under Republican and Democratic presidents.
Jewish Republican candidate dredges up debunked claim that George Soros a ‘Nazi sympathizer’
In reality, George Soros was hidden as a child by a Hungarian bureaucrat and once accompanied him to survey the property of a Jewish household.
First, Auschwitz researchers found a name written in a child’s shoe. That led them to the father’s suitcase.
“With this gesture, objects inextricably linked to Auschwitz lose the anonymity weighing down on them — sometimes unbearable.”