Seamus Mcgraw
By Seamus Mcgraw
-
News Nazi-Looted Artwork At Issue in NPR Flap
National Public Radio has suspended a veteran New York arts journalist indefinitely after he prepared what the network called an unfair report on the prestigious Museum of Modern Art. The report, by freelance journalist David D’Arcy, focused on a legal struggle for control of a painting looted by the Nazis from a Viennese Jewish art…
-
News Power Struggle Wracking Jewish Vigilante Group
A power struggle is tearing apart a right-wing vigilante group that once served as the stander bearer of Jewish militancy in America. The Jewish Defense League, founded in 1968 by late militant rabbi Meir Kahane, has been in a virtual tailspin since 2001, according to experts who monitor extremist groups. It was then that Irv…
-
News Espionage Ruled Out in Case of Bad Art
Is it espionage or — worse — bad art? While officials in the United States are busy grappling with the question of whether Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed sensitive information to Israel and compromised national security, authorities in our neighbor to the north are trying to tamp down speculation that a platoon of goateed and…
-
News Israeli Mobsters Muscling Their Way Into Las Vegas Ecstasy Trade
It’s been half a century since Las Vegas, that glittering Mecca of excess and indulgence in the Nevada desert, was last in the thrall of big-time Jewish mobsters. Even then, the godfathers — men like Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky — were U.S. born and as distinctly American as Vegas itself. But recently, authorities say,…
-
News Religious Overtones Color a Murder in Texas
The victim was a Jew, slaughtered in a Houston apartment, his throat slit so deftly with a 6-inch butterfly knife that he was nearly decapitated. The killer was an Arab, a newly minted religious Muslim and the son of a millionaire Saudi businessman. He had been bailed out of trouble by the Saudi consulate after…
-
News Mystery Shrouds Florida Doc Who Plotted Mosque Bombing
He had it all worked out on paper, meticulously planned down to the smallest detail. The Glock, his favorite semiautomatic pistol, would be in a shoulder holster beneath his Kevlar vest. He’d keep the .38 in an ankle rig, just in case. He even made a note to himself to wipe down the rounds before…
-
News ‘Beautiful Things’: Drug Sting Nabs Chasidic Kingpin
Natan Banda seemed perfectly at ease as he slid his car into a parking space on a shadowy Washington Heights side street last July and shut off the engine. The 31-year-old businessman with addresses in the chasidic communities of Kiryas Joel and Williamsburg didn’t even bother to turn around and look at the man who…
-
News For Ex-Klansman David Duke, No Room at the Inn in Virginia
Jay Patel didn’t pay much attention to the beleaguered looking blonde-haired man in the overcoat who shuffled through the lobby of the Quality Inn last Saturday night. The Indian immigrant, who had come to the United States during the mid-1980s to build a better life for his family, had better things to do that night…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
- 2
Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
- 3
Fast Forward Trump AG nominee Matt Gaetz has left a trail of antisemitic comments
- 4
Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
In Case You Missed It
-
Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
-
News What Mike Huckabee’s ‘Kids Guide to Israel’ says about his views
-
Opinion I’m a rabbi in Columbus. Here’s my answer to the neo-Nazis
-
BINTEL BRIEF My classmate won’t shut up about Israel and is spreading antisemitic conspiracies. What do I do?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
