(JTA) — A national politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, tweeted that Israeli- and Jewish-linked organizations — along with Israel itself — are on “the third rail of American journalism.” The tweet was in response to a thread by author Sarah Kendzior listing several stories she said were “undercovered.” A few of the stories involved…
Chris Christie accuses Jared Kushner in his forthcoming tell-all book of carrying out a political “hit job” on him as revenge for Christie’s prosecuting his father in 2005, The Guardian reported. In “Let Me Finish,” due out on January 29, Christie blames the presidential son-in-law for having him ousted from Trump’s transition team after the…
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump will assist U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in choosing the new head of the World Bank. Trump, the Jewish daughter of President Donald Trump, had been rumored to be a contender for the position, The New York Times reported. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced last week that he was…
The Justice Department offered a legal opinion that could further restrict online gambling — a move casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has been seeking, The Washington Post reported. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel suggested that it could reverse an Obama-era rule that the Wire Act applied only to sports gambling. The opinion will probably…
Updated 2:55 p.m. The Democratic National Committee is no longer listed as a partner of the Women’s March, the latest prominent organization to abandon the movement ahead of its third annual event on Saturday. The Women’s March has been plagued for nearly a year by accusations of anti-Semitism against its leaders, which has also prompted…
There was a quote in The New York Times’ recent story on Representative Steve King that grabbed headlines, about his wonderment over when terms like “white supremacist” and “white nationalist” became negative, offensive. But that angle had been covered before — he has been vocal about his white nationalist viewpoints since 2006 — so that…
Carol Channing, a Broadway legend who racked up more than 5,000 lifetime performances, including 4,500 as the title character — Dolly Levi — of the musical “Hello, Dolly!” died Tuesday at her California home. She was 97. Her death came after suffering two strokes last year, the New York Times reported. Channing was world famous…
(JTA) — Divers from Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue will begin to search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims. The work, which was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, comes nearly 75 years after tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in October 1944 were shot on the banks of the…
House Democrats are looking to formally punish Representative Steve King for his repeatedly racist commentary, including when he questioned why terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” became offensive, Politico reported. Representative Bobby Rush announced on Monday plans to file a motion to censure King for his years-long “pattern of racist and xenophobic statements.” Representative…
As the Women’s March geared up for its third annual event, it announced on Monday that it had created a steering committee of 32 women — including three Jewish activists. The three are Abby Stein, a transgender activist and former ultra-Orthodox Jew; Yavilah McCoy, the founder of a not-for-profit that provided materials to better educate…
Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory would not answer whether she denounced Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s past remarks about Jewish people while she was a guest on The View Monday morning. Mallory has been under fire for her continued support of Farrakhan, who has a long history of anti-Semitic comments. Support for the Women’s…
