(JTA) — Charles Krauthammer, a fierce defender of Israel and one of the most widely read conservative columnists of his generation, has died. He was 68. The Pulitizer Prize-winner wrote earlier this month that he had an aggressive form of cancer and had weeks to live. The letter appeared on the websites of both of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas paid the family of an 8-month-old baby to say she died during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops, a family member said. Mahmoud Omar, 20, told Israeli investigators that his 8-month-old cousin Layla al-Ghandour died of a blood disease, the same disease the baby’s brother died from a year earlier. He said…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, was charged on Thursday with fraud over the alleged misuse of state funds in ordering catered meals at their official residence, the Justice Ministry said. The indictment charged that Netanyahu, along with a government employee, fraudulently obtained more than $100,000 for hundreds of meals supplied by restaurants, bypassing…
English soccer fans were singing an anti-Semitic song and throwing Nazi salutes in a local pub before England’s World Cup match in Volgograd, where more than a million Soviet soldiers died to stop the German blitzkrieg, The Telegraph reported. In a video circulating social media on Wednesday, a group of men are singing a racially…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Michael Bloomberg will spend $80 million in an effort to help elect Democrats in the midterm elections. The Jewish media mogul and former New York City mayor said his goal is to gain Democratic control of the House of Representatives, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. “I’ve never thought that…
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and longtime fixer, has complained to friends about his growing legal fees, lamenting his frustration over his former boss not paying them off, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Cohen is currently under investigation for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations, related to a $130,000 payment…
Donald Trump reportedly told a dinner for supporters of his fundraising group, America First, that back and forth on the Jerusalem embassy cost made him look “cheap,” Axios reports. At the dinner, held at Trump International Hotel, Trump spoke for about 40 minutes on various topics, including the embassy. He said initially, “They told me…
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus had some scathing remarks for First Lady Melania Trump on Twitter, referencing President Trump’s family separation policy. After a visit with the king and queen of Spain, Melania tweeted a photo of her, Trump, and the monarchs, captioning it, “A great visit with the King & Queen of Spain at the @WhiteHouse…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, used his resignation letter from the Republican National Committee’s Finance Committee to speak out against his former boss’ family separation policy, sources close to the RNC told ABC News. “As the son of a Polish holocaust survivor, the images and sounds of this family separation policy is heart…
Democratic megadonor Haim Saban reprimanded senators from his party who signed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s letter calling for increased humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, The Intercept reported Wednesday. Saban, an Israeli-American media mogul and one of the top donors to the Democratic Party, wrote a stern email to six of the 13 senators who signed…
Is Stephen Miller’s proclivity to stir up controversy and “trigger libs” behind the Trump administration’s policy to separate families? An Atlantic profile last month dug into his propensity for inciting controversy and the role that may play in family separation policy. In a previous interview with the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, Miller said that he had…
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