Inauguration weekend was a momentous time for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner — but there was still Shabbat to consider. On Friday night, January 20 — hours after President Trump was inaugurated — Ivanka arranged to have candlesticks waiting for her in the Lincoln Bedroom, according to “Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family,” a book…
A new book on the Trump children claims that numerous friends and colleagues said Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were “bashert” — Yiddish for soulmates. The seventh chapter of “Born Trump,” by Vanity Fair writer Emily Jane Fox, is titled “Bashert,” Jewish Insider reports. Reportedly, when the various associates of the couple were asked separately…
(JTA) — A Syrian man on trial in Berlin for attacking a man wearing a kippah confessed in court to the assault and apologized to the victim. The alleged assailant, identified as a Syrian Palestinian living in Germany since 2015, turned himself in two days after the April 17 attack. He is being tried as a juvenile….
Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticized the growing number of public comparisons between the Trump administration’s new immigration policies and Nazi Germany, saying that such claims are not true because the Nazis were “keeping the Jews from leaving the country.” More than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at border crossings and placed in…
Stephen Miller and a team of far right-wing officials believe the separation of immigrant families at the border is a winning political issue and will open the door to even tougher crackdowns on immigrants. Despite the heartbreaking reports of young children held in stark conditions, Miller hopes to use the crisis to gather enough data…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jerusalem Affairs Minister Zeev Elkin has called on the staff of Britain’s Prince William to correct the itinerary for his upcoming official visit to Israel. Elkin is angry because the Prince’s schedule lists Jerusalem as being in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories.” “United Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years…
ROME (JTA)— Italy’s Jewish community condemned a call by the country’s hardline interior minister to take a census of Italy’s Roma, or Gypsy, population. The Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, said in a statement issued Tuesday that the call by Matteo Salvini to create a “registry” of Roma in Italy recalled the anti-Semitic…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The former Israeli lawmaker charged with espionage for allegedly spying on Israel for Iran said during his interrogation that he was trying to help Israel. Gonen Segev was arrested last month, the Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, said in a statement issued Monday. Israel’s Channel 10 news reported on Monday evening…
They were called “so-called” refugees, told they were alien to American culture and warned against as potential enemies of the United States. This heated anti-refugee rhetoric in America was directed against Jews trying to flee Europe, not Mexicans or Syrians. Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking…
White House policy advisor Stephen Miller has proudly praised the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, calling it “a simple decision.” But members of Miller’s family are furious, harshly criticizing the plan he spearheaded. “Why aren’t people out demonstrating about children being thrown in cages?” Miller’s relative Patti…
The principal of a Massachusetts high school wrote a letter apologizing for the publication of a quote generally attributed to Nazi leaders in the school’s yearbook. Hundreds of copies of the yearbook had been printed and distributed to students at Andover High School in Massachusetts before the school became aware that a senior captioned his…
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