(JTA) — A Jewish day school in Toronto was vandalized by graffiti supporting the Palestinian cause and the Gaza terrorist group Hamas. “Free Palestine,” “Long Live Palestine” and “Long Life to the Hamas” were found Tuesday morning on signs in front of the Leo Baeck Day School. The vandalism occurred the previous evening, which was observed as…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ivanka Trump counted herself out as ambassador to the United Nations. “It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley,” President Donald Trump’s daughter and top adviser said Tuesday after Trump spurred…
Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday morning following her resignation, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley called Jared Kushner a “hidden genius that no one understands.” Haley, who announced her resignation alongside President Trump earlier that day, said that it’s not just the president she wants to thank for the experience — she also has a deep…
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is resigning “to take a little time off,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, as she became the latest in a long line of high-profile departures from the administration. Trump said he had accepted Haley’s resignation and would name her successor within two or three weeks….
Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner may be released from prison three months early for “good conduct,” the New York Post reported. He was sentenced to 21 months for sexting with a 15-year-old girl, the Forward reported in November. Weiner reportedly was a model inmate at the Federal Medical Center, a facility in suburban Boston…
(JTA) The “George Soros-is-behind-the-anti-Kavanaugh-protests” seems to be gaining steam, not dying out. On Saturday, Rudy Giuliani — former New York City mayor and current lawyer for President Trump — retweeted a tweet calling George Soros the “anti-Christ.” The tweet also suggested that Soros’ assets should be frozen. The president’s lawyer and former NYC Mayor @RudyGiuliani…
Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum assured Jewish voters on Sunday of his strong relationship with the Jewish community and Israel, the Sun Sentinel reported. At the Century Pines Jewish Center, Gillum said there are people trying to “misconstrue” that relationship. “But they don’t know the stories that I can tell about that relationship,” the Democratic…
(JTA) — William Nordhaus, a Yale University professor with Jewish roots, will share the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics. Paul Romer, a former World Bank chief economist who is now at New York University’s Stern School of Business, also won the prize. The winners, who will split the $1.1 million award equally, were recognized for…
The Facebook executive who spurred internal outrage among the social media giant’s workforce for attending Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate hearing in support of the embattled judge threw him a party in honor of his confirmation onto the Supreme Court, Politico reported. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s head of global policy, and his wife Laura hosted an intimate gathering…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s Health Ministry to explain why it will not allow an Israeli woman to undergo in vitro fertilization using the sperm of a Jewish Brooklyn mathematics professor. Ari Nagel has fathered at least 33 children in the last decade with sperm he donates free of charge….
Following the Senate vote Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Julie Swetnick said in a statement Sunday that she was “appalled” by the actions of some politicians and media pundits, who diminished her claims that he was at the party in high school where she was a victim of gang rape. Swetnick…
