Michael Cohen is asking Judge Kimba Wood to suppress legal documents related to his relationship with Donald Trump in his trial over payments to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. Wood, a federal judge, has certainly seen lighter moments in her time on the bench. In 2010, Wood gave a Jewish defense attorney the day off…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A pledge by 51 student groups at New York University to boycott Israel and two pro-Israel campus organizations is a sign of “animosity” at the private campus, a Jewish student leader said. In the resolution, which was released Monday, the student organizations express their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
President Trump has pardoned former George W. Bush administration official Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was convicted of lying in an investigation of the unmasking of a CIA agent, a source said on Friday, in a step that would underscore Trump’s willingness to grant pardons in high-profile cases. Conservatives have been pushing for a pardon for…
Michael Cohen, an attorney for President Donald Trump, has been under criminal investigation for months, federal prosecutors disclosed in a filing in Manhattan federal court in Friday. Prosecutors said the investigation focuses on Cohen’s “own business dealings” rather than his work as an attorney. The filing came in response to Cohen’s effort to block prosecutors…
A lawyer for President Donald Trump sought in court on Friday to stop U.S. prosecutors from deciding what materials seized from his personal attorney can be used in a probe that began with a referral by investigators looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Monday’s raids of attorney Michael Cohen’s home and office…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Members of a bipartisan U.S. House of Representatives task force on anti-Semitism condemned attacks on survivors of the Florida high school shooting in February, including anti-Semitic images and comparisons of the students to Nazis. “It is shameful for anyone to attack students – especially survivors of gun violence – with anti-Semitic slurs…
Ex-President Jimmy Carter says his push for Middle East Peace played an important role in turning the evangelical voting bloc into the arms of the Republican Party. Carter told the Associated Press, that he, “took a position of wanting to see balance between Israel and the Palestinians.” Carter wasn’t able to bring about a final…
Trump’s Lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, is set to appear before a judge Friday in an effort to stop prosecutors from viewing files taken in a raid on his office and hotel room, according to the New York Times. On Monday, the FBI seized files from Cohen’s home and office in connection with the investigation by…
(JTA) — A Jewish man was killed in his apartment in Paris, where the victim’s twin brother found his lifeless body bound and with a plastic bag covering his face. The brother of Jeremy Dahan called a locksmith to open the door of the apartment in the city’s 12th District, near the eastern suburb of…
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the not-for-profit established by Anne Frank’s father announced it would send all its grant money to Israel via the New Israel Fund, the Times of Israel reported. The move was seen as a retort to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who earlier this month blamed the NIF for destroying the…
Palestinian authorities are reporting that Israeli fire wounded at least 30 protesters, one critically, in the latest round of protests on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. Thousands of protesters amassed at the border for the third Friday in a row. The Palestinians are demanding the right to march to lands in Israel they claim…
אין זײַנע „פֿאָרווערטס“־אַרטיקלען האָט ער קריטיקירט זייער צוגאַנג צום חורבן און צו ייִדישקײט.
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