(JTA) — On CNN on Tuesday, Don Lemon asked an all-black panel to comment on how they felt about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner receiving a blessing from Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during their visit to Israel to dedicate the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Yosef is under criminal investigation for making a bizarre…
Jared Kushner became “agitated” and “infuriate[d]” when a meeting arranged with a Russian Lawyer at Trump Tower in 2016 ended up focusing on U.S. sanctions rather than promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton, a friend of the Trumps who helped set up the meeting testified to Congress. British music producer Rob Goldstone’s testimony to the…
President Trump urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday to consider prosecuting Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on obstruction of justice charges after Schaaf publicly warned the city in February of an upcoming immigration raid, Politico reported. “I mean, you talk about obstruction of justice, I would recommend that you look into obstruction of justice for…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than a thousand lay and clergy leaders across a range of faiths signed a petition urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to name an anti-Semitism monitor. “Around the world, violent and even lethal attacks have been made on Jews and Jewish institutions; physical harassment of Jews who wear a kippah in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Human Rights Watch sued Israel’s Interior Ministry to prevent its local director from being deported over his past involvement in the BDS movement. The NGO filed the lawsuit in Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday in order to keep its director of Israel/Palestine, Omar Shakir, from being deported after his work permit was…
Aaron Schlossberg, the Manhattan lawyer who achieved instant internet infamy for confronting Spanish-speaking people in a deli, gave $500 to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The donation to Trump was revealed by OpenSecrets.org. Schlossberg erupted at fellow patrons and workers at a midtown Manhattan deli after he overheard them speaking in Spanish. He threatened to call…
A Jewish lawyer in New York was caught berating Spanish-speaking workers at a Manhattan restaurant and threatening to call immigration agents on them in a clip shared widely on social media. Aaron Schlossberg had a meltdown in a Fresh Kitchen in East Midtown Wednesday morning after hearing some of the employees speak Spanish to one…
President Trump has admitted repaying lawyer Michael Cohen up to $250,000 last year in an ethics filing — a payment that may be for the $130,000 deal to keep porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about their alleged affair. Trump detailed a payment to Cohen of more than $100,001 and less than $250,000 that was incurred…
Michael Cohen and Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who represents adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, are battling over whether Avenatti had the right to publish Cohen’s alleged confidential banking information last week, ABC News reported Tuesday. Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, asked a New York federal judge to shut Avenatti out of his court case because…
(JTA) — An Israeli flag flying in downtown Philadelphia at the spot where a Holocaust memorial is under construction was sprayed with red paint. The vandalism, made by a paintball gun with red paint that was found in a nearby trash can, occurred on Tuesday. Staff members of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia were…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Last year, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations updated its secret rules to ban “insults, ad hominem attacks, and name-calling” among member organizations and instituted a special committee to consider complaints in strictest confidence. On May 2, the committee met, in strictest confidence, to hear three complaints. The session,…
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