House Speaker Paul Ryan has announced he will not be seeking reelection in November — and the far right couldn’t be happier, the Washington Post reported. Ryan has long been a target of far-right media outlets and “alt-right” social media figures. He has been ridiculed as a “globalist,” a moniker often given to Jews that…
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens hit his mistress and initiated sexual contact without her consent multiple times during their affair, the woman testified under oath to a Missouri House committee. Greitens, the nation’s only Jewish governor, was already charged in February with felony invasion of privacy after being accused of taking a nude photo of the…
Mark Zuckerberg used a cushion to boost his height while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Washingtonian reported. The Facebook CEO, who is 5’ 7”, is not the first person testifying before the Senate to need extra cushions. Hillary Clinton used a small green pillow for lumbar support during her 11-hour testimony about the…
First Daughter and White House senior advisor Ivanka Trump will be traveling to Peru this week with her husband Jared Kushner and other administration officials as her father’s legal and political problems continue to grow. The delegation will be attending the biennial Summit of the Americas, where Trump will unveil an economic improvement program to…
JERUSALEM (JTA) –The mayor of Dublin entered Israel despite instructions to border officials to keep him out of the country. Mícheál Éamonn Mac Donncha, a member of the leftist Sinn Féin party, entered Israel through Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday night and reported later that he had travelled to Ramallah. Donncha is scheduled to attend…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has nearly completed a long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan but is still struggling to decide how and when to roll it out, a senior White House official said, acknowledging that Washington faces a “disconnect” with Palestinians over its planned U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem. The initiative, which had been widely…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a phone call, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned each other about the repercussions of actions related to Iran’s presence in Syria. “Upon an initiative of the Israeli side, a telephone conversation took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Sputnik,…
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the former National Security Council aide who was fired amid allegations that he had inappropriately leaked intelligence, has been hired by the Department of Justice to advise Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Cohen-Watnick was close to the Trump administration’s first National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, but was fired by Flynn’s replacement, Lt. Gen. H.R….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Violent anti-Semitic attacks worldwide directed against Jewish communities, Jewish people and their property decreased by about 9 percent in 2017, according to an annual report. There were 327 cases in 2017 compared to 361 in 2016, according to the annual “Antisemitism Worldwide” report by the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish teen from Ethiopia reportedly has deposited thousands of dollars in order to participate in the final stages of the International Bible Quiz in Israel. The deposit is to insure that Sintayehu Shafrao, 18, returns to Gondar after the competition ends next week on Israel’s Independence Day. Shafrao will represent Ethiopians…
After House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Wednesday that he was retiring, local Republicans began working to ensure that his Wisconsin district did not fall into the hands of Democrats — or a white supremacist who could win the GOP primary. The party is likely looking to avoid a recurrence of what happened in Illinois, when…
אין זײַנע „פֿאָרווערטס“־אַרטיקלען האָט ער קריטיקירט זייער צוגאַנג צום חורבן און צו ייִדישקײט.
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