(JTA) — The Chicago Jewish Star, an independent family-run newspaper, has published its final edition. The for-profit biweekly, which launched in February 1991, shut down Friday due to the industrywide decline in advertising, its owners said. Douglas Wertheimer, who served as editor, and his wife, Gila, the associate and literary editor, owned the paper. Their…
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin may be worth millions, but even he can’t resist a cheap bottle of wine. On Sunday, he was photographed bringing a $22 bottle to Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s Washington, D.C. home, Daily Mail reported. The bottle reportedly contained a 2015 Arbalest Red Bordeaux Blend. Daily Mail reported that Kushner opened the…
(JTA) — A search is underway for the octogenarian known as the “Nazi Grandma,” after she did not show up for her prison sentence for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck, 89, was sentenced to two years in prison for incitement caused by public Holocaust denial. She was due to show up to the prison in the German…
Marjory Stoneman Douglas seniors attended on Saturday the prom that they’ve been eagerly anticipating since the start of high school — but did so while honoring their four classmates who were slain in the mass shooting at the school in February. “I could barely get myself to come here,” Andrew Pollack, the father of victim…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee approved controversial legislation that would allow Israel’s Parliament to override rulings of the country’s Supreme Court. The Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation by a vote of 11 to 1 on Sunday approved the bill, known as the override power bill, an amendment to Israel’s Basic Law, which would allow…
Feelings towards genetic testing service 23andMe vary. Some express excitement over finding out if you are genetically less likely to smell asparagus in your urine. Others are concerned over the company selling customer information for research. Regardless, it is evident that the direct-to-consumer service has hit mainstream success, because it has officially been made into…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Speaking to the Anti-Defamation League, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general at the center of President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with his Justice Department, extolled the rule of law. Rosenstein’s speech to the group, which itself has an adversarial relationship with the Trump administration, was on the surface a paean to Trump’s…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Plans to move a monument in Jersey City commemorating the victims of World War II’s Katyn Forest massacre sparked protests among people of Polish descent living in the United States, as well as Polish politicians and representatives of the Polish-Jewish community. The monument commemorating the massacre created by Polish-American sculptor Andrzej Pitynski, has stood…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican leader of the House Armed Services Committee said President Trump should not walk away from the Iran nuclear deal. President Trump is facing a May 12 deadline on whether to re-impose sanctions against Iran. Texas Congressman Mac Thornberry said on Fox News Sunday it would be a mistake for Trump…
Updated May 7 Israeli private intelligence company Black Cube strongly denied Sunday that it was hired by aides to President Trump to spy on former Obama administration officials. The denial comes a day after the British newspaper The Observer reported that an Israeli intelligence firm had been hired by Trump’s aides to spy on former…
(JTA) — The Republican Party of Virginia accused the Democratic nominee for a congressional race of being a “virulent anti-Semite.” Leslie Cockburn received the Democratic nomination for the 5th Congressional District race on Saturday afternoon, during the Democrat’s convention in Farmville, Virginia. She beat out three other candidates and will face incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Garrett…
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