LUBLIN, Poland (JTA) — When German air force pilots took aerial photographs of western Ukraine in 1941, they did it to help Nazi Germany defeat the Soviet Union in a war that saw the genocide of 6 million Jews. But in a twist of fate, the German government has recently started funding an effort that…
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would prefer to keep Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in his job, after the New York Times reported Rosenstein had suggested secretly recording Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to remove the president from office. “I’m talking with him. We’ve had a good talk. He said he never said…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The Yiddish Forward is producing a series of classic Yiddish jokes presented in Yiddish by Leana Jelen, a young Yiddish-speaking sign-language interpreter. This joke was the favorite of none other than Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis who spent years collecting and studying Jewish jokes. While…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump said ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he favors the two-state solution and that he hopes to reveal his peace plan within four months. “I like the two-state solution,” Trump said, appearing Wednesday with Netanyahu at the United Nations during the world body’s General Assembly….
President Trump endorsed Long Island Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin following a poll showing he is in a tough fight to win reelection. The president tweeted Wednesday that Zeldin, who represents the eastern end of Long Island, has his “Complete and Total Endorsement!” That comes less than a week after a liberal PAC released a poll…
A longtime CBS board member and outspoken defender of former chairman Les Moonves has stepped down from his post, the Associated Press reported. William Cohen, the former Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton, stood behind the television executive after he was accused by several women of sexual misconduct. Moonves resigned after six more women…
House Republicans have looked into issuing a subpoena to the Justice Department for memos penned by former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe to learn if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plotted to secretly record President Trump, Politico reported. The attempt is part of the fallout from a recent New York Times article that claimed Rosenstein…
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani was photographed with a Canadian political candidate who promotes white nationalism and anti-Semitism, The Daily Beast reported. Faith Goldy, a far-right YouTube personality, is running for mayor of Toronto. She tweeted on Tuesday photos of her with the former New York City mayor with the caption: “Just like Giuliani cleaned…
(JTA) — Pope Francis prayed at the site of the former Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania on the 75th anniversary of its liquidation. He offered the prayers on Sunday in the presence of survivors and Jewish community leaders at the site. He also led a mass for more than 100,000 in Kaunaus, the second largest city…
(JTA) — A former SS guard, now 94, will go on trial on charges of complicity in the mass murders of several hundred prisoners at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp. The regional court of Muenster in western Germany on Friday ordered the unnamed man to be tried before a juvenile court beginning on November 6….
The Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in Florida once said that his student government election campaign at Harvard University was thwarted because he was “nailed to the cross” by the student newspaper, which he noted had a Jewish majority on staff. Chris King, an evangelical Christian, narrowly lost a race for president of Harvard’s undergraduate…
