(JTA) — WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum will leave the company over conflicts with Facebook, which bought the messaging service four years ago. Koum, a Jewish billionaire originally from Ukraine, reportedly also will leave Facebook’s board of directors, according to The Washington Post, which cited people familiar with internal discussions. His date of departure has not been…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Donald Trump reportedly is considering an Israeli request to allow convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard to come to Israel. Israeli media quoted officials as saying that the president could potentially bring Pollard to Israel for the dedication of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem later this month. It is not known…
President Trump’s ex-personal doctor of over 35 years spoke out on Tuesday about feeling “raped, frightened and sad” when Trump’s bodyguard and a lawyer barged into his office and seized the president’s medical records, NBC News reported. The alleged incident took place in February 2017, days after Dr. Harold Bornstein told a newspaper that he…
Alan Grayson, the controversial Florida Democrat who left Congress to launch a failed Senate bid, wants his old job back — and he’s taking on a fellow Democrat to get it. The volatile legislator, who threatened to have police arrest a Politico reporter who was asking him about domestic abuse allegations, will challenge incumbent Rep. Darren…
A British man who previously served in the IDF was sentenced to a minimum of 24 years in jail for strangling his daughter to death at their home, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Robert Peters had reportedly researched child killers online before using a dressing gown cord to murder seven-year-old Sophia at the family’s home in…
Panic struck a Manhattan movie theatre on Sunday night when a man burst into the room yelling about guns, New York Post reported. Anthony Powell, 34, allegedly screamed, “people with guns were killing people in the theater,” when he entered the Regal Union Square Movie Stadium around 11:30 pm. One frightened man reportedly jumped from…
The father of Meadow Pollack, the 18-year-old who was killed in the February 14 Parkland shooting, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the high school security officer who stayed inside while the mass murder of 17 students and teachers occurred, NBC News reported. In his lawsuit filed Monday in Broward Circuit Court, Andrew Pollack…
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump about Jared Kushner’s efforts to open a secret backchannel to the Russians during the presidential transition, the New York Times reported yesterday. Mueller’s list, leaked to the Times, includes dozens of questions for the president. Only one of the questions mentions Kushner by name. But it…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump proclaimed May Jewish Heritage Month. In his statement issued by the White House on Monday, Trump said that “Jewish Americans have helped guide the moral character of our Nation.” President George W. Bush first proclaimed May Jewish Heritage Month in 2006, and it has been proclaimed annually by the sitting president ever since….
Starbucks has dropped the Anti-Defamation League as a participant in its racial sensitivity training following pressure from Women’s March activists, POLITICO reported. The training, scheduled for May 29, was announced after two black men were arrested for loitering in a Philadelphia Starbucks. Videos of the incident were widely shared on social media, leading to criticism…
(JTA) — An Islamist party in Tunisia is backing a Jewish candidate. Simon Slama, the only Jewish candidate, is running in Tunisia’s municipal elections for the Islamist Ennahdha Party. The elections are scheduled to be held on May 6. Slama, a sewing machine salesman and repairman, is running in the coastal town of Monastir, the…
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