A prominent Washington, D.C. rabbi broke into a city council meeting on Tuesday to decry officials’ lack of action against anti-Semitism. Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, the leader of the modern Orthodox congregation Ohev Shalom, was outraged over the Council not censuring councilman Trayon White after he claimed last month that a snowstorm was caused by the…
What should we make of the fact that Ivanka Trump has so far not been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller? The first daughter has been in the middle of several incidents that Mueller is probing, including the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russian operatives and the ill-fated damage control effort that followed. Yet Ivanka…
(JTA) — Israel’s Mossad intelligence service broke into the anonymous Tehran building that housed Iran’s secret nuclear files and smuggled half a ton of documents and compact discs back to Israel the same night. The New York Times in an article posted on its website Monday night quoted a senior Israeli official who spoke on…
Updated 7:00 p.m. Tamika Mallory, the co-chair of the Women’s March who was harshly criticized for refusing to condemn the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, is traveling in Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of a delegation of left-wing activists organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights. “To walk where Jesus walked…
Anti-Semitic posters were found Monday at Duke University and elsewhere in the city of Durham, North Carolina. One poster depicted a figure pointing a gun at a stereotypical Jewish man with a beard, long nose and yarmulke who had tentacles wrapped around the earth, the Herald-Sun newspaper reported. “Right of revolution,” the poster says. “Your…
(JTA) — The managers of two historic Jewish cemeteries in Seattle are asking for the city’s help in preventing desecration and vandalism at the sites. The Jewish community says the issue is groups of homeless people who have set up camp in and around the cemeteries. Ari Hoffman, a vice president of Seattle’s Bikur Cholim…
Actress Ashley Judd filed a lawsuit against former film producer Harvey Weinstein for allegedly attempting to destroy her career, the New York Post reported. Judd told ABC News on Monday that because she would not give into Weinstein’s sexual advances, he stopped her from getting work. “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson said last…
Jews love to argue — and the pronunciation over common last names ending in “stein” is a classic example: Should it be pronounced “steen” or “stine”? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made the ongoing debate even more confusing on Tuesday when he announced at a Newseum event that there is no definitively correct way to…
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged that the United States had known about Israel’s cache of stolen documents about Iran’s nuclear program “for a while.” Pompeo told reporters on the airplane traveling from Jordan to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington that he had been aware of the existence of the documents,…
(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…
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