JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al will “immediately” remove any passenger who refuses to sit next to another passenger for any reason, its CEO announced, but not before a major Israeli tech company announced it would no longer fly its employees on the airline. NICE System’s CEO Barak Eilam on Monday announced via posts on social…
(JTA) — A reporter for The Associated Press was prevented from covering Prince William’s visit to the Israeli prime minister’s residence because security guards detained him over questions regarding his ethnic origin. Nebi Qena, a television producer, was held at the entrance to the residence for 45 minutes by security guards who asked about his ethnic…
Israelis are big fans of President Trump — and even local opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu are admitting it. Yair Lapid, chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid party, told the political news site Axios that Trump was on his way to being the most popular American president in Israeli history. Israelis across the political spectrum have…
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt revived allegations that President Trump used to obsessively read Adolf Hitler’s speeches in an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Schmidt said that Trump’s “only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand.” It appears that Schmidt was referencing an allegation dating back to President…
A website projecting white-nationalist claims of “genocide” and a “Holocaust” being perpetrated against white Americans is circulating the internet — more so after being mentioned at an official White House event, hosted by the president. At an event Friday, President Donald Trump tried to flip the conversation from the treatment of migrant children at the…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries. The 5-4 ruling, with the court’s five conservatives in the majority, ends for now a fierce fight in the courts over whether the policy represented an unlawful Muslim ban. Trump can…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused an Israeli broadcaster of “Bolshevik propaganda” for its coverage of its family. Netanyahu took to social media on Monday evening to criticize reports on Hadashot News, after it broadcast for the second night in a row transcripts of recordings between a Netanyahu family friend and a…
Updated, June 29 Non-Israeli Jewish women can seek a divorce in the Israeli rabbinical courts, including in cases where the husband refuses to grant one, under a new law passed by the Knesset. The new government-sponsored law, which will extend the reach of the state-run religious legal bodies beyond the borders of the Jewish state,…
Britain’s Prince William voiced horror over a Nazi death camp exhibit at Israel’s Holocaust memorial in a somber start on Tuesday to the first official British royal visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Wearing a black Jewish skullcap, William, second in line to the throne, laid a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at…
Nussbaum and Wu, a venerable Upper West Side New York City bagel joint, has mysteriously closed its doors. A recent health inspection reported that its hygiene was…not the greatest. A sign was posted to the door declaring alleged owner Shlomi Sela (who is, notably, neither a Nussbaum nor a Wu) to have “failed the community…
President Donald Trump told former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee that more evangelicals than Jews thanked him for the Jerusalem embassy move, Jewish Insider reports. In an interview with Huckabee for Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), Trump discussed the Jewish and evangelical reaction to moving the US’s embassy to Jerusalem. “I tell you what, I get more…
