David Shulkin, the Veterans Affairs Secretary, only meets with a few select staff members he trusts. His faith in his senior staff has eroded so much, there is now an armed guard outside his executive office, the Washington Post reported. Shulkin has by many accounts notched several wins at the VA during the first year…
(JTA) — Russia will receive its first Jewish university next month, the institution’s dean said. Modeled after Yeshiva University in the United States, The Jewish University of Moscow is a private institution with a student body of 200 whose budget comes mostly from donors and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, dean Alexander Lebedev…
Rep. Danny Davis issued a statement on Thursday condemning the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, days after an interview in which he said he had “no problems” with the preacher who has been accused of anti-Semitism for decades. Davis, a Democrat who has represented parts of Chicago since 1997, told the conservative Daily Caller…
Israeli psychologists who specialize in dealing with trauma have traveled to Parkland, Florida to assist organizations helping survivors of the mass shooting at a local high school cope with its psychological effects. “It’s not as if Israel knows anything America doesn’t,” psychologist Alan Cohen told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “But we have a lot more practical…
President Trump took a moment during Thursday’s cabinet meeting to bid farewell to his departing economic adviser Gary Cohn, but did so using language sometimes accused of having anti-Semitic characteristics. “He’s been terrific,” Trump said of Cohn, who is Jewish. “He may be a globalist, but I still like him. He’s seriously globalist, there’s no…
(JTA) — For a man to gallantly open a door for a female stranger is neither common nor universally appreciated in Ukraine, where gender salary gaps used to be illegal and female tank crews fought the Nazis. Throughout the former Soviet Union, the communist revolution instituted far-reaching gender equality at a time when women in…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House will convene a meeting next week of “stakeholders” to improve life in the Gaza Strip, said the top Trump administration Middle East peace negotiator. “In response to the burgeoning humanitarian situation in Gaza, key countries and stakeholders are preparing to act: There was a meeting in Cairo on Thursday,…
A regional chapter of Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday that it was cancelling a planned speech by Women’s March co-president Tamika D. Mallory amid a growing controversy over her ties to the anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan. Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, which represents the states of Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Hawaii, issued a statement announcing…
A Pittsburgh freelancer hid her profile subject’s swastika tattoo and connections to white supremacist circles, according to a statement on the article issued by its editor. The article, by Kim Rutt, was published by the Pittsburgh City Paper, an alternative weekly. Rutt profiled several female tattoo artists in Pittsburgh for the weekly’s first cover story…
Gary Cohn’s decision to resign from the Trump administration over disagreements on trade policy was viewed as a hit to President Trump’s relationship with the business wing of the Republican Party. But it could also hurt Trump’s pocketbook. Cohn, who left his job at Goldman Sachs in New York to serve as the director of…
NICE, France (JTA) — A French judge preparing a trial of Arab teenagers who allegedly assaulted a Jewish youth outside a synagogue omitted hate crime charges from a draft indictment, a watchdog group said. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Ant-Semitism, or BNVCA, protested in a statement on Tuesday the omission from the indictment of…
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