One of the most notable exchanges in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony was when a senator asked him about his sleeping arrangements to make a point about user privacy. “Mr. Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?” asked Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois….
(JTA) — Robert Mueller is reportedly investigating a payment to President Donald Trump’s foundation from a Ukrainian steel magnate who, among other things, has supported the resurgence of the country’s Jewish community. Mueller, the special counsel leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, is looking into a $150,000 donation made by Viktor…
(JTA) — The FBI’s raid on the offices of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has unsettled the White House, the markets — and other men named Michael Cohen. Twitter users who share the common Jewish moniker with Trump’s attorney were simultaneously amused and abashed as news of their namesake’s legal jeopardy broke around the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Alan Dershowitz, the famed constitutional lawyer, is dining with President Trump as the president faces new risk in a federal probe into his campaign. “Dershowitz has been at the White House for part of today as Trump seeks his input, and he’s supposed to have dinner with the president tonight, per White…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In congressional testimony, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted that the popular social media application would have the tools to stop hate speech before it spreads within the next decade. Zuckerberg, speaking Tuesday to senators concerned in part about Facebook’s susceptibility to foreign powers who would use the service to meddle in American…
The Zionist Organization of America took credit on Tuesday for convincing the Al Jazeera network to drop a series about American pro-Israel advocacy groups, which the ZOA deemed to be a “viciously anti-Semitic” project, The Times Of Israel reported. Morton Klein, the organization’s president, reportedly met with Qatar’s emir and the Doha-based network’s officials in…
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told U.S. senators on Tuesday that the company was attempting to change in light of recent criticism, as he attempted to forestall any strict legislation aimed at the world’s largest social network. The 33-year-old internet mogul was grilled in a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Commerce and Judiciary…
Newly released court documents suggest that a Jewish Mixed Martial Arts fighter was murdered in a botched drug-related robbery, WPTV reported. Teenagers Summer Church, Jace Swinton, and Roberto Ortiz were indicted by a grand jury last year for shooting and killing then 25-year-old Aaron Rajman. The murder took place in Rajman’s Florida apartment, which he…
(JTA) — A swastika and the phrase “dirty Jew” was painted on the entrance to a Jewish elementary school in Paris. The graffiti appeared Monday at the Gustave Leven school in the French capital’s 16th district, the French anti-Semitism watchdog National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, reported. The school is a part of…
UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen said he’s the best quarterback in the 2018 NFL Draft and spoke to some past criticisms in a wide-ranging interview with ESPN published on Tuesday. Rosen was clear when asked who he thinks the draft’s top signal-caller is. “I’m the best QB in the draft,” he said. “A lot of guys…
(JTA) — The president of the largest Jewish movement in the United States called on Israel to “take all necessary and effective precautions” to prevent harm to civilians during the Gaza border protests. Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism said in a statement issued Monday that the “ongoing escalation on the Gazan…
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