The Democratic Party is gunning for Laura Moser, a Democratic candidate in a Houston-area Congressional primary. Yesterday, in an unusually aggressive attack, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted opposition research against Moser, calling her “a Washington insider who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress.” Moser is a prominent Jewish leader of the anti-Trump…
The Trump administration is accelerating relocation plans of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. After initially announcing the move would take 3-4 years to complete, and then revising the deadline down to 2019, the U.S. is now planning a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new embassy in Jerusalem on May 14 this year. The…
The History Channel tv show “Hunting Hitler” accidentally revealed the face of a Nazi war criminal’s grandson, the New York Daily News reported. During a recap of the interview during the show, footage from the interview was shown that did not blur the man’s face, as it had been when the interview was first shown….
Police are investigating two swastikas carved into the passenger side windows of two cars in a heavily Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn, ABC7 reported. A Lexus and a Ford were found with damage late Wednesday night on a quiet street in Borough Park. The swastikas are being investigated as a possible bias crime. Contact Ari Feldman…
(JTA) — The Trump administration is considering an offer from Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson to pay for at least part of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, four US officials told The Associated Press. Lawyers at the State Department are looking into the legality of accepting private donations to cover some or all of the…
Nicole Schott, a German figure skater, was roundly criticized on Twitter for skating to a song from the score of the famous Holocaust movie “Schindler’s List,” the New York Daily News reported. Dozens of tweets about the performance quickly put the movie’s title on Twitter’s list of trending topics When you realize a German ice…
The noted British stage, screen and voice actor and writer Stephen Fry revealed Friday that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the Jewish Chronicle reported. In a 12-minute YouTube video, Fry announced the diagnosis and said that he learned about the diagnosis after a general check-up prompted by a routine flu shot. He said…
(JTA) — Hundreds of physicians in Iceland and some of Belgium’s top doctors came out in support of a bill proposing to criminalize nonmedical circumcision of boys in the Scandinavian island nation. The 500-odd Icelandic physician who backed the bill that was submitted last month to the Icelandic parliament cited the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki on…
(JTA) — Poland’s ruling party suspended a senator who posted online footage from a Nazi propaganda movie depicting violence against Jews to the sounds of klezmer music. The Law and Justice party suspended Waldemar Bonkowski Thursday over his posting of the video on Facebook earlier this week, amid an acrimonious argument between many Poles and…
(JTA) — KIPP, one of the United States’ largest charter school chains, dismissed its co-founder, Michael Feinberg, over claims that he had sexually abused a student. Feinberg, who is Jewish, was let go after an investigation found credible a claim of the alleged abuse some two decades ago, KIPP’s management wrote in a letter that…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, told a conservative conference that three Jewish liberal philanthropists were funding a socialist takeover of the United States. “Every time in every nation in which this political disease rises to power,” LaPierre told the CPAC conference on Thursday, describing socialism, “its…
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