AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch tax authority is seeking payment from an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor for a pension stipend that she is receiving from Germany for her employment as a child in forced labor. The Tax and Customs Administration demanded in summer that Inge Prenzlau pay a portion of her $156 monthly compensation stipend from…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces is reopening an investigation into the killing in Gaza of a prominent wheelchair-bound Palestinian protester — that it originally suggested was likely not its fault. Ibrahim Abu Thurayya has been a regular presence at protests at Gaza’s border with Israel. Images of him in his wheelchair waving a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld, who published more than 45 books in Hebrew and translated into many languages, has died. Appelfeld, whose most recent book was published three months ago, died early Thursday at the age of 85. Most of Appelfeld’s fiction dealt in some way with the Holocaust, mainly its effect on…
A new study has found that though fake news reached millions of Americans, it had little impact, the New York Times reported. A new study from political scientists at Princeton University, Dartmouth College and the University of Exeter concluded that one in four Americans saw a fake news story on the internet. But even avid…
Steve Bannon called President Donald Trump “a great man” late Wednesday night, the Washington Post reported. The comments came on the heels of a stinging statement issued by Trump about Bannon, the former White House Chief Strategist. In a new book from media journalist Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury,” Bannon is quoted making denigrating comments…
A blockbuster new book by journalist Michael Wolff promises many revelations about the inner workings of the Trump White House. An excerpt published Wednesday in New York magazine reveals more about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s fraught first year in Washington. Here are some of the best stories: Jared Kushner, Chief of Staff? Wolff claims…
Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s wife Kayla made waves last month when she tried to defend her husband from charges of anti-Semitism by saying, “One of our attorneys is a Jew.” The Forward was the first publication to report that Moore’s son Caleb was defended on drug charges in 2016 by an attorney named Richard…
A new book from political journalist Michael Wolff may contain bombshell information about the inner workings of the Trump White House. At the very least, it will have plenty of juicy quotes. “My goal was not to write as an outsider looking in, but to find out what the insiders were really thinking and feeling,”…
A conversation with presidential son-in-law/senior adviser Jared Kushner left a senior European diplomat frightened because of Kushner’s foreign policy views, Politico reported. The report cited a “leading European official who came to town last January looking for answers” about what the newly-elected President Trump’s foreign policy would look like. The diplomat said that Kushner, who…
(JTA) — Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday afternoon reproached a Twitter commenter who accused her of being a Satanist by proudly proclaiming that she is married to … a Jew. We’ll spare you the details, but the former First Daughter had been bantering with various celebs when someone brought up the Church of Satan, which does…
One of the most noteworthy outcomes of the publication of journalist Michael Wolff’s scoop-filled book about the first year of the Trump presidency was the criticism of Breitbart News chairman and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon by the “alt-right” white nationalist movement, which Bannon sought to curate as an audience for his website….
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