New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tried to make a joke about Jews not having “rhythm” at a black church on Sunday, the New York Post [reported.](Cuomo’s Jews-Can’t-Dance Joke Falls Flat At Black Church) While thanking Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem for the chance to speak, he strayed suddenly into stereotype territory. “I want you…
Stormy Daniels told ‘60 Minutes’ that Donald Trump told her that she “reminds him of his daughter” — right before they had sex. The adult film star told Anderson Cooper that the billionaire future president meant it as a compliment when he said she was different from other women after they met at a 2006…
One of the most powerful speeches at the March for Our Lives gun control rally in Washington, D.C. was given by 11-year-old Naomi Wadler, who said she was there to represent other African-American women whose experiences with gun violence are often not covered by the media. Wadler, who is African-American and Jewish, had organized a…
Joshua Kushner, the brother of presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, attended the “March for Our Lives” gun control rally in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Joshua Kushner, who has described himself as a “lifelong Democrat,” had already donated $50,000 to help support the march. He attended the march with his girlfriend, supermodel Karlie Kloss, and posted about…
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has been punished by her school after claiming in an online debate that African-American students get worse grades. Amy Wax, a tenured professor, made that claim last September in a recently-resurfaced conversation with Brown University economist Glenn Loury on the online platform Bloggingheads. “Here’s a very…
(JTA) — A pro-Israel non-profit organization is suing a Florida businessman for failing to pay for two 6-foot tall paintings of President Trump and his wife Melania that he bought at a charity auction. Timothy Lane, of the Hong Kong-based Everest Advisors, agreed to pay $21,530 for the paintings at the auction last month at…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Air Force jets attacked a Hamas military site in the southern Gaza Strip after four Palestinians crossed into Israel and set fire to Israeli construction equipment near the border. The equipment is being used to construct a barrier between Israel and Gaza both above ground to stop inflitrators and below ground…
(JTA) — Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House of Representatives minority leader, is leading a congressional delegation visit to Israel and Jordan. The visit, which began on Sunday and ends on Thursday, will focus on “global and regional security and cooperation issues,” according to a statement issued by Pelosi’s office. “There is no greater…
(JTA) — Poland observed a new national holiday to remember Poles who saved Jews during World War II. President Andrzej Duda initiated the National Remembrance Day for Poles Who Saved Jews earlier this month. It was observed on Saturday, March 24. On March 24, 1944, the Germans murdered the Ulma family – Józef, Wiktoria, and…
(JTA) – The burnt and stabbed body of a Holocaust survivor was found in her Paris apartment, in what a watchdog on anti-Semitism said was a case reminiscent of an alleged anti-Semitic hate crime. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, wrote in a statement Sunday that the suspected murder of the 85-year-old…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 20,000 protested against a government plan to deport African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan to a third country in Africa during a rally in Tel Aviv. The rally in Rabin Square was organized by NGOs and Sudanese and Eritrean groups, as well as the Stop the Deportation movement and…
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