(JTA) — President Trump signed legislation to help victims of the Holocaust and their families reclaim lost property in Poland. The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act, was first introduced in February. The measure requires the State Department to report on the progress of certain European countries toward the return of or restitution for wrongfully…
A top candidate running for governor of Maryland died Thursday morning at a local hospital after suffering a heart attack overnight, The Hill reported. Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz was one of the leading candidates in the Democratic primary. Polls showed him running close to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, another of the leading…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — On the national day of mourning for Holocaust victims in the Netherlands, a major mosque in the kingdom’s capital celebrated the conversion to Islam of a Jewish survivor of that genocide. At least, that’s what Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque said. According to its Facebook, 87-year-old Sal van Coeverden converted on May 4, the Dutch…
(JTA) — A Lithuanian museum housed in a camp where Nazis and collaborators murdered 50,000 Jews is hosting an event for families featuring battle re-enactments. The May 12 event, which the Kas Vyksta news website billed as a “feast,” is scheduled to take place at the Ninth Fort, a 19th century bunker complex that the…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Iranian troops reportedly fired a barrage of 20 missiles at Israel, and Israel responded by bombing Iranian military targets in Syria. The missiles were launched from Syria early Thursday morning. None of them hit Israel. Israel’s missile defense system intercepted four of them, and the rest landed in Syrian territory, according…
The telecommunications company AT&T admitted on Tuesday that it paid Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen $200,000 for “insights” into the Trump administration. The lawyer representing porn star Stormy Daniels, who is suing Cohen, said that AT&T made four payments of $50,000 to Cohen’s company. AT&T admitted that their payments with Cohen, which was to…
This is a developing story. A barrage of 20 rockets was fired Wednesday night from Syria towards Israeli military outposts in the Golan Heights. No injuries were reported. Several rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. The Israeli army is attributing the attack to members of the Quds force of the Iranian…
Anti-Semitic flyers urging people to join a white supremacist book club were recently found in Omaha neighborhoods, the Omaha World Herald reported Tuesday. The flyers contain hate messages against Jewish people, encourage people to join pro-white activist clubs and direct people to a neo-Nazi website. There are 19 of the “book clubs” across the nation,…
It’s been 20 years since Monica Lewinsky’s affair with then-president Bill Clinton went public, but she still faces backlash. The anti-bullying activist took to Twitter on Wednesday to express her frustrations over an unnamed publication inviting her to an event regarding social change, only to rescind the offer when Clinton expressed interest. dear world: please…
Kathy Manning handily won the Democratic primary in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district on Tuesday, earning more than 70% of the vote. She will face off in November against first-term incumbent Rep. Ted Budd to represent Greensboro in Congress. Here’s what you need to know about her: 1. Manning was the first woman to chair…
Shortly after his longtime boss and client Donald Trump took office as president, Michael Cohen contacted health care company Novartis AG for a consulting job and promised access to the White House, ABC News reported Wednesday. Novartis paid him $1.2 million for that access, Eric Althoff, a spokesman for the company, told ABC. Althoff confirmed…
