WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump said he would announce his decision on whether and how to stay in the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday. “I will be announcing my decision on the Iran deal tomorrow from the White House at 2:00 pm,” Trump said Monday afternoon on Twitter. Trump has signaled that he would like…
An Indianapolis man avoided for decades reading the letter his mother wrote moments before she entered an Auschwitz gas chamber — but now it is displayed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Frank Grunwald, 85, survived the Holocaust. His mother Vilma and his disabled brother had a different fate. Moments before…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The official White House delegation for the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem will include President Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, as well as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Kushner heads up the team seeking to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks. Other members of his team — Jason Greenblatt, the lead…
“Transparent,” the television series that put Amazon Studios original programming on the map, will end after its upcoming fifth season, its creator, Jill Soloway, said in an interview published on Monday. The ending of the series follows the firing in February of its award-winning star, Jeffrey Tambor, following accusations of sexual misconduct by two people…
President Donald Trump will not travel to Israel for the controversial opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, according to a White House statement released on Monday. Instead, the U.S. delegation to the May 14 event will include U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, as well as Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and daughter Ivanka Trump, who…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League estimated that there were 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets out of the trillions posted on Twitter over a yearlong period. In a report released Monday, the civil rights group’s Center on Extremism said its experts estimated the tweets were sent by 3 million unique users. The study did not control…
(JTA) — The Chicago Jewish Star, an independent family-run newspaper, has published its final edition. The for-profit biweekly, which launched in February 1991, shut down Friday due to the industrywide decline in advertising, its owners said. Douglas Wertheimer, who served as editor, and his wife, Gila, the associate and literary editor, owned the paper. Their…
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin may be worth millions, but even he can’t resist a cheap bottle of wine. On Sunday, he was photographed bringing a $22 bottle to Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s Washington, D.C. home, Daily Mail reported. The bottle reportedly contained a 2015 Arbalest Red Bordeaux Blend. Daily Mail reported that Kushner opened the…
(JTA) — A search is underway for the octogenarian known as the “Nazi Grandma,” after she did not show up for her prison sentence for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck, 89, was sentenced to two years in prison for incitement caused by public Holocaust denial. She was due to show up to the prison in the German…
Marjory Stoneman Douglas seniors attended on Saturday the prom that they’ve been eagerly anticipating since the start of high school — but did so while honoring their four classmates who were slain in the mass shooting at the school in February. “I could barely get myself to come here,” Andrew Pollack, the father of victim…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee approved controversial legislation that would allow Israel’s Parliament to override rulings of the country’s Supreme Court. The Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation by a vote of 11 to 1 on Sunday approved the bill, known as the override power bill, an amendment to Israel’s Basic Law, which would allow…
