A refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn — a close confidant of Donald Trump — received a government waiver to avoid spending millions to comply with government regulations, Reuters reported. Icahn was a special adviser to the president before stepping down last year amid questions over ethics breaches related to his activity in the White…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers in two separate incidents on the border with Gaza. The incidents, all involving the Gaza border fence, took place on Sunday evening. Two Palestinians trying to damage the security fence and infiltrate into Israel were fired upon by Israeli soldiers, killing one. The second was…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Overnight airstrikes targeted military bases in northern Syria. At least 26 people are reported dead, mostly Iranian pro-Syrian government fighters, in the Sunday night attacks on the military bases in Hama and Aleppo, according to reports citing the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least 60 fighters were wounded and some…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump spoke by phone about the threat from Iran. The two leaders spoke on Saturday, according to a readout of the conversation released Sunday by the White House. They discussed the “threats and challenges facing the Middle East region, especially the problems posed by…
Officials at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs are furious over the involvement of two Mar-a-Lago regulars in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs $16 billion digital transformation, POLITICO reported. Dr. Bruce Moskowitz is a Florida internist. Ike Perlmutter is an Israeli-American businessman and the chairman of Marvel Entertainment. Both have been involved in recent calls with…
The top challenger to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her upcoming re-election campaign is a candidate who has repeatedly espoused anti-Semitism and has been endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, a poll found last week. The survey, conducted by SurveyUSA, found Feinstein leading the field with 39%. In second place is Republican…
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia reportedly harshly criticized Palestinian leadership during a meeting with American Jewish organizations in New York last month, slamming Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for rejecting peace offers. “In the last several decades the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after the other and rejected all the peace proposals it…
Federal prosecutors seized up to 16 cell phones when they raided the home, office and hotel room of Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen, the New York Post reported Friday. During a hearing going over the plan of returning seized materials to Cohen and his lawyers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas McKay told the court that…
Leaders at an United States Army base in Kentucky are investigating why chaplains fired the longstanding Jewish lay leaders there, Army Times reported Saturday. Jeanette Mize and her husband Curt have led the Jewish community at Fort Campbell as volunteers since 1999. They were allegedly fired without cause under the orders of the top chaplains…
(JTA) — An electronic road sign in central Arizona was hacked to display an anti-Semitic message. The sign in Pinal County early on Friday morning was altered to read “Hail Hitler,” which though spelled incorrectly, is believed to refer to the Nazi salute, the Arizona Republic reported. The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office received the first…
(JTA) — B’nai Brith Canada has called on the country’s tax authority to revoke the registration of a pro-Palestinian charity after alleging that it is promoting a book containing anti-Semitic content. A cross-Canada book tour by Palestinian Anglican cleric Naim Ateek, to promote his new book “A Palestinian Theology of Justice,” is being promoted by…
