The Missouri attorney general has opened an investigation into MO Gov. Eric Greitens’ former charity, Talking Points Memo reported. Greitens was indicted last week on a felony invasion of privacy charge relating to a sexually explicit photograph he took of a woman with whom he was having an affair. Greitens left the not-for-profit, The Mission…
Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin is in hot water over a trip to Europe in which the government picked up the tab for his wife. The rather minor incident ballooned into a major affair after an internal VA report found that Shulkin’s advisers tried to doctor emails in order to hide information about the trip….
The list of grand jury subpoenas requested by special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly includes 10 Trump former and current advisers. According to the Axios report, Mueller is asking to obtain all communications of close Trump confidants, including his lawyer Michael Cohen. The subpoenas are aimed at receiving communications Cohen and other Trump advisers have held…
(JTA) — The Jewish Agency has established an institute to prepare Israeli emissaries for their work. The Shlichut Institute, which will be launched on Wednesday in New York, will provide the shlichim, or emissaries with training, tools and technology to help them before they leave for their service, during their service and after. Natan Sharansky,…
(JTA) — Three years ago, Shaul de Malach had no problem joining fellow educators from his country on a trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland. Like tens of thousands of Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora who go on commemorative missions each year, de Malach “didn’t exactly relish the thought of visiting Auschwitz,”…
(JTA) — The head of Iran’s Wrestling Federation resigned over the country’s policy of forcing its athletes to forfeit matches against Israeli opponents. Rasoul Khadem, a former Olympic gold and bronze medalist and two-time world champion, reportedly announced his resignation last week, though reports say that it was rejected by the Ministry of Sport and…
Attempting to head off signs of weakening Democratic and progressive support for Israel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee kicked off its annual policy conference with a pledge to welcome liberals to the pro-Israel lobby’s proverbial “big tent.” “We need to embrace and involve many more Jewish Americans,” AIPAC president Mort Fridman said at the…
A public middle school teacher in Florida has been secretly hosting a white supremacist podcast under a false name, HuffPost reported Saturday. Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School, hosts a podcast called “Unapologetic,” where she bragged about teaching her ideology to students and tricking the school’s principal into disregarding…
Updated, 6:30 p.m. An Illinois congressman confirmed in an interview Sunday that he has a relationship with the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and had “no problems” with him. Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat who represents Farrakhan’s home base of Chicago, told the Daily Caller that he had known Farrakhan “for years and…
The home of a concentration camp tour guide was vandalized in Krakow on Friday with a Star of David and a Polish nationalist message, as public tensions increase over a new law banning certain language about the Holocaust. The Italian-born guide, Diego Audero Bottero, told Polsat Media that he found the star and the messages…
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election has reportedly expanded to look at the possible influence played during the campaign by the United Arab Emirates — and a Jewish top donor to the Trump campaign may be connected. The New York Times reported Saturday Mueller’s team is looking closely at…
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