The man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” who in 2015 became one of the last people to be convicted for crimes in the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews during World War Two, has died aged 96, magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday. Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years for his role as an…
Steve Mnuchin defended Donald Trump’s practice of insulting his opponents — and even people working for him — and giving them derogatory nicknames, Politico reported. In an appearance on “Meet The Press” on NBC Mnuchin attributed Trump’s name-calling habit to the intensity of campaign rallies. The Treasury secretary’s interview came after Trump called Rep. Maxine…
(JTA) — The quirky Jewish physicist would have been proud. A violin once owned by Albert Einstein sold for $516,500 at the New York-based Bonhams auction house on Friday. The instrument, which eportedly was gifted to the scientist in 1933 by Oscar Steger, a member of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, went for over three times…
(JTA) — When Boruch Gorin, a well-known rabbi in Moscow, traveled for the first time from Russia to the United States, a U.S. Customs officer asked him whether he was Russian. “I said, ‘No, I’m not Russian — I’m Jewish,’” Gorin recalled Monday, 27 years after the exchange at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New…
(JTA) — The Trump administration is finishing up its Middle East peace plan and intends to make it public soon, The New York Times reported. According to the report published Sunday, the plan does not call for a two-state solution. The White House must now figure out how to present the plan so that it…
CNBC personality Larry Kudlow is the “frontrunner” to replace Gary Cohn as the chief of President Trump’s National Economic Council, CNBC reported Monday. Cohn quit the White House last week after Trump refused to heed his advice against imposing a steel tariff. Kudlow, who currently hosts the CNBC program “The Kudlow Report,” is a veteran…
(JTA) — Nearly 1,500 prospective immigrants to Israel attended a mega-event to learn about what it takes to make aliyah. The Mega Aliyah Fair held in New York City at John Jay College drew singles, families and retirees looking to prepare themselves for such a big move. The event, which grew out of much smaller Aliyah…
South Korea’s government has called on a Turkish news channel to apologize for reporting that President Moon Jae-in and Ivanka Trump are a “killer couple.” Referring to a photograph taken of the two meeting at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Show TV also referred to Moon and Ivanka as “a millionaire businessman and his wife.” During…
The announcement that one of Goldman Sachs’s two COOs would resign brought some clarity to the question of the bank’s future leadership, after the Wall Street Journal reported that the bank’s current CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, would leave by the end of the year. Goldman announced Monday that one of the firm’s two co-COO’s, Harvey Schwartz,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa and Stanford Medicine signed a cooperation agreement to work together on the future of medicine. The institutions announced Friday that they will cooperate in areas including medical innovation; research in collaboration with Big Data and Machine Learning; cutting-edge drug development; and trauma and emergency preparedness. The…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration sided with the Palestine Liberation Organization in a terrorism lawsuit the Supreme Court may soon consider, drawing an angry rebuke from conservatives, including one of its most steadfast Jewish community defenders, the Zionist Organization of America. In 2015, a federal jury in Manhattan ruled in favor of victims injured…
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