At this time last year, Steven Mnuchin was best known as the producer of critically reviled films like “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad.” But now, he’s in the money — literally. Mnuchin, now the Treasury Secretary, toured the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on Wednesday along with his wife Louise Linton…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Genesis Foundation awarded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg its first lifetime achievement award. The foundation, which sponsors the annual $1 million Genesis Prize known as the “Jewish Nobel,” in its announcement Wednesday praised Ginsburg’s “groundbreaking legal work in the field of civil liberties and women’s rights.” The five recipients of…
(JTA) — Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld criticized Germany for welcoming Muslim refugees, saying the country should not take in the Jews’ “worst enemies” given its responsibility for the Holocaust. Lagerfeld, 80, the chief designer at the Chanel fashion house, made the comments Saturday on a French television talk show. “One cannot – even if there…
(JTA) JERUSALEM (www.jta.org) — Israel offered humanitarian assistance to the victims of the earthquake that killed hundreds of people in Iran and Iraq, but was turned down. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told American Jewish leaders gathered in Los Angeles Tuesday that was motivated to direct the aid by photographs of the devastation caused by…
Military leaders in Zimbabwe have proclaimed that they are in control of the the southern African nation and that longtime strongman Robert G. Mugabe is safe and under their protection, a euphemism for house arrest. Here is our report on an Israeli company credited with helping him rig the most recent election there. You could…
The chairman of an Israeli aid group was attacked by a lion while on safari in Africa, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the head of ZAKA, who was in South Africa to train search and rescue volunteers, was pounced on by a lioness as he walked next to her. “It was absolutely terrifying, for…
A Jewish teenager was stabbed in an attack by four assailants as he stood with several female friends in a beloved park in a wealthy north London suburb, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The teenager, 16, was attacked around 9:30 PM Tuesday evening. He and four friends were standing on Primrose Hill, a park in a…
The Alabama Senate race, already rocked by allegations of pedophilia, just got even crazier, thanks to a mysterious robocaller going by the name “Bernie Bernstein.” WKRG, a TV station in Mobile, Alabama, reported Tuesday that at least one person had received a robocall from “Bernstein,” who claimed to be a Washington Post reporter willing to…
More than 40 Holocaust survivors who were never able to celebrate their bar or bat mitzvahs finally did so last week — at the Western Wall. The event, coordinated by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Israel’s Office for Social Equality, was welcomed by participants who never got…
A Reform synagogue in suburban London is in possession of a mysterious amulet — and the synagogue is looking for the public’s help in deciphering it. Barry Hyman, president of Radlett Reform Synagogue, wrote in the Jewish Chronicle about a graphic of unknown age and origin that was “dumped anonymously in the shul.” It is…
In the midst of an intense House Judiciary Committee grilling of Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his contacts with Russians, Rep. Steve Cohen derailed the interrogation to ask about drugs. “You said one time that good people don’t smoke marijuana,” Cohen said, referring to statements Sessions made as a Senator last year. Cohen, a prominent…
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