A contingent of religious Jews lined up on a highway near Donald Trump’s home at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida to thank him for commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. Trump commuted Rubashkin’s sentence Wednesday night. Rubashkin was serving a 27 year sentence for committing fraud as owner of a major kosher meat processing…
(JTA) — A researcher says Mormons have posthumously baptized the late Lubavitcher rebbe, the grandparents of Carrie Fisher and Steven Spielberg, and hundreds of Holocaust victims, violating an agreement to halt the practice. Helen Radkey, a Salt Lake City-based independent researcher who has been looking into the Mormon practice of posthumous baptisms for two decades,…
(JTA) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz vowed to prioritze “combating anti-Semitism in all its forms” in his first speech since taking office. Kurz, 31, spoke Wednesday amid warnings by several Jewish groups that the rise of Kurz’s coalition partners — the far-right, anti-immigrant Freedom Party — could foster a rise in anti-Semitism. “We will determinedly…
Mark Ein, a Washington DC businessman and tennis enthusiast, is entering the local newspaper scene, purchasing the Washington City Paper, an alternative publication which has come across hard times and was seeking an urgent cash infusion. Ein is an investor and chairman of Kastle Systems building-security company. He also founded the Washington Kastles tennis team….
(JTA) — Pop star Lorde is considering canceling her upcoming concert in Tel Aviv after pro-Palestinian fans in her native New Zealand criticized her. New Zealanders Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs — the former Palestinian and the latter Jewish — wrote an open letter on Thursday on the website The Spinoff saying that Lorde’s scheduled performance…
(JTA) — Montenegro’s foremost politicians joined their president and faith community leaders for the first laying in centuries of a cornerstone for a synagogue in the area that now comprises that Balkan nation. President Philip Vujanovic was joined Tuesday at the synagogue’s construction site by the acting and former mayors of the capital of Podgorica,…
New York Public Radio fired two of its most popular and beloved hosts Thursday after each was recently accused of sexual harassment and bullying, the New York Times reported. Leonard Lopate, 77, and Jonathan Schwartz, 79, had been suspended earlier this month. Each was a fixture of WNYC, the public radio station in New York….
Steve Bannon ripped into Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in a major profile in Vanity Fair. Four months after resigning from his position as Donald Trump’s chief strategist Bannon still relishes picking apart his enemies in the West Wing. “The railhead of all bad decisions is the same railhead: Javanka,” he told Gabriel Sherman. Bannon…
(JTA) — To thank the 65 countries that did not support a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s position on Jerusalem, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley invited her counterparts from those states to a festive reception. Haley extended the invitation Thursday, hours after a resolution condemning Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital passed…
Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, has embarked on a new ad campaign after coming under fire for manufacturing and distributing the powerful opioid. The company, owned by the Sackler family, is arguing in the ads placed in major newspapers, that is is part of the solution, not of the problem. “We manufacture prescription opioids,” one…
Tearful family members paid tribute to Canadian pharmaceutical billionaires and philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman before thousands of people on Thursday, less than a week after news of the couple’s mysterious deaths shocked the nation. The Shermans were found hanging by belts around their necks from a railing beside a pool in the basement of…
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