Two years ago, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was set to testify before Congress that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had been covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. But before he could testify, Nisman was found dead in his bathroom with a gunshot to the head….
(JTA) — Condemning an anti-Semitic attack on a Soviet Army monument in Bulgaria, a Russian government official erroneously said her country’s soldiers saved the Jews of Bulgaria from deportation to Nazi camps. The graffiti spray-painted on the Soviet Army monument in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia on Oct. 31 read “100 years Zionist occupation.” Russian…
(JTA) — An Israel advocacy group has relocated a charity event to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to thank him for his support of Israel. The Truth About Israel moved its Feb. 25 benefit from a nearby resort after several charities canceled planned galas at Mar-a-Lago, The Associated Press reported. American Friends of…
The former Trump campaign adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators examining Russia’s role in the 2016 election spoke at a conference in Israel last year with the CEO of an Israeli energy company with ties to a Turkish businessman who has been subpoenaed as part of a separate investigation into former National Security…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Not long ago Yahel Epel, a volunteer with the Israeli American Council, fulfilled her assigned mission: She assembled 200 Jews, half of them Israeli American, in a room in Denver on a Friday evening for a potluck dinner and a Shishi Yisraeli program. Shishi Yisraeli, a program launched by IAC that means…
A lot of people seem to go apoplectic over Sebastian Gorka, the former counter-terrorism aide to President Trump with ties to anti-Semitic, far-right forces in Hungary. But what pushed self-described “20-something struggling journalist” Caleb Ecarma over the edge was the sight of Gorka’s “sh-tty four cylinder Mustang” parked illegally on a sidewalk in Arlington, Virginia….
The New York Daily News released its endorsements in key City Council races on Saturday, and for a contentious seat in the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, the paper reluctantly endorsed a candidate it had previously criticized. Two candidates are facing off on Tuesday: Kalman Yeger, a handpicked protege of outgoing councilman David…
A Georgia city council candidate defended himself against allegations of anti-Semitism last week, saying that his tweets describing Zionists as “cockroaches” and calls for Jews to be removed from the White House do not make him racist. “I’m absolutely not racist in the very least,” Joe Briggs told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Briggs, a 59-year-old engineer…
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is in the midst of a drive to battle corruption and consolidate power in the kingdom, jailing 11 princes, four ministers and dozens of businessmen last week. As David Ignatius wrote in The Washington Post on Sunday, the 32-year-old crown prince has developed a special relationship with the person…
Papa Johns said they don’t want racists eating their pizzas, after a neo-Nazi website claimed on November 3 that the chain served the “official pizza” of the ‘alt-right.’” “We condemn racism in all forms and any and all hate groups that support it,” the company said in a statement on November 6. “We do not…
Anthony Weiner’s first lunch in the big house consisted of pizza, spaghetti and a garden salad, TMZ reported, but for Shabbat dinner, he’ll get a hot dog. “A Weinerrific dinner,” TMZ said. Weiner will be dining in at Federal Medical Center in suburban Devens, Massachusetts. The disgraced ex-congressman is beginning serving a 21-month prison sentence…
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