(JTA) — Jewish groups oppose a Trump administration ruling that says employers who claim providing contraception in their health care coverage violates their religious or moral beliefs do not have to do so. The exceptions to the Affordable Care Act’s promise of no-cost contraceptive coverage were announced on Friday by the Health and Human Services…
Harvey Weinstein is taking an indefinite leave from the Weinstein Company, the film production company said on Friday, adding it will conduct an internal investigation into the New York Times’ report of sexual harassment allegations against one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. The Weinstein Company board of representatives said in a statement that…
(JTA) — Anti-Jewish sentiment and other racism was a big part of the persona of Donald Trump when he starred on “The Apprentice,” one of the producers disclosed. Bill Pruitt told the National Public Radio podcast “Embedded” by Kelly McEvers on Thursday that after the first couple of shows of the reality series that Trump,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) –Two West Bank Palestinians have been arrested in the death of an Israeli man whose body was found in an Arab-Israeli city. The Israel Security Agency announced on Sunday that the two men from the city of Qabatiya, located near Jenin, were arrested a day after the body of Reuven Schmerling, 70, was discovered…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Jewish president of the Rio 2016 Olympic Committee was arrested amid an investigation into a vote-buying scheme to bring the Olympic Games to South America for the first time. Carlos Arthur Nuzman, who also is the president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and an honorary International Olympic Committee member, would…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. A report compiled by former MI6 officer…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Trump said in an interview broadcast on Saturday that he wanted to give a shot at achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians before moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In June Trump signed a temporary order to keep the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, despite a campaign…
(JTA) — Gal Gadot, during her first time as host of “Saturday Night Live,” spoke Hebrew, kissed SNL cast member Kate McKinnon and went on a date with O.J. Simpson. Gadot opened her stint on the show with a monologue in which she switched to Hebrew to address her friends and family back in Israel,…
President Donald Trump, whose presidential campaign was jolted a year ago by the release of a recording in which he boasted about groping women, said on Saturday he was not surprised by sexual harassment allegations against media mogul Harvey Weinstein. The Oscar-winning movie producer said he was taking a leave of absence from his company…
Lisa Bloom is defending her decision to represent Harvey Weinstein in the wake of the Hollywood mogul being accused of decades of sexual harassment. Bloom faced criticism on social media — and even her mother, power lawyer Gloria Allred, spoke out against Bloom — over working with Weinstein. Speaking exclusively to Variety on Friday afternoon,…
A group of rabbis is planning on staging a Sukkot-themed protest against the administration’s immigration policies outside Trump Tower on Monday. T’ruah, the rabbinic human rights organization, will erect a sukkah in front of President Trump’s residence on Monday morning in attempt to demonstrate how the administration’s decision to ban refugees and immigrants from certain…
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