Judy Rapfogel, the former chief of staff to disgraced onetime New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, is no longer working for Jared Kushner’s real estate company, the New York Daily News reported Monday. Rapfogel worked as a property manager for the Kushner Companies for just over a year. Her husband, William Rapfogel, is the…
The gubernatorial election in Georgia is a ways away, but Republicans vying for the position are already lining up, including one unlikely candidate who has never held political office before — and who just declared himself a Messianic Jew. Marc Allen Urbach, a Marietta man who is a patron of Jewish War Veterans USA, faced…
David Duke was not pleased after the New York Times praised the Forward for its dogged coverage of the rise of anti-Semitism and the “alt-right.” The former Ku Klux Klan leader accused this media organization of being “communist” in a tweet sent after the article appeared. Founded as a (((communist))) newspaper too. You left that…
(JTA) — In an unusual plea, the World Jewish Congress urged international bodies to oppose what it calls “brazen attempts” to whitewash Holocaust crimes in the European Union’s newest member, Croatia. The call came in a 4,000-word position paper published Monday in Tablet magazine by Menachem Rosensaft, the WJC’s general counsel. The article, titled “Croatia…
Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser to Donald Trump, has been a voice of “hard-charging conservatism” since his days as a high school firebrand in Santa Monica, California, the New York Times reported. He has gone from railing against his high school’s janitorial staff to helping pen Trump’s infamous “American carnage” speech. “I can hear Stephen’s…
(JTA) — Amir Peretz, an Israeli former defense minister, was verbally accosted by a Moroccan lawmaker during a visit in Rabat, where an Israeli Druze lawmaker came to Peretz’s defense in Arabic. The unusual incident happened Sunday at the Parliament of Morocco, which Peretz, a Morocco-born Israeli lawmaker for the Zionsit Union party, was visiting…
SYDNEY (JTA) — A Jewish member of the Australian government advertised with taxpayer money perceived examples of anti-Israel bias in the media. Michael Danby paid The Australian Jewish News to publish two half-page ads pointing out treatment differences on two stories reported by the Jerusalem correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sophie McNeill. Danby’s gripe,…
American economist Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize for his contributions in the field of behavioral economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. “In total, Richard Thaler’s contributions have built a bridge between the economic and psychological analyzes of individual decision-making,” the award-giving body said on announcing the 9 million…
An influential daily newspaper in Brazil apologized for publishing a crosswords puzzle that identified “Palestine” as a “territory that suffers Israeli occupation and bombings.” Estado de S. Paulo’s readers received the crosswords puzzle in the Oct. 1 edition. “We apologize for the wrong way the question about Israel and Palestine was addressed,” the newspaper’s editor…
(JTA) — The movie production firm started by Harvey Weinstein fired him following sexual harassment allegations by several women, including Hollywood actress Ashley Judd. The Weinstein Company’s directors announced the co-founder’s dismissal Sunday, citing “new information about misconduct” by Weinstein’s who founded the firm in 2005. Last week, the New York Times published an article alleging…
New students at one of Great Britain’s most elite universities were upset after they received a welcome packet that had a picture of the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp on the cover. Students at Cambridge University’s Emmanuel College received the packets upon moving in. The packets featured information about a welcome service at the…
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