(JTA) — A White Plains, New York, man was arrested for allegedly sending and anti-Semitic-laced email to the Greenburgh town supervisor. Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner had been pushing to remove a monument to Confederate soldiers in a private cemetery on the town. At the beginning of the month he backed off his request to…
Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went on a charm offensive in Germany on Thursday, telling the country’s powerful automakers that the world’s biggest social network does not want to compete with them. “I come with very good news. We’re the only company in Silicon Valley that’s not building a car,” Sandberg said to laughter…
(JTA) — A school district in a suburb of St. Louis changed the graduation date of two high schools from a Saturday after complaints from Jewish families with students in the schools. The Parkway School Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to change two high schools’ graduations from Saturday, May 19, 2018, to the Tuesday and…
Anthony Weiner and his soon-to-be ex, Huma Abedin, pleaded with a judge to allow them to keep their divorce case secret. The disgraced ex-lawmaker, whose sexting scandal helped hand the White House to Donald Trump, urged a Manhattan judge to allow the case to be considered as Anonymous vs. Anonymous to frustrate reporters seeking dirt…
Volunteers with a Jewish funeral society discovered dozens of Holocaust survivors in one Florida condo building who had lasted through Hurricane Irma and its aftermath for days without food, water or power, Yeshiva World News reported. The Chesed Shel Emes society had received a request to check on an elderly Jewish woman at the Olympic…
The former executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance announced Wednesday that she was studying to become a Reform rabbi. Elana Maryles Sztokman wrote on her blog that her decision was “about finding a home where I can share values with the people around me, where I don’t have to explain myself all the…
Celebrity news guru Harvey Levin says he knows which political party billionaire Mark Cuban will choose if the Dallas Mavericks owner decides to run for president in 2020 — but he’s not sharing until the time is right. Cuban taped an interview for Levin’s upcoming Fox News show “OBJECTified.” “I’m not going to give the…
Billionaire investor Steve Schwarzman, who served on a business council for President Trump, said he received hundreds of emails calling him a Nazi following the march by white supremacists in Charlottesville. Schwarzman, co-founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, said in a speech Tuesday in New York that Trump’s business councils, including the Strategic and…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Julia Lipnitskaia, an Olympic gold medalist in figure skating from Russia, was treated for an eating disorder at a clinic in Israel. Lipnitskaia, who earned her medal in the team skating event at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, checked into the clinic in January and remained for three months, The Associated Press…
Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of two Republicans in Congress, said he supports President Trump’s decision to kill DACA — but is open to Congress passing a similar measure. “If the Obama administration wanted to implement the DACA program, it should have made the case to Congress and try to pass its proposal into law,” Zeldin…
RefuseFascism.org, the anti-Trump organization that has been active since the election, has smeared Ben Shapiro as a “white supremacist” and “fascist thug” ahead of the right-wing pundit’s speech at U.C. Berkeley scheduled for later this month. “Fascist thug & white supremacist Ben Shapiro is coming to UC Berkeley – The issue is not ‘Free Speech.’…
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