(JTA) — A school district in Pennsylvania is investigating social media posts from students on a senior class trip that mocked exhibits at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The senior class from the Forest Hills School District visited the museum in Washington D.C. last Wednesday as part of its senior class trip. Senior class president Gabe…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli leaders sent messages of support to the United States in the wake of a Texas church shooting that left at least 26 people dead. “Horrified by the savagery in Texas,” Israeli Prime Minister said in a statement that his office also tweeted. “Our hearts are with the victims, their families and…
Anthony Weiner stint in the big house starts today. The disgraced ex-lawmaker is expected to turn himself in for a 21-month sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. He is expected to serve the time at Federal Medical Center Devens, a facility in suburban Boston that also has a sex offender treatment program. Weiner was…
A new investigative scoop says Kremlim-controlled entities sank billions into financial projects set up by Yuri Milner, who also partnered with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner on his family’s real estate ventures. Milner, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, is known for picking out money-spinning projects in social media and the future of space travel. But the…
(JTA) — A Jewish family in suburban Paris has their dog to thank for their escape from a fire that they believe may have been started outside their home by an Islamist neighbor, an anti-racism group said. The family was awakened after midnight on Friday night by the dog’s insistent barking to discover that their front door was…
Jocelyn Wildenstein is at it again. The socialite dubbed ‘Catwoman’ for her bizarro penchant for plastic surgery was busted along with her much-younger boyfriend after they got into a brawl at their home in the Trump World Tower on Manhattan’s East Side, the New York Post reported. Wildenstein, 77, started squabbling with pal Lloyd Klein,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman asked the country’s president to pardon an Israeli soldier convicted of shooting and killing an injured Palestinian terrorist as he lay on the ground. In a letter sent on Sunday to President Reuven Rivlin on behalf of jailed soldier Elor Azaria, Liberman said: “We must put an…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is holding the bodies of five Islamic Jihad terrorists killed in the Gaza terror tunnel that the Israel Defense Forces blew up last week. The IDF said on Sunday that it is holding the bodies, days after Hamas, which controls Gaza, asked to be allowed to search for the missing men….
Mila Kunis may have landed herself in some sippin’ trouble with her pro-choice stance. The actress has sparked calls for a boycott of Jim Beam bourbon, which she endorses, over her campaign of donations to Planned Parenthood in the name of staunch pro-lifer Mike Pence. “It’s not so much a prank as much as I…
(JTA) — The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces raised $53.8 million at a Beverly Hills gala. Some 1,200 people were in attendance at the annual event on Thursday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which raised what organizers said was a “record” amount for Israeli soldiers for needed services such as: academic scholarships to…
(JTA) — The Union for Reform Judaism’s Camp Newman, which was “mostly destroyed” by last month’s northern California forest fires, will have a temporary home for the 2018 summer camp season. The URJ announced Friday that the camp will be housed for summer 2018 at the facilities of California State University Maritime Academy, or Cal Maritime,…
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