(JTA) — Three rabbis and three Christian clergymen have called on a Republican candidate for governor to apologize for making derogatory statements about billionaire businessman George Soros while noting he is a “Hungarian Jew.” State Sen. Scott Wagner at a campaign event during the Pittstown Tomato Festival a day after the deadly Charlottesville rally confronted…
A senior aide to President Trump asked Vladimir Putin’s press secretary for help sealing a business deal in the middle of the 2016 Republican primary process, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing congressional documents. Longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen emailed Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskin to seek the government’s help in finalizing plans for a Trump…
(JTA) — An Israeli government committee will propose making it easier for non-Jews who have Jewish ancestry or members of communities following Jewish practices to visit and study in Israel. The Diaspora Affairs Ministry panel will also recommend establishing cultural centers abroad to allow members of these communities to learn more about Judaism and Israel…
Rachel Zabar has gone from serving up caviar at her family’s famous Upper West Side grocery store to selling vintage clothes to the stars. That’s according to a Sunday profile in The New York Times that takes a look at the Jewish grocery store heiress’ masterful move into the competitive world of second-hand clothes dealing….
(JTA) — A Washington-area Catholic priest who left his post because of revelations of his Ku Klux Klan past never apologized or paid court-ordered restitution to two Jewish institutions for burning crosses on their property. Bill Aitcheson, a priest at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Fairfax City, Virginia, acknowledged his college days in the…
A Russian-Jewish business associate of President Trump promised in a 2015 email to another Trump aide that he would engineer a business deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin that “will get Donald elected.” Felix Sater, a broker who had previously worked on real estate and licensing deals for the Trump Organization, emailed longtime Trump lawyer…
A swastika was found written in marker on the entrance to an Upper West Side church last Wednesday, in an incident that the New York Police Department is investigating as a hate crime. The Nazi insignia was discovered at the entrance to St. Paul and St. Andrew Church, a United Methodist institution, by two pastors…
David Shulkin is winning plaudits from across the aisle for his work remaking the Veterans Affairs administration and revamping healthcare for former soldiers. “What motivates me and what motivates Dr. Shulkin is the same, to provide the best care to veterans,” Tennessee Republican representative Phil Roe told Politico. “I don’t know whether he’s a Republican…
After Hurricane Harvey put Houston and much of east Texas underwater, Americans are wondering what they can do to help. Here’s a short list of national charities that are on the ground in the disaster zone and that have been highly-rated by Charity Navigator, a Web site that assesses how well charities are run. Houston…
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are not having much fun in Washington D.C., according to a new Vanity Fair feature out over the weekend. Distant from their old friends, the power couple has found themselves surrounded by enemies, with far less power than they expected. In one devastating anecdote from a high-wattage conference of leading…
The internet crackdown on white supremacists continues, with the prominent neo-Nazi website Stormfront shuttering this weekend. Stormfront.org’s domain provider Network Solutions LLC has placed a hold on the site. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the site’s closure comes after the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law wrote a letter arguing that Stormfront was…
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