JERUSALEM (Reuters) – President Trump remains committed and optimistic about achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace, his son-in-law and senior adviser told the sides on Thursday during his first visit to the region since last month’s surge of violence. But there was little to suggest any breakthrough or significant progress toward ending a decades-old conflict is imminent as…
(JTA) — An Israeli man was found shot dead near a Kiev synagogue in what is believed to have been a robbery rather than an anti-Semitic incident. The body of Sachroch Torsonov, 29, of Jerusalem, was found late Wednesday night near the Brodsky Synagogue in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Ynet reported. A suspect…
A top aide to a New York State Senator cited a bizarre “false flag” conspiracy theory claiming that the man whose car-ramming attack killed protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia was a “left wing operative” trying to start a civil war, the news site Kings County Politics reported. Sen. Simcha Felder’s director of operations in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Knesset members will be allowed to visit the Temple Mount one day next week following months of unrest at the holy site. The trial visit was coordinated between the Israel Police and the Prime Minister’s Office, The Times of Israel reported. The visit was announced Wednesday, hours after lawmakers Yehuda Glick of…
(JTA) — Leaders of the Reform movement in the United States called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “issue a swift and clear denunciation” of the demeaning body searches of four female rabbinic students at the Western Wall. The students from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, on Wednesday were asked to lift…
(JTA) — President Trump retweeted a meme of himself “eclipsing” Barack Obama that was posted originally by a Twitter user who had made an anti-Semitic post. The meme, which the president retweeted Thursday morning, features images of Trump and and his Oval Office predecessor. By the fourth image, Trump’s photo completely covers one of Obama…
A Canadian town is getting heat for refusing to remove or cover up a swastika on display in a public park. The swastika, emblazoned on the anchor of a Nazi-er ship recovered about 25 years ago under Canadian shores, sits in a park at the center of Pointe-des-Cascades, a French-speaking town in Quebec. Corey Fleischer,…
Risa Heller, the high-powered New York public relations maven, is no longer representing the Kushner Companies, the family real estate firm of presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner. Heller’s action took place in the aftermath of the Charlottesville, Va. terror attack and the highly-criticized response to it by President Trump. Heller has represented the Kushner firm for…
Ben Jacobs has still not gotten his on-the-record interview with Greg Gianforte, despite a promise from the Montana congressman to meet with the Guardian reporter after having body-slammed him in the run-up to a May special election. “So far, the Congressman has yet to commit to this interview,” the Guardian said in a Wednesday statement….
Lebanese bomb-shell Amanda Hanna is losing her beauty queen title after authorities in the country discovered that she visited Israel using a foreign passport. “After communicating our decision with Lebanon’s Minister of Tourism, he decided that Hanna should be stripped of her title because her visit to Israel violates our country’s laws,” the group running…
Taking a page from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the media for not reporting on his condemnation of racist events in Charlottesville, Virginia. And taking another page from Trump, Netanyahu misrepresented the media’s response. Netanyahu came under fire for his belated response to the events, which were laced with anti-Semitic themes, and…
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