Allegations that Fox News colluded with the Trump White House to promote conspiracy theories about the death of a former Democratic National Committee staffer could have global implications, with British media regulators reportedly looking into the matter as they review parent company News Corp.’s bid to take full control of the British TV company Sky….
The billionaire businessmen and political megadonors Charles and David Koch both invested in now-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s RatPac-Dune Entertainment in 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The production company has produced recent hits like “Wonder Woman,” “Dunkirk,” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” Bill Gates has also quietly invested in the company. Mnuchin, the…
President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, owes New York nearly $40,000 in unpaid taxes, the Daily News reported Tuesday. Cohen and his wife own a number of New York City taxi medallions. The unpaid taxes are reportedly fees that taxi medallion owners are supposed to hand over to the state’s Department of Transportation. Cohen…
(JTA) — Amid outrage in France over a suspected terrorist attack against police officers, the CRIF umbrella group of French Jews suggested the incident highlights indifference to anti-Semitic violence. CRIF on Wednesday posted on Facebook a tongue-in-cheek statement, questioning whether authorities would place under psychiatric evaluation a suspect who fled after ramming six police officers with his…
(JTA) — A French memorial to young victims of the Holocaust was vandalized. The memorial, a plaque bearing the names of 44 children and 7 adults who were deported in 1944 from the Children’s Home of Izieu in eastern France, was knocked off its base in a public garden in the city of Lyon and…
(JTA) — The San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has pledged $1.3 million to Stanford Chabad for the construction of a Chabad house near the Stanford University campus. The new Stanford Jewish center will be named Taube Chabad House, Taube Philanthropies announced on Tuesday. The campus already is home to the Taube Center for Jewish Studies and…
(JTA) — Camp Ramah in the Rockies relocated to the nearby JCC Ranch Camp, after its facilities were evacuated following a fire that destroyed the building housing the camp kitchen, dining hall and administrative offices. The entire camp moved to its new home in the JCC Ranch Camp in Elbert, Colorado, whose summer season has…
(JTA) — More than 200 rabbis from the liberal movements of American Judaism signed a letter in opposition to Israel’s travel ban on leaders of the BDS movement against Israel. The letter released on Wednesday by the Rabbis Against Israel’s Travel Ban initiative, is in response to the incident last month in which Rabbi Alissa…
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller is reportedly under consideration to be President Trump’s next communications director, a post still vacant since the firing of Anthony Scaramucci — and in a Fox News interview on Tuesday, Miller may have proved why he is worthy of the job. Miller, who has been increasingly visible in the…
Josh Malina, the Jewish actor who rose to celebrity on the “West Wing,” has taken a swipe at Trump voters, in a missive that might have been considered a gaffe in the Bartlet White House. If you’re one of the stupid cocks who voted for this stupid cock, do you not feel like a stupid…
White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka said in an interview Tuesday that the reason President Trump has still not commented about the bombing of a mosque in Minnesota over the weekend is because the investigation hasn’t been finalized — leaving open the possibility that the attack could have been “propagated by the left.” In an…
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