The director of the National Economic Council, Gary Cohn, “will absolutely” be named chairman of the Federal Reserve if he wants the job, Tom Barrack, a businessman and close friend of President Trump told Bloomberg at a Hamptons polo match on Sunday. Barrack, who chaired Trump’s inauguration committee, said he didn’t think Cohn would want…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Al Jazeera threatened to take legal action to remain in its Jerusalem bureau following Israel’s decision to close it down. The Qatar-based news network, which is based in the same building as Israel’s Government Press Office, criticized the shutdown as “undemocratic” in a statement Monday. “Al Jazeera stresses that it will closely watch the…
Recent public attacks by the far-right on National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster and his views on Israel have caught many observers by surprise, including veteran Republican defense advisor Dov Zakheim, who has spent decades at the intersection of U.S.-Israel military ties. Zakheim, a former undersecretary of defense who is now a senior advisor at…
(JTA) — An early-morning fire caused the evacuation of the Ramah in the Rockies summer camp and destroyed the building housing the camp kitchen, dining hall and administrative offices. No one was hurt in the blaze, which started at 2 a.m. Monday and spread to some nearby trees. The camp’s executive director, Rabbi Eliav Bock,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In honor of the “Jewish day of love,” Tu B’Av, the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization reports that there is increasing public interest in its halachic prenuptial agreement. The Heskem B’Ahava, or Agreement of Love, was introduced in 2015 in order to prevent legal and halachic, or Jewish legal obstacles in the event of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli court revoked the citizenship of an Arab-Israeli man over his terrorism conviction — reportedly for the first time — in a stabbing and car-ramming attack. The Haifa District Court on Sunday agreed to the request of Interior Minister Arye Deri in the case of Alaa Ziad. Ziad seriously injured three Jewish Israelis…
(JTA) — Rabbi Rachel Cowan is no stranger to helping others who are ill or caring for sick loved ones. In 1990 she was one of the co-founders of the Jewish Healing Center, a pioneer in a Jewish healing movement that provides spiritual resources and wisdom to help people deal with the suffering that surrounds…
In a decision handed down Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make public the list of phone calls he had with Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson, who also owns the country’s largest daily newspaper, Israel Hayom. Netanyahu will also have to hand over logs of all his conversations with Amos Regev, who…
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro launched another attack on actor and director Lena Dunham on Friday, with the right-wing pundit slamming her as “wildly unattractive” and comparing her to “Stalin” after she used Twitter to report on two American Airlines employees whom she claimed made comments against transgender people at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport….
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon welcomed to his office last week a right-wing pundit who has claimed that the American left is descended from Nazism. Dinesh D’Souza went to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday to share insights from his new book, “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left,” with White…
(JTA) — A St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery was rededicated nearly six months after more than 150 headstones were toppled and damaged by vandals. Dozens of members of the St. Louis Jewish community and its supporters gathered Sunday at the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery in University City, Missouri, on Sunday to honor those who are buried…
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