Nearly 500 people, most of them Jewish studies scholars, have signed a petition supporting the David Myers, the head of the Center for Jewish History, amid calls for his ouster over ties to liberal groups. The petition comes days after public relations executives Ronn Torossian and Hank Scheinkopf launched a campaign against Myers over his…
Ta-Nehisi Coates slammed Bernie Sanders for being far too focused on white working-class voters — at the expense of blacks and other racial minorities. In an essay for The Atlantic, titled “Donald Trump Is the First White President,” Coates faulted Sanders for using “alarming” and “shocking” language on race, class and the issue of political…
(JTA) — A swastika was carved into the front door of a Jewish couple in Colorado twice in two days. Police do not have any suspects in the incidents from Tuesday and Wednesday in Lafayette, the Boulder Daily Camera reported. Will and Emma Rosenbaum moved from New York City a year ago because it was…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and President Trump have agreed to work toward a permanent repeal of the debt ceiling, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, one day after the Republican president struck another deal with Democrats. Citing three people familiar with the decision, the Post said Trump and Schumer, along with House of Representatives…
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Amy Coney Barrett took what critics feel was an anti-Catholic undertone when Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic senator in California, questioned the nominee’s “dogma.” Feinstein sharply quizzed Barrett, who was nominated by President Trump to serve on a federal appeals court. “The dogma lives loudly within you,” Feinstein said. “And…
Mike Huckabee hit back at charges of racism against President Trump by saying that he allowed Jews to join his Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida. “You know, when people say he’s this, but look at his history, or when people say he’s a racist, he’s not,” said the ex-Arkansas governor on ABC’s “The View.” “He’s…
A St. Louis woman donated her kidney to her congregation’s beloved cantor, the St. Louis Jewish Light reported. Lynnsie Balk Kantor, a real estate agent, heard in February that Leon Lissek, hazan at the Conservative synagogue B’nai Amoona for over 30 years, needed a kidney. Lissek had led prayers at Kantor’s bat mitzvah. “I remember…
Steve Bannon is taking dead aim at Gary Cohn, who appears to be Exhibit A in the flamethrower’s battle against so-called “globalists” in the Trump White House. In his first interview since leaving the administration, Bannon slammed Cohn’s criticism of Trump over Charlottesville. “If you don’t agree with (what Trump is doing), they you have…
The memoir of a Soviet military translator who helped identify Adolf Hitler’s body from the remains of his burned teeth is finally having her famous memoir about that experience published in English. Elena Rzhevskaya’s book, “Berlin, May 1945,” chronicles her effort in the post-war Nazi capital to get a positive identification on Hitler’s remains, found…
When Hurricane Irma finally bore down on St. Martin, a tiny Caribbean island, Rabbi Moishe Chanowitz and his family thought they were ready. The Chabad emissaries have lived on the island for eight years, and have seen many storms. But the record-breaking 185 mile-per-hour winds drove them from their homes into the recently constructed Chabad…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders sidestepped criticism from Hillary Clinton that he paved the way to Donald Trump’s victory with his attacks against her in the Democratic primary. Sanders, I-Vt., said he preferred to focus on countering the Trump agenda. “My response is that right now it’s appropriate to look forward and not backward,”…
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