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…
Ousted White House aide Steve Bannon is slated to speak at the Zionist Organization of America dinner in November. ZOA president Morton Klein told the Atlantic that Bannon is on the lineup to speak at the November 12 event in New York. “All I can tell you is Steve Bannon is going to be at…
(JTA) — Swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti were found spray-painted on a Long Island, New York, high school. The walls, doors and windows in the back of Syosset High were vandalized between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Sunday, Nassau Police told the local media. In addition to the anti-Semitic graffiti, “MS13” was painted on the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Iran is using Syria and Lebanon “as warfronts against its declared goal to eradicate Israel.” Iran is “building sites to produce precision-guided missiles towards that end in both Syria and in Lebanon. This is something Israel cannot accept. This…
(JTA) — Some 150 neighborhood blocks in Houston that are home to members of the Jewish community have been damaged in floods as part of Hurricane Harvey. Dozens of families were either evacuated or moved to the second floors of their homes, the local Jewish Family Service said during a conference call with community leaders,…
(JTA) — A municipality near Paris warned farmers of an elevated risk of theft of sheep and fowl ahead of the Muslim and Jewish holidays of Eid al-Adha and Yom Kippur, respectively. The warning, which provoked angry reactions on the part of communal leaders who felt it was discriminatory, came in a letter sent earlier…
(JTA) — Stephen Bannon will speak at the Zionist Organization of America dinner in November in his first official public appearance since he was fired from his post as chief strategist for President Donald Trump. ZOA President Morton Klein confirmed to The Atlantic on Monday that Bannon will speak at the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner…
(JTA) — Rabbis from the San Francisco Bay area joined other faith leaders in gatherings against bigotry and racism a day after a two planned far-right rallies were canceled. A planned Patriot Prayer gathering at San Francisco’s Crissy Field and a “No to Marxism” rally in Berkeley were canceled by their organizers late Friday afternoon, but…
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