Yascha Mounk, a German Jewish Harvard scholar, is warning that the recent White House chaos is not a mere sideshow, but an additional sign that American democracy is in trouble. “America is on its way to a full-blown constitutional crisis,” he wrote in a New York Times op-ed Tuesday, warning about recent developments such as…
Small majorities of Israelis and Palestinians still support a two-state solution, a poll conducted jointly by Tel Aviv University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found. According to the poll, 53% of Israelis and 52% of Palestinians expressed support for a two-state solution, where Israelis and Palestinians would have separate countries in…
Madonna observed Tisha B’Av in the way that only she could, posting this photo on Instagram for her 9.8 million followers: 9th of Av. ??This is a Day to stay inside. ???lay low. ⛱ Keep Quiet? ??. A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on Jul 31, 2017 at 8:36am PDT Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction…
Fox News worked with a wealthy Republican donor to concoct and promote a conspiracy theory about the death of a Democratic National Committee aide in order to deflect attention away from President Trump’s Russia woes, a lawsuit by a longtime Fox contributor alleges. The tangled web involves Rod Wheeler, a former cop and Fox talking…
A popular “alt-right” figure left the movement shortly after a June event in Portland, Oregon — after being confronted by a Jewish protester. John Turano, better known as “Based Spartan” for his Greek-inspired warrior costumes, told the Portland State University student newspaper, Vanguard, that he defected from the movement because of what he called pervasive…
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Monday that she would push for revisions to a bill that would penalize companies that support boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel, after the American Civil Liberties Union raised free speech concerns about the legislation. “I would never support any bill that chills free speech,” the New York Senate…
Top White House strategist Steve Bannon was considered an unlikely ally of former chief of staff Reince Priebus in recent months. And yet Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, was happy to see Gen. John Kelly take over the role. That wasn’t because he wanted to see Priebus ousted, Politico reported, but rather because…
Jared Kushner invoked the ineptitude defense on the Trump-Russia investigation, telling a group of congressional interns that his father-in-law’s presidential campaign was too disorganized to cooperate with the Kremlin. “They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices,” he said, according to notes of the talk obtained by Foreign Policy magazine….
A private speech by Jared Kushner to congressional interns revealed the White House senior advisor’s thoughts about Middle East peace, which has been part of his official portfolio. When asked by an intern how he will solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict despite past diplomats’ failures, he acknowledged that “not a whole lot has been accomplished over…
A man with a history of arson has been arrested for torching an elaborately-decorated Jewish art bus in Crown Heights. Jackson Joseph, a 30-year-old Brownsville resident, was arrested Monday on charges of arson and criminal mischief, the website Vos Iz Neias reported. Joseph has a history of arson, DNAinfo reported. He was arrested at age…
(JTA) — Leaders of the Irish Jewish community have come to the defense of a columnist who was fired for a column in which he made anti-Semitic references. The Sunday Times fired columnist Kevin Myers on Sunday, the same day its Irish edition published his column on the BBC’s gender pay gap, in which he noted that…
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