Risa Heller, the high-powered New York public relations maven, is no longer representing the Kushner Companies, the family real estate firm of presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner. Heller’s action took place in the aftermath of the Charlottesville, Va. terror attack and the highly-criticized response to it by President Trump. Heller has represented the Kushner firm for…
Ben Jacobs has still not gotten his on-the-record interview with Greg Gianforte, despite a promise from the Montana congressman to meet with the Guardian reporter after having body-slammed him in the run-up to a May special election. “So far, the Congressman has yet to commit to this interview,” the Guardian said in a Wednesday statement….
Lebanese bomb-shell Amanda Hanna is losing her beauty queen title after authorities in the country discovered that she visited Israel using a foreign passport. “After communicating our decision with Lebanon’s Minister of Tourism, he decided that Hanna should be stripped of her title because her visit to Israel violates our country’s laws,” the group running…
Taking a page from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the media for not reporting on his condemnation of racist events in Charlottesville, Virginia. And taking another page from Trump, Netanyahu misrepresented the media’s response. Netanyahu came under fire for his belated response to the events, which were laced with anti-Semitic themes, and…
(JTA) — A student from a private high school was expelled and four others suspended after a photo was posted on social media showing them playing a game of “Jews vs. Nazis” beer pong. The student who hosted the party earlier this month was suspended and will be able to reapply to the school. The…
President Trump remains “very committed” to achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace, his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of talks on Thursday. But there was little to suggest any breakthrough or significant progress towards ending a decades-old conflict is imminent as Kushner began a day of separate meetings…
(JTA) — Ahead of next month’s European Days of Jewish Culture project, the Portuguese town of Belmonte has renovated and reopened its Jewish museum, which is the largest in the world about crypto-Jews. The reopening earlier this month followed extensive renovations costing $350,000 at the museum, which was founded in 2005, a municipal spokesperson told…
Citing President’s Trump “moral failure” in response to Charlottesville, Virginia, the rabbinical arms of three American Jewish denominations have decided to pull out of the annual conference call held by the president before the High Holidays. The rabbinical groups of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements said in a joint statement that Trump’s recent remarks…
A candid exchange with an email prankster may shed light on the tools at Breitbart News Chairman Steve Bannon’s disposal should the former White House chief strategist choose to go to war against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. In leaked emails between Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and a prankster posing as Bannon, Marlow seemed excited…
The lobby of a condominium building in the New York borough of Queens is decorated with images of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, among other bizarre ornaments. The lobby at 47-55 39th Place in the Sunnyside neighborhood also includes a swastika and Confederate imagery, as well as posters depicting President Trump and Rev. Martin Luther…
(JTA) — Brandeis University reopened its campus following an email bomb threat. The suburban Boston campus closed Wednesday morning after the university received the threat. People on campus were moved to a secure facility and anyone not on campus was told not to enter. After law enforcement surveyed the campus and declared it safe, the…
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