James Comey, fired FBI Director, is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee today. See what your favorite Jewish celebrities have to say about it. This Comey shit better not fuck up “Price is Right” tomorrow morning. — Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) June 8, 2017 Marco Rubio is such a mess — billy eichner (@billyeichner) June…
Gloria Allred, celebrity lawyer most famous (in my heart) for her cameo in ‘Rat Race,’ was expelled from the courtroom after her cell phone went off in the middle of Bill Cosby’s trial. It was Andrea Costand’s second day of testimony. “It was off and it rang. I have no idea how it happened,” said…
Did Jared Kushner try to protect President Trump from himself? Former FBI Director James Comey’s bombshell testimony at the Senate Intelligence Committee provided a peek into the role played by first son-in-law and top adviser. Kushner, according to Comey, was in the room at the White House with Trump, Kushner and Attorney General Jeff Sessions,…
With the country riveted by this morning’s Senate testimony by former FBI director James Comey, one Washington rabbi has a front row seat. Politico writer Jake Sherman tweeted this morning that Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Shalom – The National Synagogue had a seat next to former superstar U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Seated next to…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A powerful conservative Republican political action committee endorsed Josh Mandel, the state treasurer of Ohio, in his bid to unseat incumbent Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown. The Tea Party Express said in a statement Wednesday that Mandel “epitomizes the new face of conservative Republicans, and we couldn’t be more proud to support his…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is willing to suspend his demand that Israel freeze West Bank settlement construction as a condition for restarting peace talks, a top adviser said. Abbas also is willing to mute his campaign to prosecute Israeli officials for war crimes and to single Israel out for condemnation at…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Archaeologists in Western Poland found the foundations of the New Synagogue, which was destroyed in 1938. The ruins found in the Polish city of Wroclaw belonged to the second largest synagogue in pre-war Germany. The archaeological digs are being conducted with the financial support of German President Frank-Walter Steimeier. The synagogue…
(JTA)– A Hungarian court has ordered the extradition of German right-wing extremist Horst Mahler who fled Germany to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism. Mahler, 81, was arrested on May 15 in the Hungarian city of Sopron while trying to cross into Austria. The Budapest city court on…
Montana Republican Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte pledged to donate $50,000 to a journalism advocacy group as part of an out-of-court settlement he reached with the reporter he physically assaulted on the eve of his election. Gianforte, a wealthy technology executive who won Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election May…
(JTA) — A professor at a central California university says pro-Israel groups pressured the school to disband a search committee for a Middle East studies professor. The search to fill the newly created Edward Said Professorship in Middle East Studies at California State University, Fresno, was in its final stages in April, when it was…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be making a diplomatic visit to Israel next month. However, in an unusual move, he will not meet with the Palestinian Authority. “This is going to be a purely bilateral visit. He is coming to visit us, and only us,” a senior Israeli official told the Times of Israel….
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