Bill Maher ripped Jared Kushner as an “undeserving schmuck” who has no business running a major company — let alone the White House. The comic, who may be seeking to deflect attention from his own “n-word” drama, mocked the presidential son-in-law as a rich kid who never had to work for anything in his life….
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara won a libel suit on Sunday against an Israeli journalist who claimed that she once kicked her husband out of their car during an argument. A Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court ordered Igal Sarna to pay the couple some $32,500 in damages over what it said was his…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett has proposed a code of ethics that would prohibit lecturers from expressing political opinions at work and from calling for an academic boycott of Israel. Bennett defended the proposed code on Sunday, ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting, according to reports. “We are taking action to prevent…
Israel filed an official protest against Hamas at the United Nations Security Council after a terrorist tunnel was discovered under two United Nations schools in Gaza. Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon submitted the letter of protest to the United Nations Security Council, as well as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The tunnel, first…
(JTA) — A car that rammed into pedestrians outside Amsterdam Centraal train station has injured three Israelis. Amsterdam Police say that the incident on Saturday night was not terror-related, rather that the driver became sick at the wheel and lost control. He rammed into a crowd of people and then a wall before stopping, The…
Tens of thousands of rainbow flag-toting revelers attended the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parade in Tel Aviv on Friday, billed as the largest of its kind in the deeply conservative Middle East. The annual parade featured floats with blaring sound systems and gyrating dancers. Revelers could be seen dancing on the balconies of surrounding…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for the dismantling of the U.N. agency that aids millions of Palestinian refugees, accusing it of anti-Israeli incitement. Adnan Abu Hasna, a Gaza-based spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said Netanyahu was pursuing a “fantasy.” The United States, Israel’s main ally, was the…
Dozens of protestors, many of them wearing “Make America Great Again” baseball caps, gathered in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to denounce what they call the threat of sharia law in the United States. The rally was one of 29 similar protests taking place in major cities across the country. In New York, the event attracted…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The mayor of Rio de Janeiro said in an interview that his city’s residents must be inspired by the memory of Israel’s late former president and prime minister, Shimon Peres. “The Cariocas must be inspired by Peres,” Mayor Marcello Crivella told O Globo newspaper, using the term to describe Rio’s native residents….
Days after capturing Jerusalem’s Old City in a 1967 war, Israel razed the Moroccan Quarter, a ramshackle neighborhood of Palestinian homes in front of the Western Wall, aiming to create an open space for Jews to pray at one of their holiest sites. The 50th anniversary of that conflict has rekindled memories of the event,…
The White House’s 2018 budget proposal includes a five percent cut in the budget of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Now, lawmakers are stepping up to defeat this proposed cut. The Hill reported Friday that a bipartisan slate of 64 members of Congress sent a letter to the relevant appropriations subcommittee demanding to reverse the…
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