Rachel Zabar has gone from serving up caviar at her family’s famous Upper West Side grocery store to selling vintage clothes to the stars. That’s according to a Sunday profile in The New York Times that takes a look at the Jewish grocery store heiress’ masterful move into the competitive world of second-hand clothes dealing….
(JTA) — A Washington-area Catholic priest who left his post because of revelations of his Ku Klux Klan past never apologized or paid court-ordered restitution to two Jewish institutions for burning crosses on their property. Bill Aitcheson, a priest at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Fairfax City, Virginia, acknowledged his college days in the…
A Russian-Jewish business associate of President Trump promised in a 2015 email to another Trump aide that he would engineer a business deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin that “will get Donald elected.” Felix Sater, a broker who had previously worked on real estate and licensing deals for the Trump Organization, emailed longtime Trump lawyer…
A swastika was found written in marker on the entrance to an Upper West Side church last Wednesday, in an incident that the New York Police Department is investigating as a hate crime. The Nazi insignia was discovered at the entrance to St. Paul and St. Andrew Church, a United Methodist institution, by two pastors…
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…
