Another Israeli corruption scandal has honed in on another billionaire. According to Haaretz, an inquiry into Interior Minister Arye Deri’s finances by police has led to the questioning of Michael Mirilashvili, a Russian-Israeli billionaire. Mirilashvili funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mifalot Simha, a charity suspected to have siphoned off funds to Deri, who…
Amid a new round of buyouts, the New York Times is getting rid of the position of public editor, according to a report in the Huffington Post. Inaugurated amid a plagiarism scandal over a decade ago, the public editor position was first held by Daniel Okrent, the inventor of the most popular form of fantasy…
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — A San Francisco teacher hired to translate into Hebrew President Trump’s speeches in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem said she’s proud of her work — but not working for him. Merav Rozenblum, a Hebrew teacher at Jewish Community High School of the Bay, is a contract…
Scandal, schm-andal. That’s how Jared Kushner was dealing with rising questions about his ties to Russia on his first day back at the White House. The presidential son-in-law held at least three major staff meetings on the first work day after the Memorial Day weekend — without once mentioning the explosive probe rattling the Trump…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The year was 1981 and the director of AIPAC was calling for a “showdown” with the Reagan administration, saying “This country is being held hostage to the whims of the Saudis.” At issue was the sale to Saudi Arabia of AWACS, aircraft with radar-enabled surveillance capabilities that at the time were state of…
Within days of capturing East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, Israel was examining options about their future ranging from Jewish settlement-building to the creation of a Palestinian state. As the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the war nears on June 5, recently unearthed documents detailing the post-war legal…
One activist has been arrested and two are missing in China after conducting an investigation into a Chinese company making Ivanka Trump-branded shoes, China Labor Watch, a New York-based advocacy group, said. Labour activist Hua Haifeng was arrested in Jiangxi province on suspicion of illegally using eavesdropping equipment, according to Li Qiang, executive director of…
(JTA) — Jared Kushner was once hailed as the key to Donald Trump’s surprise election victory. Now Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser is at the center of the biggest controversy plaguing the administration: its ties to Russia. Kushner is facing heat following reports of two meetings with figures close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Democrats…
In a meeting with leaders of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, affirmed the historical role of Jews in Jerusalem. “Denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” Guterres said, according to a statement from the Wiesenthal Center. “History must be respected. Jerusalem is a holy city for…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Among the Jewish men and women with a front-row seat to America’s executive branch, there are Jews who would be president, Jews who are indispensable to presidents and, less happily, Jews who help mire presidents in scandal. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is a definite category 2, with rumored ambitions of…
The New York Observer, the newspaper owned by White House senior advisor Jared Kushner, laid off a quarter of its editorial staff on Tuesday. Among those let go was entertainment writer Dana Schwartz, a top web traffic driver who wrote an open letter to Kushner on the Observer website last year criticizing him for defending…
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