JERUSALEM (JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s office responded to a tweet by a Fox News correspondent which asserted that the Israeli prime minister asked President Donald Trump not to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. “The claims posted by a Fox News correspondent are false,” read the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, which then went on…
Surveillance video shows three young people running away from the area near Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue around the time that the historic Manhattan building caught fire on Sunday night. In the footage, “We see kids running from the area — we don’t know if they were inside, we don’t know if they were responsible for…
White nationalist Richard Spencer led a large group of demonstrators carrying torches and chanting “You will not replace us” on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting plans to remove a Confederate monument in a city park. “I’m here to take part in this great celebration of our heritage and to say ‘no’ to the city of…
The Northwestern University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting the Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh — sparking a protest by Hillel that has been joined by the school’s J Street U chapter. The Monday SJP event in titled “When They Come for Rasmea Odeh, They Come for All of Us” and organizers say…
A small, spinning toy is currently stumping Israeli linguists. The fidget spinner, a three-pronged device that has captured the hearts — and hands — of children worldwide, has yet to be given a Hebrew name, The Times of Israel reports. Scholars at The Academy of the Hebrew Language have turned their puzzlement into a social…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Clashes broke out near Ramallah between Palestinians marking Nakba Day, referring to their perception of Israel’s founding as a catastrophe, and Israeli troops. Eleven Palestinians were injured Monday in the fighting at a checkpoint near the seat of the Palestinian Authority after Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and used other riot control measures in response…
While President Trump’s official itinerary for his visit to Israel later this month has yet to be released, Israeli media has reported that Trump is likely to visit the Western Wall, making him the first sitting president to do so. Trump will be in Israel May 22-23, shortly before the 50th anniversary of Israel’s capture…
The mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, was targeted by anti-Semitic tweets over the weekend after speaking out against white nationalists who gathered at a local park to protest the sale of a statue of Robert E. Lee. “You’re seeing anti-Semitism in these crazy tweets I’m getting and you’re seeing a display of torches at night, which…
Trump’s personal attorney found himself in hot water this weekend after posting a racy picture of his young daughter on Twitter. So proud of my Ivy League daughter…brains and beauty channeling her Edie Sedgwick. On Instagram @samichka_ pic.twitter.com/mpQxhr3mh3 — Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) May 15, 2017 Cohen has previously come under criticism for responding to rape…
President Trump is “running around screaming at television sets, he’s increasingly isolated, basically wanting to fire everybody.” Or at least this is the description that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough provided his viewers Monday morning, based on sources in Trump’s inner-circle. According to the popular cable news anchor, Trump’s outrage stops when it gets to his…
Jean Stein, the Upper East Side oral historian who recently jumped to her death at 83 years old, was worth $38.5 million, the New York Post has reported. The Post found details of Stein’s holdings in court papers. Her assets included her $10 million co-op apartment on the Upper East Side, $13.5 million in security…
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