In a Monday morning Twitter storm, President Trump sought out an old rival – Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal. “Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!” Trump tweeted early in the morning. Trump was referring to Blumenthal’s first Senate race, when he…
As its membership rolls decline and the cost of maintenance mounts, a Manhattan synagogue is planning on selling its century-old building for a whopping $34 million. “It’s a really extraordinary spiritual practice to go through as a community — to let go of something to which we’re really lovingly attached, for the sake of growth,”…
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound? And more importantly, if a man learns a language and doesn’t know how to talk dirty in that language, does he really speak it? Not according to Mark Wahlberg. The actor showed off his penchant for…
A T-shirt company is selling a design featuring clothing branded with swastikas in an effort to rebrand the Nazi imagery as a “symbol of love and peace.” The shirts, designed by KA Design and available for purchase on Teespring.com, feature various rainbow-festooned swastika designs alongside the words “peace,” “zen” and “love.” KA Designs explains on…
A Reform rabbi who led a congregation in Maryland for over a decade until resigning late last year has been suspended from his movement’s main rabbinical organization for violating its code of ethics, the Frederick (Md.) News-Post reported. Rabbi Dan Sikowitz was suspended from the Central Conference of American Rabbis in May, the organization confirmed…
(JTA) — The Democratic Socialists of America voted to endorse a BDS motion against Israel at their biannual convention in Chicago. The vote, which took place on Saturday, passed with 90 percent approval of the 697 delegates from 49 states. The motion read, in part, “Democratic Socialists of America declares itself in solidarity with Palestinian…
Former president Barack Obama will appear in an upcoming documentary about the life of former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres. “Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres” is being directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Richard Trank for Moriah Films, the filmmaking unit of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Trank told The…
BERLIN (JTA) — A new search in Germany for books stolen from Jews during the Third Reich is beginning to bear fruit. Recently, a man in California who was the only survivor of the Holocaust in his family received a book from Germany that had been dedicated to him by a teacher. The only other…
(JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot’s iconic Wonder Woman character is expected to make an appearance in the upcoming movie “Flashpoint.” “Flashpoint,” a DC Extended Universe film, and the first solo movie for the DC Comics character The Flash, is scheduled to be released in 2020, Forbes columnist Mark Hughes reported over the weekend. It will…
Legendary TV producer Norman Lear announced Friday that he will not attend a White House reception for this year’s winners of the Kennedy Center Honors in protest of President Trump. Lear told the New York Times on Thursday that Trump “has chosen to neglect totally the arts and humanities — deliberately defund them — and…
(JTA) — Police in southern Sweden are investigating an anti-Israel protest to determine whether the crowd chanted anti-Semitic epithets. The Swedish-Palestinian Centre in Helsingborg held several anti-Israel protests last month while tensions were running high at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, The Local-Sweden reported. But at least one of the protests may have degenerated into…
