(JTA) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman withdrew his name from consideration to replace James Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a Thursday letter to President Donald Trump, first obtained by Politico, Lieberman cited Trump’s selection of attorney Marc Kasowitz to represent him in various investigations. “I do believe it would be best to…
Two weeks after a memorial to Anne Frank in Boise, Idaho was vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic slurs, the community raised nearly $30,000 for the nonprofit that hosts it. The city has “turned the Idaho Statesman on Wednesday. “Two weeks ago hate walked into the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial,” Prinzing said. “It came under…
(JTA) — The Nevada Assembly unanimously passed legislation that would ban state government entities from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. The Assembly passed the legislation on Wednesday. It had passed the state Senate last month by a vote of 19-2. The bill advances to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his signature. Sandoval led a…
Donald Trump likes to surround himself with people he knows and trust. His son-in-law and daughter serve as close aides, his former bodyguard manages the Oval Office operation, and even, as BuzzFeed reported, a Mar-a-Lago reception director arranged his trip to the G-7 summit. Heather Rinkus, guest reception manager at Trump’s Florida estate, is now…
Editor’s Note: On May 16, 2017, Scribe featured piece by Jacob Frommer asking a simple question: Why Are Most Kosher Restaurants So Terrible? The piece has since sparked many heated and thoughtful discussions online. In the coming days, we’ll be featuring several responses from readers and Jewish communal leaders alike. My wife and I are…
The Hungarian government’s campaign against billionaire George Soros reached a new level of demonization Wednesday: M1, Hungary’s state-controlled television network, cited Iran’s Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, denouncing Soros as “an evil American and rich Zionist,” as a source for a program criticizing Soros. The report on M1’s Hiradó news program first asserted that…
(JTA) — Users of websites associated with the “alt-right” are cheering a Republican congressional candidate from Montana for allegedly body slamming Jewish reporter Ben Jacobs. There was no indication that Greg Gianforte knew or cared that Jacobs was Jewish when, on Wednesday evening, he allegedly threw Jacobs to the ground and broke his glasses — leading to…
Two Michigan doctors being prosecuted for performing and aiding the female circumcision of two girls are defending themselves against federal prosecutors with a religious liberty defense. The medical professionals, Dr. Jumana Nargarwala and Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, are said to have cooperated in the performance of FGM on two young girls brought to Michigan for the…
Al Franken is notorious for savagely mocking his political opponents in his politically-themed comedy books. Now, Ted Cruz is on the receiving end of the humor, as the Saturday Night Live star turned Minnesota senator releases his latest memoir, “Giant of the Senate.” Franken devotes an entire chapter to Cruz titled “Sophistry,” in which he…
David Berkowitz extended his condolences to the family of the late Jimmy Breslin – four decades after the notorious butcher called himself the “Son of Sam” in a letter to the New York tabloid columnist. “I wish to extend my condolences to his family at their loss,” he wrote to the letter of a local…
(JTA) — An animal rights group will appeal the decision of a federal judge in California which dismissed a lawsuit against a synagogue for holding a kapparot ceremony, a pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung by its legs and then slaughtered. Los Angeles District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. earlier this month…
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