JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Culture Minister Miri Regev was booed by the audience at the opening of the Israel Festival in Jerusalem in the wake of threats to withhold funds from performances that feature nudity. Regev was booed for several minutes, and many in the audience turned their back on her while she spoke. The…
A disclosure of ethics waivers provided to Trump administration officials suggests that top adviser Steve Bannon may still be playing a key role in the right-wing media world — despite working in the White House. The disclosure, first reported by The New York Times, lists 16 White House staffers who were exempt from ethics rules…
After a surge in conspiracy theories about the murder last summer of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, a legal investigative unit led by conspiracy theorist Jack Burkman is filing a freedom of information request to see police records connected to the death. The Profiling Project, headed by the D.C.-based lobbyist and staffed with some…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, earning statements of dismay from critics, including liberal Jewish groups, who regard the pullout as a diplomatic and environmental disaster. Speaking Thursday at ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump said…
Jared Kushner’s real estate company used an underhanded, though legal tactic to save millions in the construction of a luxury development in Jersey City, effectively gerrymandering the pricey building into a high poverty zone, allowing it to benefit from preferential government terms. According to the Washington Post, Kushner’s consultants presented maps to the federal government…
(JTA) — The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is responding with emergency aid to catastrophic flooding and mudslides in Sri Lanka. More than 200 people have been confirmed dead and at least 100 missing in the worst storms to hit the island nation since 2003. JDC, together with its local partner Sarvodaya, a Buddhist-inspired humanitarian…
(JTA) — The European Parliament voted Thursday to adopt a resolution calling on member states and their institutions to apply the working definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Most of the 28 European Union states participate in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, though only Austria, Romania and the United Kingdom have formally…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian town has refused to change the name of a women’s center that was named for a female Palestinian terrorist. The center in the West Bank village of Buraq was named for Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 massacre on a highway near Tel Aviv that killed 37 civilians, many of…
With the European far-right on the march, Italian scholars have released their country’s first annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto, “Mein Kampf.” “We decided to translate ‘Mein Kampf’ since we found the book to be the perfect example of how dangerous modern politics can be. Hitler can be considered the father of European populism,”…
Chuck Woolery, the ex-Love Connection host who raised concerns after tweeting about the supposedly Jewish roots of Communism, has continued on with his borderline anti-Semitic social media rant. He decided to double down with the “Jews and Communism” line with an attack on Bernie Sanders: But don’t worry, he really loves Israel… And it’s the…
Democratic hopeful Jon Ossoff raised over $8 million in support of his campaign for Georgia’s 6th District ahead of the April special election, one that may be the most expensive House race in history. Ossoff’s high profile celebrity donors were well publicized (Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Fonda, and Chelsea Handler., to name a few), but…
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