Former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste called President Trump’s firing of James Comey “darkly reminiscent” of the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre,” the evening in October 1973 when President Nixon fired the man investigating him. Ben-Veniste, who drew the comparison in an interview with the Forward, is far from the first to connect President Trump’s firing of…
A feel-good video of Pope Francis dancing with a group of rabbis at the Vatican didn’t feel so good to some haredi Orthodox Jews, whose criticisms drew an apology from one of the rabbis who took part. Rabbi Dovber Pinson, a Chabad rabbi and the dean of the Iyyun Yeshiva in Brooklyn, N.Y., wrote a…
Members of the Trump and Kushner families are corrupt “princelings” using their access to the White House to steer business towards their companies, journalist Jill Abramson argued in a New York Times op-ed Thursday. Abramson compared Trump and Kushner families to the Chinese children of government leaders who use their family connections to enrich themselves….
Pizza Hut is facing calls for a boycott after its Israel branch mocked Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti for breaking his prison hunger strike with a candy bar and some cookies. “Barghouti: If you’re going to break the strike, isn’t pizza better?” Pizza Hut in Israel tweeted, showing footage from the Israel Prison Service showing Barghouti…
While the precise reasons for FBI Director James Comey’s firing remain unclear, what is crystal clear is President Trump’s deep disregard for America’s institutions and the traditions of a democracy that is accountable to its people. The lack of explanation for the firing and the lack of clarity on what will happen to the ongoing…
Israeli police taught elementary school students how to kill Palestinian terrorists as part of an event on Monday highlighting police-community relations in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon. Using a dummy, police officers used active fire to demonstrate how to take down an assailant armed with a knife and then verify that the assailant…
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan has said that the State of Israel has “no home” in the Middle East and that the Holy Land does not belong the “white Jew.” Speaking on a Tuesday broadcast of the Cliff Kelley Show on an AM radio station in Chicago, Farrakhan said that “original black man…
May 10th is the first annual 50/50 Day, with thousands of organizations, companies, schools, museums, libraries and homes — anywhere people already gather — in a global conversation about what it will take to get to a more gender-balanced world in all sectors of society: business, politics, culture, home, and more. Below, founder Tiffany Shlain…
Have old Ivanka Trump brand clothes you can no longer wear because you angry at the current administration? We’ve got good news for you. A clothing drive called “Make America Rational Again” (MARA), created by the fashion collective “The Rational Dress Society,” is collecting old Ivanka Trump clothing, and recycling them into pink and gold…
“Herr Adolf Hitler of Germany would be covered with confusion if he dared to enter the strictly kosher home of Mrs. Rose Hitler, pretty young Jewish housewife, who lives at 233 E. 92nd Street, in the heart of Brooklyn’s Brownsville.” That is the start of an improbable article from June 1933, entitled “Kiss the Mezuzah…
A man armed with a meat cleaver threatened to kill Jews at a kosher meat store in the northwest London neighborhood of Stamford Hill on Tuesday – in what might have been a case of workplace violence. “Where is the boss, I will kill him!” the 61-year-old man is said to have screamed upon entering…
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