Joe Lieberman is Mr. Bipartisan – Al Gore’s Democratic vice presidential nominee, Connecticut’s Independent senator, almost Republican Jon McCain’s vice presidential nominee. Now, President Trump will interview the bipartisan politico and observant Jew to be the next FBI director, along with three other candidates: former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, acting director Andrew McCabe and ex-FBi…
Team Trump is causing chaos for Israeli officials as they prepare for the U.S. president’s first visit to Israel, according to a report in the Israeli news site Ynet. The American team sent to Israel is “considered junior, lacks the authority to make decisions and frequently changes its mind,” said Ynet. The Israelis have chalked…
Israel’s culture minister Miri Regev showed up to the Cannes film festival in France this week in a dress that doubled as a political statement. Regev wore a floor-length skirt printed with a wrap-around photograph of Jerusalem’s Old City. According to a press release the dress was meant “to express in its spirit the beauty…
Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee turned independent Connecticut senator, seems like the furthest thing from a Donald Trump fan. Now on the shortlist to be the next FBI director, Lieberman has nonetheless worked for the Trump-linked law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Friedman since leaving the Senate. The legal group has represented…
Pro-Israel groups expressed their dismay after news emergedon Wednesday that President Trump will not use his upcoming trip to Israel to announce that he is moving the U.S. embassy in that country to Jerusalem. Trump had promised during the presidential campaign that he would move the embassy, a fact noted by the executive director of…
How long should it take to tour Israel’s main Holocaust museum? If you’re the president of the United States, 15 minutes should be sufficient. According to a report in Israel’s Ynet News, the advance team planning Trump’s visit to Israel allotted only 15 minutes for his visit to Yad Vashem. How will the president use…
Several Israeli journalists planning to cover President Trump’s visit to the Middle East were denied visas to Saudi Arabia and will not be able to board the press plane. Orly Azoulay, a reporter for the newspaper Yedioth Ahronot, and Gil Tamary of Channel 10 were scheduled to cover Trump’s first overseas visit as Commander-in-Chief, and…
(JTA) — A New York congressman has asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to deport a former Nazi guard living in New York City. Rep. Joseph Crowley, a Democrat, sent Tillerson a letter on Tuesday urging him to deport Jakiw Palij, 92, of Queens, who was a guard at the Trawniki concentration camp in occupied…
President Trump will not immediately move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a senior White House official told Bloomberg News on Wednesday. Trump promised during the campaign that he would move the embassy to Jerusalem, which he called “the eternal capital of the Jewish people.” But given the reportedly positive meetings that Trump has…
(JTA) — Jewish groups criticized a proposed Knesset bill that would require the state to recognize only conversions completed under the auspices of the haredi Orthodox-dominated Chief Rabbinate. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, urged the Israeli government to reject the proposed legislation, calling it “another step down a path of…
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