President Trump turned down an Israeli invitation to bump his Israel visit to June to mark the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War out of a desire to seem nonpartisan on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat reported, according to Haaretz. Moving the trip was also out of the question because Trump planned…
(JTA) — A committee of the Walloon Parliament in southern Belgium has voted to ban the slaughter of unstunned animals, a requirement for both kosher and halal ritual slaughter. The environment committee of the Walloon Parliament voted unanimously on Friday for the ban, which takes effect on Sept. 1, 2019. The issue is set to…
Controversial White House aide Sebastian Gorka pushed back against accusations of ties to anti-Semites and Nazi allied groups in a speech the Jerusalem Post conference Sunday. “I have spent my life fighting against totalitarian ideologies,” said Gorka. He took aim at the Forward, which he accused of “slander” for revealing his membership in the Vitezi…
(JTA) — A campaign office of the front runner in the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron, was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. The Normandy campaign office was vandalized on Friday night, the L’eveil Normand newspaper reported. Macron is not Jewish; he is however, considered a supporter of Israel. The attack came less than two days before…
Coca Cola in Israel donated 50,000 shekels, or about $13,850 to Im Tirtzu, a right wing group that targets leftists and human rights groups in Israel. The donation was first reported by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Im Tirtzu had tried to keep the donation secret by requesting the Israel Corporations Authority not to report it….
(JTA) — The city state of Monaco, which is sandwiched between France and Italy, saw the largest Jewish gathering in its history during a visit to the principality by more than 1,000 Russian Jews. The celebration Thursday, which was hosted by the tiny Jewish community of Monaco, was organized by its president, Aaron Frenkel, and…
Barbra Streisand serenaded Hillary and Bill Clinton at her weekend concert in Brooklyn, saying the losing presidential candidate represents “what should have been.” Babs introduced Hillary Clinton as “the winner of our country’s popular vote” after introducing the former first couple to a cheering crowd at the Barclays Center, the Daily News reported. She said…
(JTA) — Jared Kushner’s sister highlighted her family’s Holocaust survivor past and connection to the son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump during a real estate sales pitch to Chinese investors. Nicole Meyer, Kushner’s sister, made the sales pitch on Saturday in Beijing to more than 100 Chinese investors, the New York Times reported….
(JTA) — Fifty-two U.S. members of Congress have signed a letter calling on the Trump Administration to allow Americans born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their birthplace on official documents. The letter, led by Republican Reps. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Bill Johnson of Ohio, was sent last week to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,…
Jared Kushner’s family is reportedly wooing wealthy Chinese investors with a promise of U.S. residency in exchange for six-figure investments in their luxury real estate deals. Kushner’s sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, told dozens of potential investors in Beijing that they should invest in a skyscrapers currently being built in New Jersey, the Guardian reported. She…
(JTA) — You’d better Beliebe it: A haredi Orthodox woman went into labor after just one song at a Justin Bieber concert in Tel Aviv. Then again, Reut Ziskind, 23, from the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, told Ynet she was three weeks overdue by the time she attended the concert on Wednesday. “I…
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