The increased presence of white nationalist or supremacist outreach on college campuses in recent months has left schools struggling to respond. School officials are seeking to both respect free speech and assure students that they are safe, according to a NPR report. When white supremacist leaflets showed up at Purdue University this fall, administrators said…
Alan Dershowitz sounded a somber note on accusations that President Trump gave Russia highly classified intelligence in a meeting last week, declaring it “the most serious charge ever made against a sitting president.” “Let’s not underestimate it,” the retired Harvard Law professor said in a Monday night appearance on CNN, adding that Trump “revealed more…
Kosher fair fare? It sounds unlikely, but at the Minnesota State Fair, family owned area business Sweet Martha’s serves warm cookies by the bucket and ice cold milk to hungry visitors. Area chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern says the cookies are so good, he eats “about a bucket and a half a day.” Watch:
Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan has “reinforced his position as one of the leading anti-Semites in the United States,” according to a May assessment by the Anti-Defamation League. In recent weeks, Farrakhan called for the Muslim world to unite against the State of Israel — and said “white Jews” have no home in the…
If reports are accurate, President Donald Trump revealed vital and highly classified information in the Oval Office to Putin’s top officials. This reckless move jeopardizes our intelligence sources, exposes extremely sensitive information, and seriously calls into question our president’s judgment. This dangerous behavior threatens our global alliances in the fight against terrorism and actually makes…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The new U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman presented his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem. Friedman, who is an Orthodox Jew and owns an apartment in Jerusalem, also presented his wife, Tammy, and daughter, Talia, to Rivlin following the playing of the United States national anthem by an Israeli military…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Seven immigrants to Israel from English-speaking countries have been awarded the 2017 Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize. The $10,000 prizes announced Tuesday are awarded to English-speaking immigrants who have made a major contribution the State of Israel. The prizes will be awarded at an official ceremony at the Knesset at the end of…
The latest film about infamous swindler Bernard Madoff, whose decades-long Ponzi scheme cost clients more than $17 billion, ends with a question. “Do you think I’m a sociopath?” Madoff, played by Robert De Niro, asks journalist Diana B. Henriques in a prison interview. “The Wizard of Lies,” premiering on Time Warner Inc’s HBO on Saturday…
BERLIN (JTA) German right-wing extremist Horst Mahler has been arrested in Hungary, where he had gone into hiding to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence in Germany for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism. Mahler, 81, reportedly asked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for political asylum in a letter he published May 12 on the Internet. It was…
ROME (JTA) – Italian and Israeli cyclists are paying tribute this week to Gino Bartali, an Italian cycling champion who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust and in 2013 was recognized as a Righteous Among Nations. Bartali, who died in 2000, smuggled Resistance messages and false documents for Jews hidden in his bicycle frame…
Israel sought to prevent the shekel rising further on Tuesday by agreeing to allow Intel Corp to pay the tax due on its planned purchase of Israeli autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye in dollars. Intel agreed to buy Mobileye for $15.3 billion in March in a deal which, if completed, is expected to result in…
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