A high school journalist scored an exclusive interview with Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis after spotting the Pentagon chief’s phone number in a Washington Post photo. Teddy Fischer, a sophomore at Mercer Island High School, saw Mattis’s personal phone number exposed and decided to give him a try (the Post later removed the photo)….
It started with an emoji laughing so hard it cried — or crying so hard that it laughed? Adina Miles, the Orthodox Jewish comedian behind the popular social media brand Flatbush Girl, took out a full page ad in the Flatbush Jewish Journal thanking a local city councilman for his service to the Jewish community….
(JTA) — Lawyers for a Jewish woman in Montana say they are unable to track down a neo-Nazi she is suing for launching a harassment campaign against her and her family. Tanya Gersh of Whitefish, Montana announced in April a suit against Andrew Anglin, the founder of the white nationalist website, The Daily Stormer, for revealing…
On June 26th, Richard Spencer, founder of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, and Laura Loomer, of “Julius Caesar” protest fame, presided over competing far-right rallies in the capital. Spencer has little regard for Loomer and her ilk, whom he likes to call “alt-light.” Loomer, who is Jewish, has called Spencer out for hating Jews….
Police are asking the public for help identifying the man suspected of torching a Jewish art bus in Crown Heights last month. On Thursday, the police released a short video of the suspect, taken from what appears to be surveillance footage inside a deli. This is the second video released to the public of the…
In a statement released on the anniversary of his death, Seth Rich’s parents and brother are asking the public “please cease using Seth as a political football in predetermined partisan narratives.” “While we recognize the futility of this request, we make it anyway,” the family wrote. Rich died after being shot in the back outside…
Fourteen Israeli travel agents are suspected of colluding to fix prices on youth trips to Holocaust memorial sites in Poland, and may face prosecution. According to the Times of Israel, the charges seem to be that “the four companies agreed not to compete against one another and made false presentations to clients to create the…
When Eli Ozer was a kid growing up in the Israeli town of Bat Yam, he realized he was deeply attracted to women’s feet. After stints in the Israel Defense Forces and a medical institute, he emerged as a programmer and creator of the foot fetish site WikiFeet. “There are three parameters for evaluating feet,”…
Two of the most famous Jewish lawyers of our time will be facing off in court over the ashes of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna’s once burning love. TMZ reports that Kardashian has hired former OJ Simpson lawyer and Robert Kardashian Sr.’s former partner, Robert Shapiro, to fight for temporary legal custody of the former…
Linda Sarsour, the Palestinian-American activist and Women’s March organizer, drew criticism over a recent speech she gave at the Islamic Society of North America convention over her use of the word “jihad.” “I hope that … when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form…
(JTA) — A British Islamic activist who said during a rally in London last month that “Zionists” were responsible for the deaths of dozens in a tragic apartment fire is under investigation by police. London Metropolitan Police are investigating allegations that Nazim Ali, a director of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, made anti-Semitic comments during…
