White House conter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka is facing a demand from House Democrats for President Trump to fire him after reports from the Forward linked him to far-right and neo-Nazi groups in his native Hungary. “Based on recent revelations about Mr. Gorka’s public support for and membership in several anti-Semitic and racist groups in Hungary,…
The progressive Jewish group Bend the Arc has signed onto two amicus briefs opposing President Donald Trump’s second executive order suspending immigration from six majority-Muslim countries. The briefs will be filed as part of cases challenging the ban to be heard by the Fourth Circuit and Ninth Circuit courts of appeals. Other signatories to the…
For Senator Tom Cotton, a leading voice in the conservative wing of the Republican Party, it took until college to meet his first Jewish friend. He grew up in rural Arkansas and only at Harvard did he encounter fellow students who were Jewish. Cotton, in an interview with Mishpacha said it was there he learned…
A wall-sized illustration of NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire is the latest addition to an ongoing art project where portraits of contemporary and historical figures are painted on the metal shutters of Jerusalem’s central market. “The Shuk has legends painted all over. I’m humble to be amongst the greats here,” Stoudemire wrote on Instagram, captioning an…
Ivanka Trump won’t lift a finger to promote her soon-to-be-released book “Women Who Work,” announcing that she would cancel a tour and promotional events due to ethics concerns. “Out of an abundance of caution and to avoid the appearance of using my official role to promote the book, I will not publicize the book through…
Anne Hathaway isn’t turning her nose up at Ivanka Trump. The actress was asked on The View about a recent Instagram post the president’s daughter put up, which showed Hathaway giving a speech at the United Nations on paid leave. “Watch @annehathaway excellent speech on paid leave at the United Nations in honor of International…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Iran is not living up to the “spirit” of the nuclear deal, President Donald Trump said Thursday, the latest in a flurry of mixed messages on the deal his administration has relayed in recent days. “As far as Iran is concerned I think they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement…
Rock musician Ted Nugent, whose anti-Semitic Facebook post last year drew widespread criticism, visited the White House Wednesday night as a guest of President Donald Trump, along with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and singer Kid Rock. Photographs of the group’s White House visit appeared on Twitter on Thursday morning. In one shot, the three…
California congressman Adam Schiff has emerged as a national political figure since the House Intelligence Committee – on which he’s the ranking Democrat – took up its investigation of ties between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign. All the press conferences and cable appearances might add up to a promotion: longtime California Senator Dianne Feinstein…
(JTA) — President Trump’s recent actions in the Middle East are “a welcome change,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis during a meeting Friday in Jerusalem. The “forthright words on the part of President Trump and very forthright deeds against the use of chemical weapons by Iran’s proxy, Syria,”…
Who knew Robert De Niro speaking in Yiddish could be so satisfying? Big shout-out to the comedy series YidLife Crisis for dubbing over some of the most classic film scenes into Yiddish. If you want to see everyone from Judy Garland to Al Pacino say some of their most famous lines with a Jewish twist,…
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