Amidst raucous protests in Berkeley, California, a number protestors who appeared to be supporters of President Tump posed in front of cameras giving the Nazi salute. A Mother Jones reporter uploaded photos of the salutes on Twitter. Straight up nazis in Berkeley. Guy on left said he was a “national socialist. pic.twitter.com/99Q8wzpOc5 — Shane Bauer…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The British woman stabbed to death in an attack on the Jerusalem light rail was mourned by Israeli institutions she worked with since arriving in the country. Hannah Bladon, a student in her early 20s, was killed on Friday after being stabbed multiple times by a Palestinian assailant. The Hebrew University and…
Jared Kushner can’t win for losing — at least on ‘SNL’ Host Jimmy Fallon played the presidential son-in-law wearing the infamous bullet-proof vest that he wore during his trip to Iraq — and made fun of his apparently winning battle for the ear of President Trump. In the show’s cold opening, Kushner and Steve Bannon…
You thought real-life Sean Spicer was making gaffes that drive Jews crazy? You should see Melissa McCarthy playing him on “Saturday Night Live.” Skewering the embattled White House press secretary, McCarthy called Passover the “Jewish Easter” and made a hilarious apology for his bizarre comments about the Holocaust. “I know they’re not really called the…
(JTA) — A Chabad rabbi who was severely beaten six months ago at a train station in the western Ukrainian city of Zhitomir has died. Rabbi Mendel Deitsch was 64. He died in Israel where he was airlifted and treated following the attack days after Rosh Hashanah, which he spent in the Ukrainian town of Haditch, the resting place…
(JTA) — A far right-wing Orthodox candidate for mayor of the British city of Manchester apologized after burning what he called a “missionary bible” and posting images of it on social media. Shneur Odze, who is a candidate for the right-wing populist UK Independence Party, or UKIP, on the eve of Passover found the Hebrew-language…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump offered Passover and Easter greetings. Trump called this a “season of great hope” and the United States “a nation of believers” during his weekly address, released on Friday, in the middle of the Passover holiday. “As families gather in houses of worship across the nation, we are grateful for the…
(JTA) — Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg said that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, helped her to survive the sudden death of her husband. Sandberg talked with The Guardian daily newspaper about the sudden death of her husband Dave Goldberg, who had been CEO of Survey Monkey, after exercising at a resort in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on May 3 in Washington DC, a Palestinian official confirmed. The visit was confirmed to the Jerusalem Post on Sunday by top Palestinian official Ahmad Majdalani. Other Israeli media outlets cited a report in the Jordanian newspaper Al…
The British student killed by a Palestinian assailant on the Jerusalem light rail had just given up her seat so that a woman holding a baby could sit down, according to a report on Israel’s Channel 2 news. Hannah Bladon, 20, had just moved to the exit door of the train so that the woman…
“Watching bombs drop on bad guys” is “one of my favorite things about Fox News,” journalist Geraldo Rivera said on Friday. Appearing on the “Fox and Friends” morning show, Rivera discussed the Pentagon’s recent deployment in Afghanistan of the GBU-43/B, known as the MOAB or Mother Of All Bombs. After watching footage of the MOAB…
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