NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League is offering to hold Holocaust-awareness training for White House staff after administration spokesman Sean Spicer was pilloried for saying Adolf Hitler never used chemical weapons. In a letter to Spicer shared with the media on Thursday, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said his organization “would be happy to conduct…
A group of House Democrats released a letter on Thursday calling on FBI Director James Comey to suspend Jared Kushner’s security clearance after a New York Times report revealed that the presidential advisor’s clearance application failed to disclose dozens of meetings over the last several years with Russian officials. “Lack of candor, particularly regarding contacts…
(JTA) — Rabbi Saul Leeman, a longtime leader of Conservative congregations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and a civil rights activist who marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, has died at 100. Leeman, who served the Cranston Jewish Center on Rhode Island and later Temple Shalom in Medford, Massachusetts, died April 5. The Providence Journal…
If the Kushner-Trump clan are spending the Passover holiday at a Canadian ski resort, what’s the deal with the Twitter photo that Trump posted hour before Passover began of her family at the White House? CNN’s Betsy Klein appears to have cracked the case. That Instagram photo appears to have been taken two months ago,…
The most high-profile New York Times reporting duo covering the Trump White House were once fierce rivals in New York’s high-stakes City Hall tabloid culture — until they bonded over the surprise discovery that they’re both Jewish. Maggie Haberman, then with the New York Post, and Glenn Thrush, then with Newsday, refused to speak to…
Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman has become much closer to the president in recent days and played a critical role in Trump keeping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as the Dreamers program, which gives the children of illegal immigrants two-year green cards. Schwarzman, the CEO of Blackstone Group and longtime acquaintance of President…
Huma Abedin, the estranged wife of former Congressman Anthony Weiner and longtime aide to Hillary Clinton has begun meeting with literary agents about a new book project. The book could show her side of the sexting scandal and also her role in Hillary Clinton’s presidential run, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Abedin might forgo a…
Ardian Syaf, the Indonesian artist recently fired by Marvel over his inclusion of allegedly anti-Semitic and anti-Christian symbols in the newly-released “X-Men Gold #1,” told an Indonesian newspaper that Jews were to blame for his firing. Syaf made the comment in an April 12 interview with Jawa Pos. Heat Street, translating that conversation, wrote that…
(JTA) — Police in Fairfax, Va. have arrested and charged a suspect for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the city’s Jewish Community Center and a nearby church. On Wednesday, police arrested Dylan M. Mahone, 20, at his home, based on surveillance video of the incidents, which occurred Tuesday, according to a statement by the Fairfax County Police…
(JTA) — The office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism will remain inactive due to a State Department personnel decision, according to a former State Department official. President Donald Trump has yet to fill the envoy post. According to the official, the anti-Semitism envoy’s staff will also be eliminated. A directive ending the…
Belgian federal police said it ended a three-year-long investigation into the shooting at Brussels Jewish Museum and released its final report. One of the suspects of the terror attack, in which four people were killed on May 24, 2014, remains unidentified. The justice must now decide which court will try the alleged shooter Mehdi Nemmouche…
די נײַע אױסגאַבע באַטאָנט דעם בײַטראָג פֿון סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער אין דער אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער מאָדערנער ייִדישער קולטור.
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