In 85 years of business, the King David Hotel has hosted emperors, kings, prime ministers and divas and on Monday it will add another historic name to its storied annals — U.S. President Donald Trump. Perched in the heart of Jerusalem, with sweeping views of its walled Old City, its terraces surveying manicured gardens, a…
A White House video designed to promote the first trip abroad by President Trump seemingly portrayed a shocking change in American policy and the Trump administration’s beliefs. But it was pulled almost immediately. The video was intended to promote the trip to four countries. A slide in the video showed a map of Israel with…
(JTA) — A candidate for the nationalist UKIP party in the United Kingdom’s general elections wrote anti-Semitic remarks regularly on Twitter, including one that justified the Holocaust. The Campaign Against Antiseitism, a British watchdog, on Friday published its dossier on Captain Paddy Singh, UKIP’s candidate for the Wiltshire North constituency in the June 8 general elections. The…
(JTA) — Stephen Miller, who serves as Trump’s senior adviser for policy, is reportedly the primary author of a speech on Islam that the president will deliver in Saudia Arabia. Trump will be giving the speech, which will address radical Islam, in front of representatives of 50 Muslim countries as part of his first overseas trip. He…
Conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich are now being amplified by Russian officials. The Russian embassy in London tweeted on Friday a claim that Rich was behind the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks. “WikiLeaks informer Seth Rich murdered in US but MSM was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take…
(JTA) — A poll in Israel about President Donald Trump suggested his popularity among Jews there has declined since he first took office. In the poll of 500 Jewish-Israeli adults conducted this week for The Jerusalem Post, 56% said they considered the Trump administration more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian. In January, 79% of respondents in a…
New York City’s Department of Education is preparing an interim report on its ongoing investigation into secular education at Hasidic yeshivas in Brooklyn, to be released later this summer. The report, the existence of which was first uncovered Thursday by the Daily News, comes years into an investigation spurred by complaints from the activist group…
Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has filed for divorce from disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, hours after Weiner pled guilty to sending explicit sexual images to a minor, the New York Post reported Friday. Under the terms of his plea deal, Weiner could serve up to a decade in prison. Prosecutors recommended a sentence term…
The Forward won three Ippie Awards on Thursday, as the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism recognized the publication for two articles and the quality of its Web site. Leading the pack was Forverts reporter Jordan Kutzik, who won a first-place award for a Yiddish editorial about the Armenian genocide (translated into…
It’s the Art of The Deal – Jared Kushner’s version. The First Son-In-Law showed off his business skills earlier this month while skillfully brokering a huge arms deal with Saudi Arabia, according to The New York Times. Kushner reportedly played host to a top Saudi delegation on May 1, trying to finalize a $100 billion…
With Chelsea Manning released from military prison this week, “alt-right” activist Richard Spencer reminded his followers on Twitter that he has long been a Manning supporter of sorts — seeing her as an anti-government icon. “Manning was heroically brave. She risked her life to oppose and expose a system she viewed as evil,” Spencer wrote…
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