White House aide Sebastian Gorka has been linked to a neo-Nazi group in his native Hungary. Now it seems like he might have lied about his military service in the United Kingdom, where he was raised. According to BuzzFeed News, the British Ministry of Defense has no evidence that Gorka worked in the 1990’s on…
President Donald Trump told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday he was committed to working with Israelis and Palestinians to reach a peace agreement, but he offered no clues about how he would break the deadlock between the two sides. Trump, appearing with Abbas at the White House, told reporters about the peace deal, “We…
FBI director James Comey told Congress on Wednesday that Hillary Clinton e-mails ended up on a computer that Anthony Weiner used partly because his estranged wife Huma Abedin forwarded the correspondence to him. “Somehow, her emails were being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information,” he said at the Senate panel, where he was called…
(JTA) — El Al Israel Airlines will begin nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and Miami in November. It will be El Al’s sixth route in North America; the others are New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Boston and Toronto. Miami International Airport had been in talks with Israel’s national airline since February 2016 in order…
ted a fire in a Jewish school’s bus in Brooklyn using religious books he found in the vehicle. The incident from last week in the Williamsburg neighborhood was first reported by the New York media on Wednesday. The arsonist broke into the emergency exit of the parked bus in the early evening, the New York…
White House aide Sebastian Gorka has been linked to a neo-Nazi group in his native Hungary. Now it seems like he might have lied about his military service in the United Kingdom, where he was raised. According to BuzzFeed News, the British Ministry of Defense has no evidence that Gorka worked in the 1990’s on…
(JTA) — The man who calls himself “America’s Rabbi” revealed the agenda of America’s most powerful nationalist in a photo op with Stephen Bannon. Shmuley Boteach, an author, speaker and adviser to several celebrities, tweeted a photo of himself with Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, on Tuesday. This is not the first time that…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbinic head of a religious Zionist pre-military yeshiva in the West Bank who said the Israeli army drives female soldiers “crazy” and upsets their Jewishness has gone on an indefinite leave from his position. The Bnei David academy in the Eli settlement told Israel’s Channel 2, which first reported Rabbi Yigal…
The Secret Service spent $65,000 on ski passes and hotel accommodations during Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s Passover trip to a Canadian ski resort, CBS News reported. The couple spent the Passover holiday at the Four Seasons in Whistler, British Columbia. The hotel hosted a Passover program, with religious lectures and Kosher food. According to…
(JTA) — El Al Israel Airlines will begin nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and Miami in November. It will be El Al’s sixth route in North America; the others are New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Boston and Toronto. Miami International Airport had been in talks with Israel’s national airline since February 2016 in order…
Ivanka Trump will be reviewing some of President Trump’s executive orders before they are signed, an unprecedented level of influence for the first daughter who was recently installed as a White House special assistant. “I’m still at the early stages of learning how everything works,” she told The New York Times for a Tuesday profile,…
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