(JTA) — The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. Jewish groups reacted along ideological lines to Friday’s confirmation, which came after Republicans invoked the “nuclear option” allowing them to lower the threshold of Senate votes needed for Gorsuch’s nomination to a simple majority of 51. Gorsuch had initially failed to garner the…
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and key advisor, Jared Kushner, failed to list “dozens of contacts” with foreign officials in his application for security clearance, the New York Times reported. Among other meetings, Kushner left out an encounter with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the same ambassador whose conversation with former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn led…
The battle between the right-wing and mainstream press over presidential aide Sebastian Gorka, just intensified. In an editorial on the apparent decline in influence of Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, within the administration, The New York Times also cited the background of Gorka, a close Bannon confidant. Highlighting the Forward’s coverage of Gorka’s ties…
The morning after President Donald Trump ordered a cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base, prominent neoconservatives are praising the president. In an essay in the Weekly Standard, Elliott Abrams, a longtime adviser to Republican presidents, lauded the strike. “The president has been chief executive since January 20, but this week he acted also…
President Trump’s airstrike against Syria may cause him to lose his “alt-right” support. “I am ready to condemn Donald Trump,” white nationalist Richard Spencer said in a YouTube video to his followers, but stopped just short of doing so. “I certainly condemn these actions just taken in Syria.” The video, posted Friday morning, was titled…
Mainstream Jewish groups are getting behind President Donald Trump’s strike on a Syrian airbase, launched from a warship late Thursday night. In a tweet Friday morning, the American Jewish Committee, a leading U.S. Jewish organization, openly backed the attack. .@POTUS did the right thing. Given #Syria’s horrific use of chemical weapons & after yrs of…
TEL AVIV (JTA) – In response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria on Tuesday, Israelis have donated hundreds of thousands of shekels to help children and others caught in the conflict raging on their northern border. With Israel maintaining a policy of noninterference, giving money has been a way for people here to respond to the brutal six-year civil…
(JTA) — Belgian Jews protested the unilateral decision by the city of Antwerp to move its main Holocaust monument from a place where victims were rounded up to another part of the city with less traffic. The Forum of Jewish Organizations of the Flemish Region — one of the three autonomous entities that make up the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish organizations joined a letter from religious groups to Congress urging the preservation of a law banning tax-exempt status to faith groups that endorse candidates and parties – one that President Donald Trump says he hopes to rescind. “Houses of worship are spaces for members of religious communities to…
Their rivalry is a secret to no one: Though they both occupy top positions at the White House, Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, and Jared Kushner, the president’s senior advisor and son-in-law, have opposed views on every possible issue. Case in point: Bannon is calling Kushner a “cuck” and a “globalist” behind his back, The…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi expressed guarded optimism about peace between Arabs and Israel, but also warned of the threat posed by Islamists, in a meeting with U.S. foreign policy experts that included Jewish organizational officials. Sisi met Wednesday morning at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington, D.C., with an array of…
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