When dad Charlie Kushner got sent to prison for political wheeling-and-dealing, Jared Kushner reportedly got some advice from Howard Rubenstein, possibly the king of crisis communications in New York City. Rubinstein, according to a piece in the Huffington Post, apparently told Kushner to buy a newspaper, purchase a Manhattan building and marry a rich New…
Robert Siegel, who has been the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” since 1987, will step down in January 2018, the public radio broadcaster announced this morning. Siegel, born in 1947, first joined NPR in 1976. “He joined NPR as a newscaster, moved into an editor role, opened NPR’s London bureau, and as chief of…
A white nationalist group is littering Princeton University with anti-Semitic fliers promoting “hate facts” about Jews decorated with an illustration of Hitler. Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe, who graduated from Princeton, tweeted an image of one of the posters, distributed by the group called Vanguard America. Someone’s hanging these around my alma mater. pic.twitter.com/L7cf4B1bTu — Julia…
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump visited a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, hours after she was booed at the G20 women’s summit in the German capital for defending her father’s record on advocacy for women’s rights. Trump visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe late on Tuesday afternoon, walking through the concrete slabs or “stelae” with…
Sheryl Sandberg opened up about losing her husband, and the best ways to help those who are grieving, during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on Monday. The Facebook COO, whose new book “Option B” discusses coping with adversity, told the talk show host that there are right and wrong ways to speak to a person…
(JTA) – Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said she would ban halal slaughter of animals if she is elected, along with any other method without stunning. Le Pen, who won 21.5 percent of the vote in the first round of the elections Sunday, on Tuesday made the statement on halal…
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the small New York nonprofit that has grown in prominence over the past year due to its new executive director’s incendiary rhetoric toward President Trump, reportedly does not consider itself a “pro-Jewish” group — and has only tenuous ties to the Frank family. The Atlantic reported Monday that,…
After a rocky first few months in office, in which his White House was accused of demonstrating a lack of sensitivity and understanding to the Holocaust, President Trump delivered a full address in an attempt to correct this perception. Trump, the keynote speaker at the Days of Remembrance ceremony on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the…
Breitbart News’ application for permanent congressional press passes was denied on Tuesday, the Atlantic reported. The right-wing news outlet, once described by its former editor Stephen Bannon as the “platform” of the “alt-right,” has been seeking credentials for months. The Standing Committee of Correspondents of the Senate Press Gallery voted to table Breitbart’s application —…
Ivanka Trump disputed claims that she was the main cheerleader in the White House for a strike against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime after the dictator used chemical weapons on his own people. “That would be a flawed interpretation… It was informed at the highest levels of military and state. I of course shared my perspective…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli troops shot a Palestinian man who was trying to stab soldiers near an Israeli military base in the West Bank. No soldiers were injured in the Tuesday afternoon attack at the Hawara Junction, the headquarters of the military’s Samaria Regional Brigade near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. The assailant was treated…
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