WASHINGTON (JTA) — San Antonio elected Ron Nirenberg, an insurgent progressive and the son of a Jewish father, as mayor. Nirenberg, a councilman, defeated Ivy Taylor, the incumbent mayor, 55-45 percent in voting in the south-central Texas city on Saturday. Taylor had establishment backing and outspent Nirenberg in the race. Nirenberg, 40, celebrated his diverse…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would strengthen the processes that have ensured Israel’s qualitative military edge. Under the legislation introduced Friday, the president would be required to consult with officials in the Israeli government about their defense needs before authorizing arms sales or defense items to countries in the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Israeli cyberintelligence reportedly uncovered detailed Islamic State plans for bomb attacks aboard aircraft that led to the U.S. ban on laptops on flights from eight Muslim-majority nations. The revelation appeared Monday in a New York Times article about the difficulties facing the United States in using cyber-warfare to contain the influence of…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited her own work from her time as a civil rights lawyer as ruled on Monday that laws that treat unwed fathers and mothers differently when granting citizenship to children born abroad are unconstitutional. Under current law, children of American mothers and non-U.S. fathers could become citizens as long…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Business magnate Warren Buffett is encouraging the purchase of Israel Bonds at private events in New York. Guests attending the events with Buffett on Thursday have pledged to buy $1 million to $5 million in Israel Bonds in order to meet the billionaire. Buffett hosted an event last November in his hometown of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Security Cabinet agreed on Sunday to reduce the amount of electricity Israel supplies to the Gaza Strip at the request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas said he would reduce the amount of money the PA pays to Israel to supply the electricity, Haaretz reported. Abbas reportedly made the decision…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took another opportunity to needle President Trump on Monday, tweeting out a spoof of Trump’s first full Cabinet meeting, where officials battled to lavish praise on the embattled leader. The meeting largely consisted of high-level government officials sucking up to the president as Trump looked on in silent approval, a…
Was the steamy pool scene that rocked the “Bachelor In Paradise” actually a sex assault that producers should have stopped? Corinne Olympios now says she was too drunk to consent to sexual contact with DeMario Jackson — and that producers failed to step in and stop things from getting out of hand, TMZ reported. The…
Nearly 20,000 members of the Satmar Hasidic group packed an anti-Zionist rally at the Brooklyn Nets’ home arena last night — even though half of the sect boycotted the event. The rally against Israel’s efforts to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews was organized by followers of Grand Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the Satmar leader in Williamsburg, Brooklyn….
A suspected neo-Nazi with explosives who idolizes Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and reads Hitler is not a threat to society, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas McCoun rejected the government’s argument that Brandon Russell should be held in jail because he “poses a threat to the community or is likely to flee…
Ivanka Trump’s humblebrag backfired on Monday morning when she incorrectly said that Judaism was one of the world’s three largest religions. Trump gracefully sidestepped a possibly-insensitive question from “Fox & Friends” co-host Gretchen Carlson on what it was like “as a convert to be there in Israel and to meet with [Prime Minister] Netanyahu” while…
