A new survey shows that over the past decade support for Israel leaving the West Bank as part of a potential peace deal with the Palestinians has fallen precipitously over the past decade. According to the poll, conducted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, only 36% of Israelis would now back withdrawal from the…
The white nationalist who fatally stabbed a black man in New York said he cultivated his worldview online, where he frequented websites like the “alt-right” neo-Nazi hub the Daily Stormer. In a Sunday interview with the Daily News, 28-year-old white nationalist James Jackson said he hoped his killing of a black man would discourage interracial…
As President Trump continues to lay more responsibilities at the feet of Jared Kushner, some have begun to ask what exactly his wife and first daughter Ivanka Trump will be doing within the new administration. “No one really knows what she does exactly,” a source close to the administration [told](told ) The Hill. Trump is…
Politics were set aside when Mark Cuban was honored Monday evening by Sheldon and Miriam Adelson in a gala dinner fundraiser for the Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas. “A good person with good values, though he is totally opposite of us in his political views,” is how Miriam Adelson described Cuban, according to the…
Stephen Colbert took a swing at Jared Kushner last night, riffing the only White House office the presidential son-in-law is qualified to helm is the “Bureau of Obvious Nepotism.” Tonight! Stephen reveals the grand scheme behind Trump’s new ‘Office of American Innovation’ and its bold young leader. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/aGKZDEgQgg — The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) March…
(JTA) — Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli is pregnant with her second child. “Something’s cooking,” she wrote in a post on Instagram alongside a photo of her taking a selfie of her bare midriff, which shows a small baby bump. Something’s cooking … A post shared by Bar Refaeli (@barrefaeli) on Mar 28, 2017 at 6:29am…
Did Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Sunday night dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side degenerate into a shouting match with an acquaintance who admitted voting for Donald Trump? The New York gossip pages suggested that the Hilary Paley Byers, the daughter of Jewish CBS founder William S. Paley, started sparring with Schumer as they both dined at…
Ron Wyden, a Senate Democrat from Oregon, is calling for the federal Office of Government Ethics to investigate Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin after he appeared to promote a movie that he helped finance at a political gathering last Friday. “I’m not allowed to promote anything I’m involved in,” he said at an event hosted by…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The American Jewish Committee returned to Warsaw after eight years. AJC on Monday opened a new office in the city dedicated to serving Poland and six other Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. “Welcome home!” Andrzej Folwarczny, founder of the Forum for Dialogue and recipient…
Almost a decade after losing billions of his clients’ money in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, hedge fund financier Charles Murphy leaped to his death Monday from the twentieth floor of Midtown Manhattan’s luxury Sofitel Hotel, in what is being described as a suicide. “We are extremely saddened by this news. Charles was an extremely gifted…
If you love “This American Life” or “Serial,” cancel your evening plans: This morning, the creators of the two popular podcasts released a new podcast, “S-Town” — and every episode is now available. That’s right, you can binge the Alabama-set true-crime story right now. The producers have kept most details of the show under wraps,…
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