JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has appeared to confirm an Israeli report that U.S. President Donald Trump shouted at him during their meeting last month in Bethlehem. The London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al Araby, or The New Arab, which has editions in both Arabic and English, reported on Wednesday that Abbas acknowledged the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian woman was critically wounded by Israeli troops after she stabbed an Israeli soldier guarding the entrance to a West Bank settlement. The woman, reported to be in her 20s, on Thursday morning used a screwdriver with a white handle to stab the soldier guarding the entrance gate to the Mevo…
Amy Schumer, actress, comedian, writer, gun control advocate, master of controversy, noted feminist, and ambassador for the fact that Jews can have blonde hair too, turns 36 today. Double chai! Or as Schumer might say, double hiiiiiiigh. The much loved-and-reviled comedian’s celebration comes just as more news is being released about Schumer’s upcoming film project,…
(JTA) — A former Nazi SS guard who was sentenced to five years in prison by a German court for his role as an accessory in the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland has died. Reinhold Hanning’s lawyer told Reuters he found out about his client’s death on Tuesday, and did not…
As Jared Kushner comes under increasing scrutiny in the explosive Russia probe of President Trump, a growing group of Democratic lawmakers want his security clearance revoked. “He discussed opening a secret line of communications that could be monitored by Russian intelligence but not American intelligence, ,” Don Beyer (D-Virginia) said in a statement, according to…
Billionaire financier George Soros warned the European Union on Thursday that it was facing an “existential crisis,” saying the bloc should not let protracted Brexit talks distract it from making vital reforms. Soros, a liberal philanthropist, wrote in an article published by Project Syndicate that Europe needed to radically reinvent itself. “Negotiating the separation with…
Breaking a campaign promise that had excited pro-Israel activists, President Trump has reportedly decided to sign a waiver postponing the relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Senior administration officials told CNN on Wednesday that Trump will follow the path of his predecessors and sign the biannual waiver on Thursday to postpone the…
Israel’s finance minister has met the Palestinian prime minister, Israeli officials said on Thursday, in a rare visit by an Israeli cabinet member to the occupied West Bank as part of a U.S. peace push. Israel’s security cabinet agreed just before U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank May 22-23 on…
Google Trends just released “American’s Most Misspelled Words” of 2017, and it’s a sight to behold. While some states can be forgiven for struggling with certain words (I get it, West Virginia and Connecticut, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is confusing), some of these mistakes are just plain embarrassing. But Leonard Cohen may be surprised to see ‘Hallelujah’ as…
The English-language Twitter account for Al Jazeera tweeted an anti-Semitic meme on Wednesday to promote a story about climate change. Al Jazeera later deleted the post, but Twitter user Eli Meixler quickly took a screenshot. The meme is known as the “Happy Merchant,” and depicts a hook-nosed Jew in a yarmulke rubbing his hands together….
President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee as part of their investigation into Russia’s influence on the 2016 presidential election. The committee also issued subpoenas to former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who resigned under pressure after failing to disclose meetings with Russian officials, as well as businesses…
