Pundits have speculated since President Trump entered the White House that he goes on his worst Twitter benders on Saturday, because that’s when Sabbath-observant Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are out of reach. But that theory faced new challenges this weekend, as the president threw out wild accusations of wiretapping against his predecessor, even as…
Amona settlers are hunger striking to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver on his promise to build a new West Bank settlement. Amona, a hilltop outpost of 40 families, was evacuated in late January after the High Court ruled that it had been built on private Palestinian land. Amid outcry from his right…
Update: 3:17 p.m. David Duke is now back on Twitter. Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke was kicked off Twitter on Monday morning — and he blamed the Jews and enemies of President Trump. “We are really at war. Trump is at war,” Duke said on his regular Monday morning radio show. “They’re…
The list of Trump advisers and confidants who had met with Russian officials before the elections and during the transition is growing — and it’s getting more Jewish. Jason Greenblatt, who was Trump’s adviser on Israel and the Jewish community during the campaign and is now his special representative for international negotiations, was also involved…
(JTA) — Ukrainian Jews protested the attendance at an international symposium on the Holocaust by a state historian who praised a Nazi collaborator whose troops killed Jews. Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, last week condemned the planned attendance of Volodymyr Vyatrovych, director of Ukrainian National Memory Institute, at a conference planned for Paris this…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman will arrive in Washington D.C. for meetings with senior Trump administration officials. Liberman will leave Israel for the United States on Monday evening, his office said in a statement. He is scheduled to meet with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and Secretary of…
Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israeli annexation of the West Bank would be a “crisis” in the United States’ view at an Israeli parliament committee meeting, the Times of Israel reported. Lieberman said that he received a firm message from the Trump administration warning Israel not to go ahead with West Bank annexation…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Team Israel defeated Korea in its first game of the finals of the World Baseball Classic. Israel on Monday in Seoul topped Korea 2-1 in the 10th inning. Team Israel had 8 hits to Korea’s 7 in the hard-fought game. The Israeli team is scheduled to play the team from Chinese Taipei…
Police are expected to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth time on Monday in a corruption investigation that has prompted political rivals to start looking to a “post-Bibi” Israel. Israeli TV and newspapers, citing unnamed sources, said Netanyahu would be questioned later in the day. A police spokeswoman declined to confirm the reports,…
(JTA) — The headstone of an American soldier killed in World War II was replaced with one bearing a Star of David, according to his wishes. A headstone replacement ceremony was held on Feb. 28 at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, according to a report in the Air Force news…
(JTA) — Jewish leaders in New York are disputing the New York Police Department’s finding that 42 headstones toppled in a Brooklyn cemetery are the result of neglect. The headstones reported toppled on Saturday night at the largely Jewish Washington Cemetery originally were thought to have been the work of a vandal or vandals. But police…
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