(REUTERS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Monday to cancel a meeting with Germany’s foreign minister if he sits down with a left-wing rights group. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel was due to meet with “civil society” groups in Israel on Tuesday, a Berlin spokeswoman said. Israeli media said Gabriel would meet with…
(JTA) — President Trump reportedly is tapping businessman and longtime friend Howard Lorber to serve as chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council’s governing board. Lorber — the president and CEO of the Vector Group, a New York holding company, and chairman of the real estate giant Douglas Elliman — arranged for Trump to serve as grand marshal…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — They were part of the problem. Now they are spearheading a solution. A Tel Aviv-based startup run by young American Jewish immigrants to Israel, or olim, has taken on the largely fraudulent binary options industry centered in this country that has been estimated to generate as much as $10 billion a year. Owned and…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders said it was “imperative” to elect Jon Ossoff congressman from Atlanta’s suburbs, pushing back against the perception that Sanders was unenthusiastic about what is seen as a critical election targeting the policies of President Donald Trump. “Let me be very clear,” Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., said Friday in a rare email…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump proclaimed this week the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, ahead of his planned speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Trump made the proclamation on Monday, which is observed as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Trump’s statement condemned the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews as well as other minorities. “The…
Marine Le Pen, one of two candidates for the next president of France, took a leave of absence Monday from her role as leader of the National Front, the far-right party that she and her father have led for four decades. “I think that we are approaching a decisive moment. I still believe that the…
Neoconservatives die hard, and Paul Wolfowitz, one of the leaders of this school of thought, is no exception. The former deputy defense secretary during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has reemerged in the spotlights, calling on the new administration to assert a bold American stance in the Middle East and expressing reserved optimism about President…
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter got some surprising backing over the weekend from Bernie Sanders, the ultra liberal Democratic senator whose views are almost diametrically opposed to hers. He came out to her defense after students threatened to disrupt Coulter’s planned speech at the University of California Berkley. “Obviously Ann Coulter’s outrageous ― to my mind,…
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counterterrorism aide, stormed out of a panel discussion on cybersecurity and “fake news” at Georgetown University on Monday after some students silently protested him and others asked him pointed questions. Gorka, a former adjunct professor at Georgetown, has come under heavy criticism in recent months for his longstanding ties to…
(JTA) — Much ink has been spilled on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s experience, their effect on the president, even their personalities — but none of us actually know all that much about them. Well, that’s John Oliver’s take on President Trump’s two key advisers at least. The comedian spent most of his HBO show…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Americans for Peace Now has canceled its annual trip to Israel over the country’s new anti-boycott law. The law passed last month by the Israeli Knesset bars entry to foreigners who publicly call for boycotting the Jewish state or its settlements. Americans for Peace Now is concerned that trip participants could be stopped at Ben…
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