Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reportedly got approval from a rabbi to fly with President Trump Friday as he kicks off his first overseas trip. The First Daughter and son-in-law are observant Jews and typically wouldn’t travel on Shabbat from sundown Friday to Saturday. But [Politico quotes](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-air-force-one-shabbat-238586 ) a White House official as saying they…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reportedly got approval from a rabbi to fly with President Trump Friday as he kicks off his first overseas trip. The First Daughter and son-in-law are observant Jews and typically wouldn’t travel on Shabbat from sundown Friday to Saturday. But Politico quotes a White House official as saying they sought…
President Trump likely believed that naming former Sen. Joe Lieberman as a frontrunner to be the new FBI director would help win over Lieberman’s former Democratic colleagues in the Senate. But according to Politico, he appears to be severely mistaken. “Some Senate Democrats hold a grudge against Lieberman for his rightward turn and opposition to…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly told senators that he knew President Trump was going to fire FBI Director James Comey before writing a memo outlining Comey’s alleged failings. That revelation undercuts the timeline promoted by the White House in recent days. Sen. Claire McCaskill told reporters after the briefing that Rosenstein had “acknowledged that…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli settler opened fire on a group of Palestinians throwing rocks at his car, killing one and injuring a journalist. The shooter, a father of eight from Itamar in the West Bank who was on his way home from the supermarket, said he felt his life was in danger when he…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that would add greater detail to State Department reporting on anti-Semitism in Europe. The Combating European Anti-Semitism Act of 2017 requires the State Department to report to Congress on security challenges to European Jewish communities and to the police forces where they…
Rep. Jason Chaffetz will announce Thursday that he will resign from Congress next month, Politico reported. The Utah Republican, who converted from Judaism to Mormonism while a student at Brigham Young University, is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the House’s main investigative body. On Tuesday, Chaffetz sent a letter to…
(JTA) — Wow, what a deal! Or not? The headlines screamed at me from every Israeli newspaper, in both English and Hebrew: only $149 for a flight from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv to New York on WOW air. The Iceland-based airline has plastered Israel with advertisements featuring its distinctive purplish logo for the new…
If you believe you’re a distant descendant of a “lost tribe of Israel” and want to reconnect to this ancient past, all you have to do is go online — where you’ll now find a detailed course on the popular myth. You’ll even earn college credit. “Discover the past, present and future of the world’s…
President Trump said Thursday that Joe Lieberman is his top candidate to be the next FBI director after a White House meeting between the beleaguered leader and the ex-Connecticut senator. Speaking to reporters, the president said he was “very close” to settling on a pick and confirmed that Lieberman was at the head of the…
A teenager is in police custody after authorities said he scrawled a swastika on and burned the garage of a black family’s home in the suburbs of Albany, New York. Jennifer and Laquan Madison – along with their five children – ran out of their burning home late on Sunday night after discovering the blaze,…
