(JTA) — Covering the White House Easter Egg Roll live, CNN reporter John Berman noted that Ivanka Trump was not in attendance. Maybe, he speculated, it was because she’s Jewish. “I saw Tiffany Trump just there before. Not Ivanka or Jared Kushner. Of course, Ivanka Trump is Jewish,” he said during Monday’s festivities. “I don’t know…
A Super PAC running advertisements against Georgia Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff, including one tying him to Al Jazeera, has received most of its funding this year from a single so-called ‘dark money’ group. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican Super PAC with close ties to the House GOP leadership, has spent over $3 million…
Israeli police arrested 28 people on Tuesday in connection with an alleged extortion plot to force major companies to advertise in an ultra-Orthodox Israeli newspaper, according to a report in Ynet. The paper, called Hapeles, is published by the followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, a Jerusalem-based ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has feuded in recent years with…
A human rights group is suing the publisher of the internet’s biggest neo-Nazi website, alleging that he broke the law in the state of Montana by coordinating a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against a Jewish real estate agent living in the town of Whitefish. Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer website, launched the campaign…
Before his sexting allegations helped sink Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Anthony Weiner was almost asked by the former secretary of state’s campaign to play the role of Donald Trump in debate preparations. Married to Clinton top aide Huma Abedin, Weiner was known for delivering a populist message in blunt language – making him an appropriate…
After the blistering Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton in the general election. But the Vermont senator apparently refused to repeat her signature catchphrase (“I’m With Her”) in ad that he cut for her effort. “It’s so phony!” Sanders was reported to have said, reacting to a script sent over by the Clinton camp….
The New York City subway isn’t the prettiest spot for photos. But a snap from the F Train highlighting interfaith harmony between Muslims, Jews and Taoists ricocheted around the Internet this week, after being posted to Facebook by city resident Jackie Summers. “A Taoist (me) gives up his seat so a Hasidic couple could sit…
Ivanka Trump’s company received provisional trademark approvals from the Chinese government on the same day that she dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The decision, which gave Trump a monopoly on selling Ivanka-branded jewelry, bags and spa services in China, was reached just hours before she and husband…
(JTA) — The Public Editor of the New York Times took the newspaper to task for failing to identify Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti as a convicted murderer of Israeli Jews. Public Editor Liz Spayd was responding to criticism of the newspaper for publishing on Sunday an Op-Ed by Barghouti titled “Why We Are on Hunger…
A Chilean Palestinian official is urging his country to refuse entry to Israeli tourists after he was barred from entering the Jewish state. Anuar Majluf, executive director of the Palestinian Federation of Chile and a prominent BDS, or boycott, divestment and sanctions, movement activist, was refused entry by the government of Israel on April 10 when…
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his wife visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Tillerson, his wife and two other family members, accompanied by a small security detail, toured the museum’s permanent exhibit on Saturday, the Washington Post reported. The visit comes days after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized for…
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