A Jewish veteran of the Iraq War has thrown his hat into the race to challenge Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee. James Mackler is the first candidate to announce he is entering the state’s Democratic primary ahead of the 2018 elections. His announcement video, released last month, highlights his military service as a Blackhawk…
President Trump unleashed on Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday and Thursday, mocking the Northeast Democratic senators for supposedly crying after both spoke out against the White House’s firing of FBI Director James Comey. Cryin’ Chuck Schumer stated recently, “I do not have confidence in him (James Comey) any longer.” Then acts so indignant….
Cathy Hettinger, who has been prominently featured in recent media stories as the supposed inventor of fidget spinners, actually applied for a patent that likely wouldn’t cover the incredibly popular toys, a Bloomberg News investigation revealed on Thursday. Hettinger claimed in recent interviews that she had been inspired to invent a toy to give Palestinian…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised a decision by one of America’s largest banks to close the account of an organization that supports the boycott of Israel, in a move that Abbott tied to the state’s new law banning government business with Israel-boycotters. The Jerusalem Post reported last week that the Dallas-based firm Comerica Bank would…
Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general at the center of the unfolding controversy over FBI director James Comey’s dismissal, requested a meeting Thursday with the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee. According to Politico, Rosenstein was seen walking into the committee space today while the panel convened to discuss security threats. The…
Three South African students were suspended on Thursday on suspicion of putting up Nazi-inspired posters at an elite university, at a time of growing tension in race relations. Stellenbosch University said the images, which copied Nazi youth movement posters without their swastika flags, contained “highly offensive references to Nazi propaganda and Neo-Nazism” and were in…
As Conservative religious leaders continue to debate whether the movement should bless intermarriages, one rabbi is adding his voice to a growing group that wants to officiate such ceremonies. Rabbi Steven Abraham of Beth El Synagogue in Omaha penned an op-ed in The Times of Israel this week calling on the movement to change its…
After a memo written by him was invoked as the reason for FBI Director James Comey’s abrupt ouster, deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was apparently so incensed that he threatened to resign. An administration told the Washington Post Rosenstein was upset that the White House said it was firing Comey due to his memo faulting…
A Bay Area high school held an all-student assembly to address recent anti-Semitic and racist incidents there. Piedmont High has seen Nazi salutes in the hallway, a gym class dance routine in the shape of a swastika and anti-Semitic statements made directly to students such as “you’ll burn like your ancestors.” The incidents, which have been…
Michael Weiss was indicted Wednesday on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after the Brooklyn construction honcho’s failure to ensure safe conditions led to the death of one of his workers. Fernando Vanegaz died while helping with a demolition on Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant – Weiss’s RSBY NY Builders firm was looking to redevelop…
Katherine Berman, a 67-year-old former public school teacher and wife of ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman, died tragically in a car crash Wednesday afternoon in Woodbury, Connecticut. The accident also took the life of 87-year-old Edward Bertulis, ESPN reportshttp://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/19349242/kathy-berman-wife-espn-icon-chris-berman-dies-car-accident. Berman was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident; Bertulis was taken to the nearby Waterbury…
