(JTA) — The San Francisco city supervisor has demanded a personal apology from the city’s mayor for a text the mayor sent to his top staff people comparing Aaron Peskin to the Gestapo. In a private group text, Mayor Ed Lee used the word “gestapo” to describe legislation backed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is…
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and “Jewish wingman,” is feeling the heat over his reported role in a back channel between the White House and Russia. Cohen was named as a key player in a New York Times story about an effort to enlist now-deposed National Security chief Michael Flynn in a deal to…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli citizen was arrested, accused of plotting bus bombings targeting Israeli soldiers on behalf of the Islamic State. Anas Haj Yehiye, 35, an Arab-Israeli resident of the central Israeli city of Taibe, was arrested late last month, the Shin Bet security service announced in a statement issued Monday after the lifting of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his counterpart in Singapore, during the first visit to the country by an Israeli prime minister. In a statement issued after the meeting Monday with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Netanyahu called Loong’s visit to Israel in April, the first by a Singapore leader,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Reuven Rivlin told American Jewish leaders that Israel is concerned about the polarization of society in the United States. The Israeli president addressed the opening meeting of the annual leadership mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations on Sunday evening. “In Israel, we are very concerned by polarization in society,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two rockets were fired from the Sinai Peninsula at southern Israel. The rockets fired on Monday came a day after the Islamic State, or ISIS, claimed that an Israel Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle on Saturday struck and killed at least four of the group’s members. They were traveling in a car…
(JTA) — A prison inmate in Tennessee filed an over 200-page lawsuit alleging that the prison system is trying to force him to break the Jewish laws of kashrut by providing him with substandard kosher meals. Perry March, who has served 10 years of a 56-year sentence for the 1996 murder of his wife (though…
(JTA) — An Austrian woman who questioned the Holocaust was found guilty of violating an Austrian law that makes Holocaust denial illegal. The woman, 53, was given a suspended jail sentence and fined $1,280 by a court in the western Austrian city of Feldkirch on Friday, the Associated Press reported. She criticized a post on…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump’s then-nominee for national security advisor, Michael Flynn, and members of the transition team, worked to defeat a United Nations vote condemning Israeli settlements, according to a new report. Foreign Policy reported Friday that: “The effort represented a fitful first foray into global diplomacy by Trump’s transition team, bearing hallmarks that…
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is trying to get under President Trump’s skin again. The Jewish mogul donned a No. 46 jersey for his appearance in the NBA All-Star celebrity basketball game in New Orleans. Cuban told ESPN after the Friday night game that he picked the digits “to tweak the…
(JTA) — More than 20 Democratic Jewish members of the House of Representatives called on President Donald Trump to not sign an Executive Order that would exempt religious organizations from adhering to nondiscrimination protection. The letter sent on Thursday was in reaction to news reports that Trump would sign the order allowing federally funded, faith-based…
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