Jewish high school students protested on Monday outside the home of the last known Nazi concentration camp guard in the U.S. The Queens, N.Y. home of Jakiw Palij, 92, was the site of signs and chants by students from the Rambam Mesivta on Long Island. “It is outrageous that a Nazi who is involved in…
Richard LeFrak and Steve Roth, New York real estate giants and members of President Trump’s working group on infrastructure, dished this week on how to rebuild the country’s aging roads, bridges and other facilities. Appearing at a Washington, D.C. event, the two could not nail down the specifics of the president’s proposal, even as LeFrak…
Um, if Amy Schumer ever needs to use the bathroom and you have the power to give her the door key, do it. You might get a sweet mattress out of the deal. That’s pretty much exactly what happened to Six Corners Mattress Firm employee Sagine Lazarre, when the comedian stopped in asking for a…
Debbie Schlussel, the conservative pundit who claims Fox News host Sean Hannity made unwanted sexual advances toward her, has a controversial record of comments on Islam and other topics. Schlussel, who has written for numerous publications, in addition to appearing on shows like “Hannity” and “Howard Stern,” celebrated the death of Osama Bin Laden by…
There have been a lot of random celebrity cameos on the glossy, teen soap “Gossip Girl.” Lady Gaga, Mike Bloomberg (?!) and Cyndi Lauper among them. But a sharp-eyed Twitter user caught a glimpse of two high-profile and, erm, currently very topical New Yorkers in one particular scene. Yup, that’s Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump…
(JTA) — Thousands of American Jews have signed a petition challenging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s invitation to President Donald Trump to deliver the keynote remarks at the National Day of Remembrance. Launched Monday by Bend the Arc, a Jewish group that advocates for social justice causes, the petition by the following morning had more…
Ivanka Trump tried to use her poise and message of women’s empowerment to win over fans — and it didn’t go well at all. Audience members booed and hissed at her — and the panel’s moderator peppered her with tough questions about her father President Trump. “I’m very proud of my father’s advocacy,” she said…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled talks on Tuesday with Germany’s visiting foreign minister after he rejected the Israeli leader’s demand not to meet left-wing groups critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians under occupation. The dispute threatened to widen a rift between Israel and Germany over the Palestinian issue. Berlin has been increasingly critical of the…
Palestinian leaders said on Tuesday Britain had rejected their request for an apology for a 1917 declaration that helped pave the way to the state of Israel, and they would pursue international court action unless London backtracked. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the apology in an address to the U.N. General Assembly in September,…
The first new Hebrew-German Jewish prayer book in over a century was unveiled in Berlin on Monday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The prayer book, called Tehillat Hashem, contains over 1,400 pages and took four years to write, according to Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal, the book’s publisher and the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the German capital. In…
The son of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said that the United States had not learned the lessons of the Holocaust because it has turned away Syrian refugees. Elisha Wiesel, the son of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, who died last year, made the remarks in a speech to the March of the Living program at Auschwitz…
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