White House adviser and former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday after she said that she had a “good relationship” with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and would “look forward to a meeting with him.” Manigault, the communications director of the White House’s Office of Public Liaison, made…
If you enjoyed Jordan Peele’s hit debut “Get Out,” then the following news should excite you: Universal Pictures, in conjunction with Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, just signed a “first-look” deal with Peele. According to a report at Variety, the deal includes a commitment to develop Peele’s next film “an untitled social thriller, which he will write,…
(JTA) — The One America Movement, a faith- and community-based initiative to bridge growing divisions in U.S. society through community service and dialogue, is launching in cities across the United States with the help of the Jewish service organization Repair the World. The idea for One America was formed late last year by Jewish, Muslim and…
Over 85% of women have started their period unexpectedly while in public without any feminine hygiene products on hand — and thanks to recent student activism, students at Yeshiva University will no longer have to worry about dealing with such a dilemma on campus. YU student Yardena Katz wrote in February for the campus newspaper…
Do you think that Israelis are the descendants of the biblical Israelites? It’s a simple but provocative prompt — one which the videographer and man-on-the street interviewer Corey Gil-Shuster recently put to half a dozen Israelis. Gil-Shuster, the man behind the “Ask Project,” interviewed an anti-Zionist Hasid, a woman from a West Bank settlement and…
Both Jewish Republicans voted for the American Health Care Act, the controversial bill that will repeal elements of Obamacare, as it passed the House of Representatives by a margin of 217-213. Democrats voted unanimously against the bill, along with 20 Republicans who broke with their party. Republicans Lee Zeldin (N.Y.) and David Kustoff (Tenn.) voted…
A group of digital reporters are aiming to create a “Breitbart of the left” to challenge the Trump administration – and they are being led by a former employee of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Elizabeth Spiers, a former editor-in-chief of the Kushner-owned New York Observer newspaper, is attempting to raise funds to…
Ivanka Trump is sparing with private details in her new memoir and self-help book, “Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success.” But the first daughter does spill some details about her religious observance and mad matchmaking skills. Trump, who converted to Judaism when she married husband Jared Kushner, extols the benefits of the Sabbath,…
First Daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump pledged last month that in order to comply with government ethics rules and to “avoid the appearance of using my official role” for personal gain, she would donate proceeds for her new book “Women Who Work” to charities and would “not publicize the book through a promotional tour…
President Trump’s first foreign trip as president later this month will take him to Israel — and he wants the ultimate photo op. Tentatively scheduled to arrive in Israel on May 22, Trump is expected to “lay out some terms for what we see as a peaceful future in that region,” an administration official told…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump deleted a tweet in which he said it was an “an honor” to host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House a day after the two leaders met. The tweet, which also included video from the two leaders’ meeting, was gone on Thursday, 13 hours after it was originally…
