Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump may not be taking a dime from Uncle Sam. But the ultimate Jewish power couple, who are both unpaid senior White House aides, reportedly still hold a sprawling $741 million real estate and investment empire, raising big new questions about how they will possibly avoid conflicts of interest. Ethics filings…
The top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, said intelligence reports he viewed at the White House on Friday were the same documents seen by panel Chairman Devin Nunes last week. Nunes, a Republican, sparked a controversy last week when he said he had seen documents at the White House that indicated…
A senior rabbi at Yeshiva University tore down posters promoting a lecture from a visiting rabbi and decried him as apikores, a perjorative Yiddish term used to describe a non-observant Jew or apostate. “He’s going to attack all the rebbes in Y.U. It’s like inviting a Reform rabbi to speak in Y.U.,” Yeshiva University’s Rabbi…
PARIS (JTA) — In a dark alley in a poor suburb of this city, five men with violence on their minds closed in fast on 17-year-old Netanel Azoulay and his older brother, Yaakov. “Dirty Jews, you’re going to die!” one man yelled. The driving dispute quickly transformed into something physical, with one of the assailants…
(JTA) — The Reform movement called on its member synagogues to protected undocumented immigrants facing deportation from the United States. The Union for Reform Judaism issued a resolution Friday recommending that its congregations provide shelter and legal assistance, as well as material, financial or educational support to at-risk immigrants. Rabbi Dov Pesner, who heads the movement’s policy arm, the…
Members of White House adviser Stephen Miller’s graduating class at Duke University have a message for the Steve Bannon protege: you don’t represent the values we learned at school. “We find it impossible to see in your words and actions any glimmer of the university values we so cherish, nor the slightest suggestion that you…
Attend a Reconstructionist Passover dinner this season, and there’s a good chance there will be a new addition to the Seder plate – pineapple, to represent support for refugees and immigrants. “In American colonial times, the pineapple was a symbol of welcome and prosperity. They were special gifts because of the great labor and expense…
Disgusting, brilliant, or possibly both? Tic Tac announcedthat it will create limited edition hummus-flavored candies in honor of Israel Independence Day. The chick pea-tinged mints will be given out on the holiday during celebrations on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv starting May 1. They’ll be available in grocery stores through the end of May. Last…
(JTA) — Police in New York arrested a Jewish man they say tricked at least two Jewish boys into a conversation that was inappropriate with notes in their tefillin bags. Menachem Tyk, 59, from the heavily Orthodox Borough Park park section of Brooklyn, was arraigned Thursday on charges of reckless endangerment and harassment. He allegedly put…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Adrian Grenier, best known as the star of HBO’s “Entourage,” returned to TV this week. In a Passover commercial for an Israeli gift card company, the actor clips on a white satin yarmulke and nails the guttural pronunciation of the holiday’s Hebrew name, Pesach. He then proceeds to dispense terrible gifts — including a rock replica, an ashtray…
Mark Cuban is at it again, put his finger in the eye of President Trump, by taunting him about Americans’ student debt on Twitter. .@realDonaldTrump when will you address the exploding cost of college and the problem of student debt ? — Mark Cuban (@mcuban) March 29, 2017 Cuban’s Tweet comes as educators and administrators…
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