(JTA) — President Trump’s recent actions in the Middle East are “a welcome change,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis during a meeting Friday in Jerusalem. The “forthright words on the part of President Trump and very forthright deeds against the use of chemical weapons by Iran’s proxy, Syria,”…
Who knew Robert De Niro speaking in Yiddish could be so satisfying? Big shout-out to the comedy series YidLife Crisis for dubbing over some of the most classic film scenes into Yiddish. If you want to see everyone from Judy Garland to Al Pacino say some of their most famous lines with a Jewish twist,…
The head of the European Union’s executive arm will meet U.S. financier George Soros next Thursday, a spokeswoman said, as part of consultations on a new Hungarian law that has threatened to force the closure of a university that Soros funds. The Central European University is at the heart of the latest dispute between Hungary…
Sarah Palin refused to definitively answer when asked in a Thursday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper whether she had been sexually harassed while working at Fox News, which fired top primetime host Bill O’Reilly after years of such allegations. “I wouldn’t put up with anything that would be perceived as intimidating or harassing,” she told…
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish supporter of the far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen blamed the current government for the death of a police officer in a suspected terrorist attack in Paris. “The perpetrator was flagged for radicalization. He spoke of terrorism on social networks,” Michel Thooris, a police officer and member of the…
(JTA) — There is a “real danger” that France’s democracy will be destroyed by its next president, the leader of the country’s federation of Jewish communities warned ahead of Sunday’s presidential election. “We are in a real danger of seeing the arrival to power of someone who will only use democracy to destroy it,” CRIF…
The tiny but close-knit world of Hebrew translation is cheering for David Grossman and Amos Oz and their respective translators, Jessica Cohen and Nicholas de Lange — but the anti-Semites on Twitter are jeering, and Amos Oz’s daughter stepped into the fray this morning with a pithy response. Grossman’s novel, “A Horse Walks into a…
Dr. Patch Adams, who pioneered the use of laughter in medicine, was given a special award by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday during a ceremony honoring Israeli doctors and nurses. Twelve Israelis were feted during the second annual “Danielle Prize – Healing with a Heart” awards ceremony, which honors medical personnel who distinguish themselves…
Right in the thick of One Direction’s early success, when Harry Styles was fast becoming an object of affection for teens — and, er, some of us slightly older than that — the pop star moved in with an Orthodox Jewish family. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Styles discussed moving in with his…
If the “People of the Book” never take that book off the shelf and read it, do they still deserve the moniker? Over two-thirds of Jews claim that they attend religious services at least a few times a year, but don’t press them on their religious knowledge: only 17% study religious texts weekly (ranking them…
As President Trump returned on Thursday to old accusations that foreign powers are cheating America on trade, it looked as if Steve Bannon – on the ropes for a number of weeks – might have a new lease on life within the administration. “He’s manically focused on these trade issues,” Bannon told The New York…
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