Now that Jared Kushner is back from a trip to Iraq, a new photo of him is establishing his war theatre credentials. get that battlefield-to-bar look pic.twitter.com/rzIVnB8b37 — David Mack (@davidmackau) April 6, 2017 Kushner is taking some heat for his desert attire: a bulletproof vest over a suit. Fun game: Which of these photos…
Don Rickles, the master insult comic who created laughs with ridicule and sarcasm in a decades-long career that earned him the facetious nickname “Mr. Warmth,” died on Thursday at his Los Angeles home from kidney failure, his publicist said. He was 90. Rickles, who was born in Queens to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, said he…
A report in Jezebel today highlights contradictions in controversial Donald Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka’s accounts of his military career. The Forward has reported on Gorka’s ties to a Hungarian anti-Semitic group, and on his expression of support for a violent anti-Semitic militia. Jezebel reported that Gorka’s time in the British military has been characterized in…
A New York state judge on Thursday rejected a request from a former delicatessen worker to throw out his February conviction for murdering Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy whose disappearance in 1979 became one of the country’s most infamous missing child cases. The decision paves the way for Pedro Hernandez, 56, to be sentenced on…
At the annual conference of the Jewish Funders Network in Atlanta last month, a panel of Jewish women spoke about perceptions of race among American Jews — and their own experiences facing racism. “I’ve had a very racialized experience in the U.S. I’ve been called a monkey, accused of cheating on tests and told my…
As infighting continues to rage within the Trump White House, chief strategist Steve Bannon apparently got so frustrated that he almost bolted from the administration, before a key donor and confidant persuaded him to stay. “Rebekah Mercer prevailed upon him to stay,” one source close to the story told Politico, referring to the mega-donor who…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Is J Street anti-Semitic? A South Carolina state legislator insists it is. But few — if any — Jewish leaders seem to agree. Alan Clemmons, a state representative from Myrtle Beach, S.C., is a darling of the pro-Israel community. He led the charge to pass a 2015 state law outlawing contracts…
Passover is a long holiday, and everybody celebrating it is supposed to swap delicious bread for massive, tasteless crackers, the entire time. So to keep your spirits up through the long, unleavened week, please munch on these Passover memes. Non-nutritive, but so delicious! Contact Shira Hanau at [email protected]
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a friend-of-the-court brief Thursday in support of Planned Parenthood’s effort to kill an Ohio law denying public funding to abortion providers. Fifteen other state attorney generals joined Schneiderman’s brief, filed with the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit. “We won’t stand by while a woman’s…
(JTA) — A Hilton hotel in Southern California reportedly has canceled a Passover trip for 700 New Yorkers, despite a $1 million deposit, the organizer said. The New York Post’s Page Six reported Wednesday that the 10-day trip to the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in San Diego was booked in November, according to the organizer,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat canceled a lecture he was to deliver at San Francisco State University a year after his address at the school was drowned out by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. In a statement Wednesday announcing his decision to cancel the lecture for the following day, Barkat noted that in April 2016, “dozens…
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