Jared Kushner is widely perceived as a moderate in President Donald Trump’s White House — a socially liberal New Yorker hailing from a family of Democrats. But that impression might be wrong, according to reports that he’s become a backer of chief strategist Steve Bannon’s nationalist-populist agenda. The latest court gossip reports that Trump’s son-in-law…
Jon Stewart’s comedy often cuts through Washington, D.C.’s bonhomie and niceties, but he’s defending one inside-the-Beltway ritual, the White House correspondents’ dinner. Some have demanded that reporters boycott over President Donald Trump’s treatment of the press, but Stewart says he disagrees. “I think it’ll be entertaining,” the ex-Comedy Central host told TMZ on Monday. “The…
(JTA) — The New York commuter who led several others on a Manhattan subway to clean away anti-Semitic graffiti with hand sanitizer is being honored by the Anti-Defamation League. Jared Nied, 37, will receive ADL’s Stand Up New Yorker Award, which recognizes city residents for taking immediate action to help those being singled out for bigotry,…
(JTA) — Austria’s chancellor praised workers of his country’s railway company for what he called their outsize resistance to Nazism during the Holocaust. Christian Kern’s praise for the partisans of the Austrian federal railways, or BBO, appeared in a statement he penned for an exhibition about the firm’s role during the Holocaust that opened last…
Members of the leftist Jewish protest group IfNotNow rallied outside the New York City offices of AIPAC on Monday. The protest targeted a new Israeli law that allows Israelis to build on land in the West Bank privately owned by Palestinians. “We know that fifty years of pro-Israel-at-any-cost politics enforced by the American Jewish establishment…
The union representing the newly-organized workers at the Brooklyn warehouse of B & H Photo Video have filed a complaint against the company over its plan to shift its operations to New Jersey. The local news website DNAinfo first reported the National Labor Relations Board filing brought by United Steelworkers. B&H announced in January that…
A Burger King franchise in Israel is including some “adult” accessories in its burger special for Valentine’s Day. The “Adult Meal,” in a dark blue box with marked “18+” comes with a feather duster, a sleep mask and a head massager, in addition to two beers, two Whoppers and two servings of fries. The Valentine’s…
(JTA) — Disney has severed its relationship with a popular YouTube star after millions of people viewed his videos featuring anti-Semitic content. In a Jan. 11 video, 27-year-old Swedish citizen Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, covers his mouth and watches as two South Asian men dressed in green loincloths hold a sign reading “Death To…
President Trump planned to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as his first act in office, but backed off because of because of regional concerns over such a move. Interviewed on Politico’s The Global podcast, Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said that Trump was “ready to move the embassy at 12:01…
(JTA) — A Russian lawmaker in President Vladimir Putin’s party said the ancestors of two Jewish opposition politicians had killed Christians. “Christians survived despite the fact that the ancestors of Boris Vishnevsky and Maksim Reznik boiled us in cauldrons and fed us to animals,” Vitaly Milonov said Sunday, according to Agence France-Presse. Jewish groups and leaders…
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A cartoon called anti-Semitic that was published in the University of California – Los Angeles student newspaper has been strongly condemned by civic and campus organizations, among them a pro-Palestinian student group. The cartoon published Monday in UCLA’s Daily Bruin shows Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing in front of two stone…
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