Comedian Sarah Silverman spoke out against Israel’s military occupation in a new Passover Haggadah timed with the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel conquered the West Bank. “Of all the people, Jews know the bitterness of being oppressed — and not being in our own country,” she wrote. “That’s what makes…
Rent in DC was never cheap, but Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump really splurged with their 7,000-square foot rental in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood. According to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Kushner and Trump are paying $15,000 in rent, a pretty significant amount for two federal government employees. However, with an estimated net worth…
David Friedman, sworn in last week as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel, has made his first staff pick, an assistant who also has an unorthodox background for a diplomatic job. Michael Wilner reports in the Jerusalem Post that Friedman’s pick for his chief of staff is Aryeh Lightstone, an Orthodox educator, who is also…
A New York City private day school serving Muslim students fired a publicly-funded English teacher for saying that the biblical story of Adam and Eve is “a myth,” the New York Post reported. Nina Kossman, a teacher with the city’s Department of Education assigned to teach English at the Razi School in Queens, was kicked…
More than a decade after they took study abroad courses with now-White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, eight alumni from the University of San Francisco are denouncing the controversial aide for his alleged Holocaust denial and disdain of Muslims. “Not many Americans have personally met Mr. Gorka, but we have. Not many people know who he…
Over the weekend, the New York Post sent out a series of unusual push alerts, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!” The alerts, which included a string of religious references, were quickly taken down. The website said their account had been “compromised.” So the @nypost got hacked pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x — Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2,…
Students at Seven Bridges Middle School in Chappaqua, New York are in for a lesson about anti-Semitism after a swastika was found scrawled on a bathroom in the upscale suburb that is famously home to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Discovered Sunday morning, the swastika was probably the work of some “young, stupid kid who doesn’t…
Andrew Auernheimer, a notorious computer hacker known for his anti-Semitic rhetoric, views his online trolling as an important political act. “Being offensive is a political act,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “If something pushes up against polite civilization, it’s for a purpose.” Auernheimer has been a consultant for the Daily Stormer,…
Julie Roginsky, Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor, has filed a sexual harassment suit against the network, its former CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes, and current co-president Bill Shine, NPR reports. The action alleges that beginning in 2015, when Roginsky, who is of Russian-Jewish heritage, started appearing as a temporary host of Fox’s “The Five,”…
(JTA) — A Palestinian woman who is being forced to leave the United States for not telling immigration authorities that she was imprisoned in Israel for two terror attacks told a U.S. Jewish group that they must stop the “Zionists” from their “land grab.” Rasmea Odeh was the keynote speaker on Sunday in Chicago at a summit of the…
President Trump has little room for niceties, either in the White House or in the real estate business. But according to reports, he always made an exception from his usual gruffness to accommodate the Sabbath observance of David Friedman, his new ambassador to Israel. It’s that closeness that has conservatives hopeful that he will push…
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