(JTA) — Executives from 141 Jewish community centers signed a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressing frustration with efforts combating a rash of bomb threats. The letter, sent Wednesday by the JCC Association of North America, the national organization of Jewish community centers, requested a meeting with Sessions and urged the Justice Department to do more to…
Boris Ephsteyn, President Donald Trump’s cable avatar, has gained a reputation as a crass presence off the screen, with bookers at multiple networks fuming about nasty attitude and bigoted remarks from the Russian-Jewish communications flack. “He calls women girls, and he has no decorum about how he speaks to people,” MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid told…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League became the second establishment Jewish organization to speak out against Israel’s new anti-BDS law. “Israel’s democracy, pluralism, open society serve as best defense against #BDS,” the group said on Twitter on Wednesday, using the acronym for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. “New law harms rather than helps.” Israel’s…
Some popular Middle Eastern airlines completely erase Israel’s name off otherwise comprehensive world maps, regardless of if they fly there or not. Why is this? For example, Qatar Airways and Saudia and Kuwait Airways all omit Israel, the Economist reported. Still other airlines take another approach. Egypt Air does include Israel on its map —…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson may be questioned in connection with a corruption investigation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli media reported. Police investigators have reportedly contacted authorities in the United States to obtain a deposition from Adelson, a Las Vegas gaming magnate and the owner of the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom….
Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, pledged on Wednesday to oppose David Friedman as President Trump’s pick for next United States ambassador to Israel, becoming the second Jewish politician in the chamber to announce a “no” vote on the controversial nominee. “I have concluded that his past record would make it very difficult for him…
Three Democratic lawmakers questioned the White House on Wednesday over its handling of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s potential conflicts of interest now that he is serving as an official adviser. Jared Kushner, a real estate developer who advised Trump during the presidential campaign, was cleared by the U.S. Department of Justice in January to serve…
Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t a model student at Harvard – he ditched school as a sophomore to work on Facebook and before that got dragged before a university disciplinary board for making a Web site where undergrads could rate each others’s looks. But nothing succeeds like success, and the social network founder will return to the…
He was born when the Ottoman Empire still ruled modern-day Israel, the British held his native Iraq and Jews were spread throughout the Middle East. But the 117-year-old Rabbi Zecharia Barashi on Tuesday left a world very different from the one he found, as Israel’s oldest resident – and the world’s oldest Jew and rabbi…
(JTA) — The student government at the University of Texas in Austin unanimously passed a resolution in support of Jewish students on campus. The resolution passed on Tuesday came after a window was broken at the campus Hillel and following anti-Semitic posts on the UT 2020 Facebook page, the Daily Texan student newspaper reported. “Several…
After two far-right colleagues scolded her for showing her shoulders on the floor of parliament, Knesset member Stav Shaffir administered both a feminist tongue-lashing. “In honor of Women’s Day, two MKs, one a past pimp and the other from a party that prohibits women from contending, scolded me for wearing a dress with uncovered shoulders,”…
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