A Jewish White House official has been identified as a source for claims from House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes that President Trump and his aides were captured by U.S. surveillance in the lead-up to the presidential election. Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, was identified to the New…
Jared Kushner has lost so many friends since he became a close adviser to President Trump that he has even coined a term for it: exfoliation. “We live in a world and time that are interesting,” he is said to have told investor Wiley Cerilli. “I am seeing which friendships break in the wind.” Kushner…
Max Temkin, the co-founder of Cards Against Humanity, has pledged to buy and publish the personal browsing histories of all U.S. lawmakers and their aides who voted Tuesday to get rid of privacy protections for Internet users. Cards Against Humanity is a dark, sometimes racy, sometimes scatalogical, often profane party game that’s a kind of…
Archaeologists working in Italy have discovered a Jewish cemetery from the Middle Ages, complete with dozens of skeletons and centuries-old evidence of the persecution the community faced in a city ruled by the Catholic Church. “I am very happy we have found important information about this cemetery, perhaps for the first time ever,” Daniela Rossi,…
(JTA) — French authorities recorded a 58 percent drop last year in anti-Semitic incidents in a report that identified only far-right perpetrators and questioned the existence of a new anti-Semitism by Muslims over Israel’s actions. The annual report by the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights published Thursday on its website counted 335 anti-Semitic incidents…
In a bizarre video released this week, American socialite Paris Hilton teamed up with the Israeli research center the Weizman Institute of Science to announce the creation of a super-condensed type of sparkling water called the Nanodrop. The announcement turned out to be an early April Fool’s joke, the Jerusalem Post reported, and was actually…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Julia Hahn, the onetime Breitbart firebrand who is now a special assistant to President Donald Trump and reports to Trump’s influential consigliere Stephen Bannon, is elusive. She did not cooperate with profiles like this one in the New Yorker that were inevitable for an increasingly influential 25-year-old. Information came from classmates at L.A. prep…
A month after Milo Yiannopoulos lost a book deal thanks to comments defending pedophilia, the ex-Breitbart editor now has a publisher for his memoir titled “Dangerous.” “They’d be mad not to, wouldn’t they?” Yiannopoulos wrote to BuzzFeed News, after the news that Regnery Publishing would release his book. The firm has a reputation for printing…
The white nationalist whose church was burned to the ground in North Dakota said he has hopes of rebuilding the structure — and naming it after President Trump. “If they want to keep pushing I just may very well retain the lot and build a building there and still make The President Donald J. Trump…
A fight with the Jewish Defense League outside the American Israel Public Affairs Committee left one Palestinian-American protester bloodied and bruised and resulted in the arrest of two Jewish men. A video of the fight was uploaded on Twitter by a freelance journalist. A pretty rough fight broke out early on. Here’s what I saw….
(JTA) — The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association approved a resolution affirming the full equality of transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals. The resolution was approved Tuesday at the association’s annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, which ends on Wednesday. Non-binary individuals identify as neither male nor female. The resolution commits the RRA to work for “full inclusion,…
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