Mark Wainberg, a trailblazing Canadian AIDS researcher, reportedly died Tuesday while swimming in rough water in Bal Harbour, Florida. He was 71. Wainberg, who lived in Montreal, was swimming Tuesday with his family when he started struggling with heavy surf and rip currents, Bal Harbour police chief Miguel De La Rosa said, according the the…
A Republican state lawmaker from North Carolina called Abraham Lincoln “the same sort of tyrant” as Adolf Hitler, sparking new controversy just days after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was skewered for appearing to downplay the Holocaust. “And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it?” Rep. Larry Pittman wrote in…
For the first time in years, the Jerusalem municipality is enforcing the law against public displays of leavened bread during Passover at the Old City’s Jaffa Gate this year. Municipal inspectors confiscated the wares of a bagel vendor at the site on Wednesday and prevented others from selling their goods. The bagels have become one…
Mark Lewis pulls no punches when fighting back against Nazis on social media. The 52-year-old partner at Seddons’ law firm in London has built a reputation of a harsh combatant against anti-Semitism and a strong defender of Israel. In a Times of Israel profile, Lewis is described as “UK’s foremost libel” specialist. A celebrity lawyer…
Arturo Di Modica, the sculptor of Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue is not too happy about the competition from the “Fearless Girl.” He announced this week he will be file a complaint with city officials against the upstart piece, claiming that it infringes on his artistic copyright. And he’s getting help from New York…
“Alt-right” figurehead and white nationalist Richard Spencer plans to speak at Auburn University in Alabama next week. In an online announcement, Spencer said that he will be speaking about President Trump, Syria and the “alt-right.” “If this event is anything like my other ones, it is going to be wild. So, I hope to see…
After decades of attacking the mainstream media for its corporate ownership, Bernie Sanders has found a way to speak without a filter to the public, launching his own talk show that’s now airing on Facebook Live. “It gives me an opportunity to speak directly to many millions of people about the work that we’re doing…
Jake Tapper has never been afraid of a tough interview. But the CNN politics anchor says that since the election he’s gone one step further, developing the spine to ask hard questions even if it means a guest won’t come back on his program. “One of the things that I have found myself more willing…
Amid broad condemnation for his assertion that Adolf Hitler did not use poison gas “on his own people,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer called billionaire Jewish casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to apologize. An Adelson spokesman confirmed the call, reported Politico’s Alex Isenstadt, but did not explain the reason behind it. Adelson is a major…
At a Passover Seder held on a street corner on the South Side of Chicago, a well known black rabbinical student urged African-Americans and Jews in Chicago to come together to prevent gun violence, during what many feel is a larger moment of national uncertainty. “Two peoples, African Americans and Jews, whose collective histories are…
Germany has some pretty obvious advice for Sean Spicer: Don’t go there. The spokesperson for Chancellor Angela Merkel joined the chorus denouncing the White House press secretary for his comments on Hitler and chemical weapons, saying it’s never smart to make Nazi comparisons. “Any comparison of current situations with Nazi crimes leads to nothing good,”…
