Signaling new priorities in dealing with the Jewish organized world, the new Trump administration made the Zionist Organization of America as the first Jewish group it will formally engage with. According to Axios White House aide Anthony Scaramucci, who serves as assistant to the president, will meet in New York with Morton Klein, president of…
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s team spoke often about moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. But since Trump took office, the contentious issue is more nuanced and may already be moving to the back burner. In a statement before a first post-inauguration phone call between Trump and Israeli Prime…
Bernie Sanders attacked Donald Trump on Sunday for breaking his promise to end corruption in Washington, D.C. by seating at his inauguration a coterie of wealthy donors. “I found it somewhat amusing that Mr. Trump, President Trump, was punching the establishment,” the Vermont senator told John Dickerson of CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “But right behind…
Richard Spencer’s white supremacist compatriots are now raising money to identify the man who punched the “alt-right” founder in the face at an Inauguration Day demonstration in Washington, D.C. “The ANTIFA thug who violently assaulted Spencer hid his face behind a mask, but some think they caught a glimpse of his face,” the appeal for…
If you’re a rich young tech investor whose brother is the son-in-law of the leader of the free world, how to spend inauguration weekend? Saturday with the anti-Trump protesters, and Sunday hanging with your big bro in the White House. Joshua Kushner, brother to Ivanka Trump’s husband, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, played both…
(JTA) — The musical film “La La Land” received 14 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, director, actor and actress. The songs in the film are written by Jewish composer Justin Hurwitz, who was roommates with director Damien Chazelle at Harvard. The lyrics are written by Benj Pasek, who is Jewish, and Justin Paul. Chazelle’s parents…
(JTA) — An Irish university cancelled a conference that questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel after management determined the university security would not be able to handle the expected protests. The University College Cork said last week that the conference scheduled for March cannot take place at that time, the Irish Examiner reported….
ROME (JTA) – Hundreds of people ran through the streets of downtown Rome over the weekend to commemorate the Holocaust and look to the future. Dubbed “Run for Mem”, Sunday’s road race was part of a wide range of events on and around International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place on January 27, the anniversary of the 1945…
Julia Hahn, a Jewish journalist at Breitbart News, is reportedly being tipped for a job at the White House working for Steve Bannon, the firebrand ex-editor of the far right-wing news site. Politico says two sources briefed on the move told it that Hahn will be hired as a special assistant to the president and…
Rabbi Marvin Hier was bombarded with anti-Semitic messages after delivering an invocation at President Trump’s inauguration. After the prayer on Friday afternoon, the 77-year-old leader of the Simon Wiesenthal Center received hundreds of racist and anti-Semitic messages, the Times of Israel reported. Some called to “light the Jew on fire,” or claimed “the Jew put…
Novelist Philip Roth has lashed out at President Trump as an ignorant “con man” who could do untold damage to the country. The retired “Portnoy’s Complaint” author told the New Yorker that Trump makes other polarizing Republicans like Richard Nixon and George W. Bush look angelic by comparison. “Trump is ignorant of government, of history,…
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