WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the first time in 29 years, Rep. Eliot Engel did not position himself to shake the president’s hand at a joint meeting of Congress, citing Donald Trump’s slowness to comment on threats to Jews, among other reasons. ‘I’ve decided not to stand on the aisle of the House chamber to shake…
A closed-door comment made by the president during a meeting with state attorneys general, may indicate that President Donald Trump does not think the bomb threats against Jewish community centers and schools are credible — although he did condemn them. Trump was asked during the meeting about the wave of anti-Semitic threats to Jewish institutions…
While his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday focused primarily on laying out his domestic and economic vision, President Trump also reiterated an isolationist approach that will guide America’s relations with the world. “My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America,” Trump said….
(JTA) — Legislation to assist survivors in obtaining restitution of assets stolen in the Holocaust was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today Act, or JUST, which was introduced this week, requires the State Department to report on the progress of certain European countries on the…
(JTA) — The NAACP named the director of the Reform movement’s Religion Action Center, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, to its board. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced on Tuesday that it was appointing Pesner, who has led the RAC since 2015 and served as senior vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism since…
President Trump opened his speech to a joint session of Congress with a condemnation of attacks against Jews and other minorities. “Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a Nation divided on policies, we are a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s prime minister, defense minister and army chief of staff did not update the Security Cabinet about the serious threat of Hamas tunnels from Gaza, the nation’s state comptroller said in a report on the 2014 Gaza War. The Security Cabinet did not have enough information about the threat posed by the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A senior Republican congressman and a Jewish defense group called for the funding of federal positions to monitor anti-Semitism a day after reports that the Trump administration was considering nixing the international anti-Semitism monitor role. “Ever since its creation under President George W. Bush, the Special Envoy on anti-Semitism has made clear…
(JTA) — Two congressmen introduced a measure to establish and provide money for an international fund to promote peace between Israel and Palestinians. Reps. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., and Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., introduced a bill on Monday urging the United States to establish — in cooperation with the Israeli government, the Palestinian Authority, regional governments and the international…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions once praised laws that kept Jewish refugees from entering the United States as “good for America,” a contention that attests to the ex-Alabama senator’s nativist convictions. Sessions was referring in his remarks, first made two years ago on Steve Bannon’s Breitbart News radio program, to the National Origins Act, which established…
A Twitter bot that drew international attention last month for its tweets about Holocaust refugees amidst the rollout of Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration has trained its fire on Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In January, the bot tweeted photos of the passengers on the ill-fated 1939 journey of the St. Louis, a boat full…
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