Jared Kushner’s name has been scrubbed from the national board of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, apparently following questions from the press about his continued involvement in the group. Ha’aretz had asked Kushner’s spokesman about his affiliation to the organization, given President Donald Trump’s desire that his son-in-law help him negotiate Middle East…
Tens of thousands of unknown Nazi persecution sites have been discovered by researchers working on an encyclopedia of Holocaust sites for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. According to a report by the Times of Israel, researchers were tasked with creating a record of labor camps, military brothels, ghettos, POW camps and concentration camps. The…
A Manhattan judge has sentenced a Mount Sinai Hospital doctor to two years in prison for sexually assaulting women he had put under sedation. David H. Newman pleaded guilty in December to sexually assaulting four patients in the emergency room where he worked. He administered a strong sedative to one woman who had gone to…
A federal judge has blocked litigation that the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s firm said could undermine a $7.2 billion settlement meant to benefit the Ponzi schemer’s former customers. In a decision made public on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan said A&G Goldman Partnership and Pamela Goldman cannot pursue a Florida lawsuit to…
Rahm Emanuel’s capacity for talking smack might have gotten him into a war of words this week as the Chicago and former White House chief of staff scrapped with President Donald Trump. The mayor ridiculed Trump over a recent obsession about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. “You didn’t get elected to debate…
Setting a new tone in its relationship with Israel, the Trump administration passed on an opportunity to criticize Israel for its latest settlement expansion plan. While previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican, have consistently condemned new Israeli building in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Trump White House made no such comment. Asked…
The president of the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS called the immigration-related executive orders President Donald Trump plans to sign today “a total violation of our values.” “We find it particularly ironic that he’s chosen the week of Holocaust Remembrance Day to wall out refugees and immigrants and to put a ban on refugees,” said…
Gary Cohn, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Economic Council, will receive severance in excess of $100 million as he exits Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street firm where he was second in command. The finance behemoth will give him $100 million, and will also permit him to cash in on $23 million of…
(JTA) – The absence of a European Union definition for anti-Semitism is an “absurd” situation that needs correcting, which also would honor Holocaust victims, the president of the European Jewish Congress told European lawmakers. During his address Wednesday at the European Parliament ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, EJC president Moshe Kantor referenced the 2013 removal…
(JTA) — More than 200,000 people from around the world have posted on social media photos of themselves holding signs saying “We Remember” in dozens of languages ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The social media campaign was launched two weeks ago by the World Jewish Congress in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is marked…
(JTA) — The U.S. State Department is reviewing the Obama administration’s decision to send $221 million to the Palestinian Authority on the morning of Donald Trump’s inauguration. The State Department said it would look into the payment, which had previously been held up by congressional Republicans, and make adjustments in line with the Trump administration’s priorities,…
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