White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday during his daily press briefing that President Trump “was right” when he said that some of the anti-Semitic incidents in the United States may be “the reverse” of what they look like. Spicer said that the media should not “rush to judgement” when it comes to…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Longtime newscaster Ted Koppel told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that he and other opinionated TV hosts are “bad for America.” The 77-year-old former “Nightline” host, born to German-Jewish parents who fled to England during the rise of the Nazis, delivered the searing dis during a segment on…
Vice President Mike Pence’s promise that President Trump is “giving serious consideration” to the idea of relocating the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem won applauds from the AIPAC audience Sunday night. But the wording didn’t fool veteran Middle East watchers — they say the embassy ain’t going anywhere fast. One of them, Martin Indyk,…
(JTA) — The latest casualty in Israel’s “modesty wars” is a Smurfette, a blue cartoon creature who stars in the latest “Smurfs” movie. While a Smurfette — differentiated only by her long blonde hair and six cartoon eyelashes — graced billboards across Israel for “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” along with her three presumably male Smurfs, she was…
(JTA) — An Arizona teenager arrested for twisting a menorah in the front yard of a family’s home into a swastika posted an apology on Facebook. Clive Jamar Wilson, 19, one of four teens arrested on March 17 for the Dec. 30 incident, told the Ellis family of Chandler that he was sorry, the East Valley Tribune…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – “Many voices, one mission.” If AIPAC’s 2017 annual policy conference slogan, popping up on the conference app on activists’ smartphones, isn’t clear enough, the morning pick-me-up video it runs before conference business begins is pretty straightforward. In the video, activists are gravitating through sunny streets here toward the convention center, and titles float…
Veteran TV anchor Ted Koppel told Fox News TV host Sean Hannity he is bad for America. In an interview that aired on CBS’ “Sunday Morning,” Hannity asked Koppel, “You think I’m bad for America.” “Yeah,” Koppel answered. “You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts,” Koppel continued. .@seanhannity:…
A rift has opened up in the Treasury Department between those who back the Republican Party’s traditional1 Wall Street-friendly policies and those aligned with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s economic nationalist agenda, according to insider administration sources. “I think Gary and Steve (Mnuchin) view most of these things the same way and are pretty…
President Trump feels abandoned by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, after the White House senior adviser dallied on an Aspen skiing trip while the administration’s health care plan circled the drain last week. ⛷ A post shared by Lara Trump (@laraleatrump) on Mar 21, 2017 at 9:37am PDT “He is upset that his son-in-law and senior…
(JTA) — A truck belonging to the city of Paris plowed through a Jewish cemetery near the French capital and toppled 13 tombstones in what authorities said was an accident. No one was injured in the incident, which occurred March 20 in the northeastern suburb of Pantin. The driver of the municipal truck veered into…
(JTA) — Nazi symbols were spray-painted on a monument to Holocaust victims in Ukraine that was erected near their mass graves. The letter X was painted on the Star of David emblazoned on the monument near the western city of Ternopil. A swastika was drawn on the Hebrew-language section of the monument and the SS…
