(JTA) — Pressed to explain his false claim that something terrible had happened in Sweden last week, President Donald Trump traced the canard back to the reporting of Ami Horowitz, a gonzo Jewish-American filmmaker who spoke about Sweden’s problem with Muslim immigrants on Fox News. On Saturday, during a campaign-style speech in Florida on border security…
Former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke wants to end the debate. Is President Trump Anti Semitic? Yes, avowed white supremacist Duke says. But is that such a bad thing? In a February 20 podcast, Duke started by offering his very own definition of anti-Semitism. “What is anti-Semitism? What is the proper definition of an…
Alex Trebek’s rap career might have started from the bottom, but now he’s definitely here. The “Jeopardy” host spat some lyrics from Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West on Monday’s show, during a segment called “Let’s Rap Kids!” As one might expect, it was all done in a very precise, professional fashion. “6’ 7’ 8’…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump denounced anti-Semitism a day after bomb threats to at least 10 Jewish community centers across the country and a large-scale cemetery vandalism in the St. Louis area. Under pressure to condemn anti-Semitism in the wake of what has been called an uptick in incidents since he was elected, Trump told…
Looking like Melania Trump is propelling an Israeli actress and model based in New York City to national acclaim. Mira Tzur first started acting the part when John Di Domenico, a long-time Donald Trump impersonator, asked her to play Melania alongside him in a video, her publicist wrote the Forward in an email. Tzur, 45,…
A JCC outside San Diego evacuated the building and called the police after receiving an emailed bomb threat. It was the second threat the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, California received in the past month. The JCC received a bomb threat. SDPD did a sweep of the building and determined the threat…
The left-wing Jewish activist group IfNotNow staged a street theater protest Tuesday morning at the law offices of Donald Trump’s Israel ambassador nominee, David Friedman. A group of just over a dozen young activists held a “mock confirmation hearing” for Friedman, with activists playing Friedman and the U.S. Senators who must approve his nomination. “David…
The leaders of Egypt and Jordan reaffirmed their continued support on Tuesday for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested abandoning it. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah discussed the issue and coordination of their positions on the Middle East peace process at a meeting in…
(JTA) — Jewish groups called on President Donald Trump to condemn the wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers across the country, and to speak out against anti-Semitism. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt applauded a tweet by First Daughter Ivanka Trump in which she called for the protection of Jewish institutions and used…
(JTA) — A Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who made false bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, made the offer on Monday, hours after bomb threats were called in to…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An Israeli soldier who shot a downed Palestinian terrorist was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Elor Azaria, 20, who was convicted last month in an Israeli court of manslaughter, was sentenced on Tuesday by a panel of three judges at the Israel Defense Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv. The judges also…
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