At a press conference Thursday, President Donald Trump called on a reporter from the Orthodox magazine Ami. Within moments, he had interrupted the reporter and told him to sit down. “Are you are a friendly reporter?” Trump asked. “I’m friendly,” said Ami’s Jake Turx. “Watch how friendly he is,” Trump said. Turx went on to…
(JTA) — The Jewish reporter whom Donald Trump accused of lying at a press conference where the president was asked about anti-Semitism defended Trump’s actions as owing to a misunderstanding. Jake Turx, a reporter for Ami Magazine, told Fox News he believed Trump acted defensively before hearing out Turx out at the press conference because…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League decried President Donald Trump’s brusque treatment of a reporter who asked about a spike in anti-Semitic incidents and challenged him to offer an explicit condemnation of anti-Semitism. “It is honestly mind-boggling why President Trump prefers to shout down a reporter or brush this off…
Yeshiva University men beware: What’s said on your campus might not stay there. Since November, a student at the university, one of Orthodoxy’s flagship institutions, has been using a Facebook page to document incidents of racism, misogyny and homophobia on the New York City campus. Or, as the page puts it: “real things said by…
The newly formed Yeshiva University Feminism Club’s first bulletin board display was ripped down about an hour after it was put up. “It didn’t take very long. We’re disappointed, but unfortunately, not surprised,” the club wrote on Facebook on February 16. The display in consisted of quotes taken from the Facebook page “A YU Bochur…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there would be “no daylight” between the United States and Israel and planned to set up a number of working groups in areas of bilateral security and economic interests. Like their joint news conference prior to the leaders meeting on Wednesday, the joint…
75 years ago, Isaac Blum saved his sweetheart from being sent to a Nazi death camp. “I saw Roza The New York Times. “I went up to the German and told him, ‘That’s my sister,’ even though she was my girlfriend.” The soldier, seeing that Roza was able-bodied, decided to send the pair to a…
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday the United States still supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a day after President Donald Trump suggested he is open to new ways to achieve peace. “First of all, the two-state solution is what we support. Anybody that wants to say the…
France considers the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “confused and worrying,” its foreign minister said on Thursday, reacting to President Trump’s dropping of the America’s commitment to a two-state solution. Jean-Marc Ayrault met Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a G20 meeting of foreign ministers in Bonn where, he said, he got some reassurance…
David Friedman had an early test of his ability to speak diplomatically as he sought to wriggle his way out of the deep hole he dug for himself during years of acerbic far right-wing writing about Israel and the Jewish community. On the two-state solution, Friedman was forced to defend his views as a staunch…
(JTA) — A South Carolina man who ranted against Jews was arrested for buying a gun for a shooting “in the spirit of” a white supremacist who killed nine at a black church, according to a federal complaint. Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, a former convict with connections to white supremacists, was arrested Wednesday after he bought a handgun…
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