Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart’s tech editor and darling of the “alt-right,” the label preferred by contemporary white supremacists, has some advice for American Jews: Change up those voting patterns. “Stop voting Democrat for a start, Jews keep voting for the Democrats,” he said in a talk at Western Carolina University last month. “Progressives care a lot…
Jared Kushner is a father of three in his mid-thirties, ostensibly in line to play an important role in peace negotiations in the Middle East — but to Kushner’s father-in-law Donald Trump, he’s still a boy. “He’s a good boy and he will agree an Israel agreement that no one else would pull off,” Donald…
Congressman Jerry Nadler told CNN this morning that he agreed with his colleague John Lewis that Donald Trump is not a “legitimate” president. “The president-elect, though legally elected, is not legitimate,” Nadler said on CNN’s “New Day.” Nadler represents the most heavily Jewish district in the United States Congress. His comments came on the Martin…
Milo Yiannopoulos was apparently too much for one college to handle, as heavy protests led to the cancellation of the Breitbart editor’s stop at the University of California at Davis. “My event at UC Davis tonight has been cancelled after violence from left-wing protestors,” Yiannopoulos wrote on Facebook. “There are reports of hammers, smashed windows…
You can take the man out of business, but you can’t take business out of the man. It seems that a stiff prison sentence for running a Ponzi scheme wasn’t enough to dissuade Bernie Madoff from entrepreneurial ventures. The disgraced investor apparently seized control of the hot chocolate market in the North Carolina lockup where…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The late special prosecutor into the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center, Alberto Nisman, will be remembered both in Argentina and Israel on the second anniversary of his still-mysterious death, as the investigation into whether it was a murder or suicide continues. Federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, who is investigating the cause…
(JTA) — Vandals spray painted illegible graffiti on the front of a Philadelphia mikvah building. The mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath, currently is under construction in the middle of a strip mall in the Somerton neighborhood of Philadelphia, the local CBS affiliate reported. There are about one dozen other storefronts in the strip mall, but…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Mexican Jews have launched a 24-hour emergency hotline to request personalized support in case of attempted suicide, domestic violence, depression, eating disorders and other emergency cases. The 1118 line launched last week, the Enlace Judio news website reported Monday. “At first we thought of the number 911, but…
(JTA) — A state-owned newspaper in Austria published an Op-Ed arguing that the cause of jihadist terrorism in Europe is incomparable with “expressions of desperate resistance” by Palestinians against Israelis. The Op-Ed titled The “Islamist Terrorism” by journalist Liza Ulitzka appeared last week in the Wiener Zeitung daily, which is owned by the office of Austria’s Federal…
(JTA) — Basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire made an unlikely move in August, when he retired from the NBA and signed with an Israeli team. But the 34-year old former New York Knicks center raves about his “adopted homeland” in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated. “I’ve never felt more at home,” Stoudemire told the reporter over…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The difference between the proportion of Republicans and Democrats who sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians is the largest it has been in surveys dating to 1978, according to a new report. While 74 percent of Republicans sympathize more with Israel than the Palestinians, the number is 33 percent for Democrats, according to a Pew…
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