(JTA) — Rabbi Herman Schaalman, who was the oldest living Reform rabbi, has died at the age of 100. Schaalman, a leader in the Reform movement for seven decades, died on Tuesday, according to the Union for Reform Judaism. He served a small congregation in Iowa before moving to Chicago to become the Midwest…
The “alt-right” started 2017 strong. Donald Trump, hero to the white nationalist movement, was inaugurated as president. Richard Spencer, would-be head of the movement, launched a new website and announced plans for a national tour. And the Reddit channel altright, a main congregating point for the largely-online movement, saw 5,000 new subscribers in just one…
Like many in his administration, President Donald Trump often brags about his disdain for political correctness, and sometimes the leader of the free world is likely aware that he’s offending people. For example: on International Holocaust Remembrance Day last Friday, he spoke about the awfulness of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate European Jewry — without…
(JTA) — A political cartoon dealing with Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians appeared on the New York state Regents exam, reportedly causing some students discomfort. The cartoon that appeared on the exam administered Jan. 24 shows three Israeli soldiers — identified by a Star of David on the back of one — huddling behind an…
Steve Mnuchin is headed to the Treasury with or without approval of Senate Democrats. On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee gave the Jewish financier the green light toward his confirmation as Treasury Secretary in Donald Trump’s cabinet. The approval was given to Mnuchin outside the committee’s regular procedure after Senate Democrats boycotted the meeting for…
Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, has been in rare form lately, taking on President Donald Trump’s White House for its embrace of “alternative facts” and attacks on the media. Now he’s fact-checking Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s claim that the media invented the term “ban” to describe the president’s executive orders on immigration and travel…
A United States Holocaust Memorial Museum poster detailing the “early warning signs of fascism” has gone viral on Twitter, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets. Among some of the “warning signs” are “powerful and continuing nationalism,” “disdain for human rights,” “identification of enemies as a unifying cause,” “rampant sexism,” “disdain for intellectuals and…
Jason Kander, the former Missouri Senate candidate, wants his would-have-been colleagues in Washington, D.C. to stop any Supreme Court nominee put forth by President Donald Trump. With just 1,373 days until Americans vote in the 2020 election, responsible thing to do is wait until then to consider any #SCOTUS nominee. — Jason Kander (@JasonKander) January…
Protesters gathered on Monday night in front of the Brooklyn home of Senator Chuck Schumer, calling on the Senate Minority Leader to thwart President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. Slogans included “Resist or resign,” “Chuck! Chuck! Don’t sell us out! We need a fighter to knock Trump out!” and “No hate! No fear! Refugees are welcome…
Harvard students are imploring White House senior adviser Jared Kushner to be “true to his school,” urging in him in an open letter to ensure that President Donald Trump upholds values of tolerance and openness cherished by the university community. “We, the undersigned graduates of Harvard College, are your classmates and roommates, friends and acquaintances….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman have approved plans for another 3,000 new homes in the West Bank. The approvals were announced on Tuesday, ahead of the evacuation of the Amona outpost, and is seen as an effort to placate the government’s harder right wing and settlers angry…
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