(JTA) — Venezuelan far-left President Nicolas Maduro tapped for his new vice president former minister Tareck El Aissami, who has been accused of anti-Semitism and ties to Iran and the terrorist group Hezbollah. The appointment was announced last week, according to reports, including the Miami Herald. El Aissami is a known entity in the world of…
Actress Meryl Streep turned a Golden Globe acceptance speech into a scathing attack on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, saying she had been heartbroken by his imitation of a disabled reporter during his campaign. “There was one performance this year that stunned me,” Streep, 67, said as she was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime…
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – It was not the best of times for Jewish talent at Sunday evening’s Golden Globe awards. None of the dozen Jewish nominees, including such respected actors as Natalie Portman, Liev Schreiber or Jonah Hill, made it to the winner’s podium. It was left to two artists, hardly mentioned in the advance Jewish…
Charles Brotman has been the announcer at every presidential inauguration since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957. But Donald Trump has decided to go in a different direction, leaving the 81-year-old Brotman out in the cold, CNN reported. Brotman, who was once the voice of the Washington Senators baseball team, told reporters he was “heartbroken” and…
(JTA) — A rally was held in Whitefish, Montana, to show solidarity with the Jewish community, which has been targeted by a neo-Nazi website. The rally Saturday was sponsored by the Love Not Hate organization, which the Daily Stormer has accused of threatening white supremacist leader Richard Spencer’s mother, who lives in the town along with…
Heavily pregnant, actress Natalie Portman opted for a bright yellow dress cut for the 1960’s as she arrived on the Golden Globes red carpet. The stunning outfit a nod to her role as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic “Jackie.” Meanwhile, “Edge of Seventeen” lead actress Hailee Steinfeld opted for a flowing lilac Vera…
Two of the four Israeli soldiers killed in the truck ramming attack in Jerusalem were American citizens. The four soldiers were buried in separate cemeteries on Monday, a day after the attack on the promenade in the Arnon Hatnatziv neighborhood, which marks the border between the eastern and western halves of Jerusalem. A group of…
(JTA) — Trump transition officials have told the Obama White House that foreign policy matters that need to be brought to President-elect Donald Trump’s attention should be relayed through his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the New York Times reported. The article that appeared on the front page of the Sunday edition of the newspaper also reported…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 2,000 Israelis gathered in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to call for unity in society in the wake of the manslaughter conviction of an Israeli soldier who shot a downed Palestinian assailant. The rally on Saturday night was initiated by IDF Capt. Ziv Shilon, who lost his arm in a…
(JTA) — A Muslim teen from New York City who helped police catch a man who hit an Orthodox Jewish woman on the subway was honored by community leaders. Ahmed Khalifa, 17, stopped the Brooklyn-bound train on Dec. 28 so that the woman could get medical attention and then jumped off the train to follow…
(JTA) — The U.S. State Department condemned a truck-ramming attack that killed four Israeli soldiers in eastern Jerusalem. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms today’s horrific vehicular attack by a terrorist in Jerusalem. There is absolutely no justification for these brutal and senseless attacks,” Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark Toner said in a statement issued…
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