News that President Trump plans to eliminate the office of the special envoy to counter anti-Semitism as part of his planned budget cuts was met with some serious pushback from Jewish leaders — and from the last person to hold the position. “I can’t believe someone at the White House won’t have better sense… This is…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency for Israel, will head the organization for an extra year. The board of governors announced Tuesday that Sharansky had agreed to its request that he stay a year past his second four-year term ending in June. The announcement came at the closing…
After a demonstration at Shalhevet High School outside of Los Angeles this week, the infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that it will hold a protest at Yeshiva University at the end of March. The group says Y.U. “encapsulates the perverse state” of American Jewry. Shalhevet High School was a wonderful success —…
“I’m incredibly angry,” said Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz as she opened a press conference in her home state Monday. Wasserman Schultz scheduled the event, which focused on battling anti-Semitism, last week, but when she sat down with Jewish leaders to address reporters, news came of another wave of bomb threats aimed at Jewish institutions,…
Following yesterday’s desecration of the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia, as well as the desecration of the Chessed Shel Emeth Cemetery a week before, the National Museum of American Jewish History (a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate located in Philadelphia) has set up a website dedicated to collecting the stories of the deceased whose graves were…
Women usually dump their married names after a divorce, but the ex-wife of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer – has gone in the other direction, changing her name from Silda Wall to Silda Wall Spitzer via a filing in an upstate court. “Petitioner simply desires to change her name from Silda Alice Wall, her legal…
Ed Koch, the crotchety Jewish mayor of New York City who died in 2013, harbored a decades-long dislike of Donald Trump. Now, he’s venting that dislike from beyond the grave. New writings from Koch’s archives on Trump emerged in a report in the New York Times Monday. “Donald Trump is one of the least likable…
After her big move to Washington, D.C., Ivanka Trump is looking to rent one of her apartments in New York City. And you could live in the first daughter’s digs – if you’ve got $13,000 a month to shell out in rent. The pad boasts 1,500 square feet of space, with two bedrooms, and is…
(JTA) — Jon Stewart isn’t so sure that Donald Trump loves the Jews. Visiting Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Monday from his “farm,” the former “Daily Show” host launched into one of his signature monologues, slamming the president for his repeated falsehoods. Stewart called Trump out for lying about the murder rate and the size of…
A new project by the National Museum of American Jewish History aims to collect the stories of the people buried in the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. The collection is hosted on Tumblr and allows anyone to contribute stories directly to the page. The site currently hosts two stories of Jewish women buried at the cemetery…
Much has been said on the Trump-Hitler comparison. Is it fair? Is it useful? Earlier this month a prominent Hitler scholar offered a detailed comparison in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Just this week a card game designer sent a Hitler-themed board game to U.S. senators, urging them to resist Trump. Of course, Trump…
