Israel’s parliament speaker went on national radio on Thursday to try to quell anger over a ban on female staff wearing skirts deemed too short, a move that has caused a scandal in a legislature where informal dress has long been the fashion. The furore began about 10 days ago when Knesset security guards began…
Reporter Julia Ioffe has been fired by Politico after she suggested on Twitter that President-elect Donald Trump is having sex with his daughter Ivanka. Her tweet followed a report in The Hill that Ivanka will get an office in the White House in the space traditionally reserved for the First Lady. Trump’s team denied the…
NEW YORK – Accepting an award from a conservative think tank, Israel’s U.S. ambassador attacked the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group that has called several controversial right-wing activists “anti-Muslim extremists.” On Tuesday, Ron Dermer accepted the Freedom Flame Award from the Center for Security Policy, whose president, Frank Gaffney, appears on SPLC’s anti-Muslim…
New York’s hate graffiti wave got its Broadway debut on Wednesday, after a Manhattan woman found a swastika scribbled onto the side of a building on the Upper West Side. Neighborhood resident Lauren Monchik told the Forward she discovered the swastika on the building, located on the intersection of 104th Street and Broadway. She notified…
— A longtime rabbi in West Hempstead, New York, suffered head and hip injuries after being struck by a car in a hit-and-run accident in front of his synagogue. Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer, 70, who has led the Young Israel of West Hempstead on Long Island for more than 30 years, was listed in serious but stable…
President-elect Donald Trump and Silicon Valley executives met at his Manhattan tower on Wednesday to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the presidential campaign. The meeting may skirt the numerous disagreements the tech industry has with Trump — including on immigration, the trade relationship with…
CNN political reporter Jake Tapper is commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre by tweeting out the names and photos of the 26 victims who perished in the shooting at the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school. The victims included 20 first graders and six educators, including Sandy Hook’s principal Dawn Hochsprung. The youngest victim…
WARSAW, Poland — A marble plaque commemorating the late Joseph Rotblat, a co-creator of the atomic bomb and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was unveiled at the University of Warsaw. Rotblat, a Warsaw native, graduated from the university, where the plaque was unveiled Tuesday. “Joseph Rotblat, who in 1938 defended at our university a doctorate in…
Israel has sufganiyot — and Holland has “oil bulbs.” For Jews and others in the Netherlands, the fried dough treats are as ubiquitous here as they are in the Holy Land, JTA reports. Hundreds of food stalls hawk the delicacies known in Dutch as “oliebollen” every year from November to January. “I often don’t bother…
JERUSALEM — Talmudist and Torah scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is recovering after suffering a stroke a week ago. Steinsaltz, 79, who also goes by the surname Even-Israel, was moved from the Intensive Care Unit to a regular ward at Shaarey Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem on Monday. He reportedly is breathing on his own and is…
California Rep. Adam Schiff is in the spotlight, leading the Democratic call for a full investigation into Russian intelligence involvement in the presidential election. The Jewish seven-term lawmaker, described by the Fresno Bee’s editorial Tuesday as a “measured politician not prone to hyper-partisanship” has emerged as Trump’s chief critic on the Hill, demanding Congress use…
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