(JTA) — The deputy speaker of the Russian parliament intimated that Jews are using their positions in the media and government to continue the work of ancestors who “pulled down our churches.” Peter Tolstoy at a news conference Tuesday on plans to move a cathedral in St. Petersburg appeared to blame Jews for anti-religious persecution under…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian driver who drove his vehicle into a West Bank bus stop in an alleged car-ramming attack was shot and killed by Israeli troops stationed there. The incident occurred Wednesday evening near the Kochav Yaakov settlement, located southeast of Ramallah. No Israelis were reported injured in the incident. The driver reportedly swerved…
Following the controversy surrounding “alt-right” fascist Milo Yiannopoulos’s $250,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster with TED Books, another Simon & Schuster imprint. Gay’s book, “How To Be Heard” was scheduled for release in March 2018, but is now indefinitely shelved until Gay can find another publisher. In a statement to Buzzfeed, Gay said that…
California Democrat Adam Schiff is pushing forward with his mission to expose Russian involvement in the recent presidential elections. Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, tweeted Wednesday an update on this effort on Wednesday, making clear he and committee chairman Republican Devin Nunes are expecting to receive all relevant…
Israeli torture methods include slapping prisoners, shouting at them and forcing them to squat against a wall handcuffed for long periods of time, according to a Haaretz report that provided a rare look into torture in the Israeli prison system. Haaretz was witness to a conversation among interrogators that yielded new details about how interrogators…
Chuck Schumer has been called many things in his life. “Leftist” was never one of them. But in the post-election era with his new role as Senate Minority Leader, the Jewish New York senator is now proudly carrying the title, as described in a recent article in The Hill which explained how Schumer is emerging…
Jared Kushner’s name has been scrubbed from the national board of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, apparently following questions from the press about his continued involvement in the group. Ha’aretz had asked Kushner’s spokesman about his affiliation to the organization, given President Donald Trump’s desire that his son-in-law help him negotiate Middle East…
Tens of thousands of unknown Nazi persecution sites have been discovered by researchers working on an encyclopedia of Holocaust sites for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. According to a report by the Times of Israel, researchers were tasked with creating a record of labor camps, military brothels, ghettos, POW camps and concentration camps. The…
A Manhattan judge has sentenced a Mount Sinai Hospital doctor to two years in prison for sexually assaulting women he had put under sedation. David H. Newman pleaded guilty in December to sexually assaulting four patients in the emergency room where he worked. He administered a strong sedative to one woman who had gone to…
A federal judge has blocked litigation that the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s firm said could undermine a $7.2 billion settlement meant to benefit the Ponzi schemer’s former customers. In a decision made public on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan said A&G Goldman Partnership and Pamela Goldman cannot pursue a Florida lawsuit to…
Rahm Emanuel’s capacity for talking smack might have gotten him into a war of words this week as the Chicago and former White House chief of staff scrapped with President Donald Trump. The mayor ridiculed Trump over a recent obsession about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. “You didn’t get elected to debate…
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