Julia Hahn, a Jewish journalist at Breitbart News, is reportedly being tipped for a job at the White House working for Steve Bannon, the firebrand ex-editor of the far right-wing news site. Politico says two sources briefed on the move told it that Hahn will be hired as a special assistant to the president and…
Rabbi Marvin Hier was bombarded with anti-Semitic messages after delivering an invocation at President Trump’s inauguration. After the prayer on Friday afternoon, the 77-year-old leader of the Simon Wiesenthal Center received hundreds of racist and anti-Semitic messages, the Times of Israel reported. Some called to “light the Jew on fire,” or claimed “the Jew put…
Novelist Philip Roth has lashed out at President Trump as an ignorant “con man” who could do untold damage to the country. The retired “Portnoy’s Complaint” author told the New Yorker that Trump makes other polarizing Republicans like Richard Nixon and George W. Bush look angelic by comparison. “Trump is ignorant of government, of history,…
President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Washington in early February during a phone call in which they discussed the importance of strengthening the U.S.-Israeli relationship, the White House said on Sunday. In his first call with Netanyahu since taking office on Friday, Trump stressed his “unprecedented commitment to Israel’s security.”…
(JTA) — A measles outbreak in Los Angeles County, California, is centered on the Orthodox Jewish community, according to reports. Some 20 people have been infected in the outbreak, with 18 in LA County, 15 of whom, according to the LA County Department of Public Health “either knew one another or had a clear social…
A vote on an Israeli bill to annex the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim has been postponed until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with new U.S. President Donald Trump. Right wing ministers agreed to defer the proposed legislation after Netanyahu lifted building restrictions in East Jerusalem, a move that would allow Israeli settlements…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A dual Israeli and Canadian citizen who joined a militia in an unnamed Arab country to fight the Islamic State is being held in prison there and could face the death penalty. The Jewish man, Ben Hassin, 21, is the son of an Israeli father and a mother who has lived in…
The White House said on Sunday that it is only in the early stages of talks to fulfill President Donald Trump’s pledge to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, an action that would likely spark anger in the Arab world. “We are at the very beginning stages of even discussing…
Her chic hairdo — with an unusual swept-up look — came courtesy of longtime Israeli stylist Mordechai Alvow, who has styled Trump’s hair for over a decade. Alvow told Us weekly that he let his client’s classic blue outfit dictate his approach to her hair. “The outfit had beautiful tailoring, including a super high collar…
(JTA) — U.S. President Donald Trump can appoint his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner as a White House senior adviser, the Justice Department concluded. The Justice Department issued its 14-page opinion on Friday, according to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council. The office said that a federal anti-nepotism law passed in 1967 “does not bar…
Israel approved building permits on Sunday for hundreds of homes in three East Jerusalem settlements, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump took office, expecting him to row back on the last administration’s criticism of such projects. The housing projects, on land that the Palestinians seek as part of a future state, had been taken…
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