President-elect Donald Trump and Fed Chair Janet Yellen may emerge as unlikely allies as the incoming administration moves towards policies Federal Reserve officials have long advocated and the Fed contemplates a “high-pressure” economy to try to boost jobs and wages, at least in the short term. Top Trump adviser David Malpass on Thursday seemed to…
Palace intrigue has set in at the Donald Trump camp, as the Republican president-elect’s campaign aides and surrogates scramble for position in the next administration. Among the chatter is the rumor that son-in-law Jared Kushner could be the new White House chief of staff. According to Politico, while Trump met with Barack Obama in the…
— A neo-Nazi group in Germany posted a map on Facebook containing the addresses and locations of about 70 Jewish institutions and businesses. The list was published by the Berlin-based group on Wednesday on the 78th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom. Titled “Jews among us,” the list includes synagogues, day care centers, schools, memorials, businesses,…
After an ugly contest that filled the airwaves with attack ads, Democrat Josh Gottheimer has won a New Jersey congressional race against Republican incumbent Scott Garrett. After all the ballots were tallied on Wednesday, the Jewish former Bill Clinton aide held a 3% edge over his Tea Party rival, a bright spot for liberals in…
— Demonstrators chanted “Death to America! Death to Israel!” at the United Nations climate talks in Morocco. More than 200 people protested outside of the country’s parliament building in Rahat on Monday against the flying of the Israeli flag alongside the flags of 195 other countries represented at the climate talks, known as COP22, the French…
Iran wants all parties to stick to an international nuclear deal but has options if that does not happen, its foreign minister said on Thursday after the U.S. election victory of Donald Trump, who has vowed to pull out of the pact. “Of course Iran’s options are not limited but our hope and our desire…
— Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he is ready to work with President-elect Donald Trump on issues that help working families. But the independent senator from Vermont said he will oppose other policies championed by Trump. Trump “tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics…
The battle for Palestinian statehood consumed Yasser Arafat’s life and a new museum in his name puts the nature of that fight front and center – the sub-machine gun on his desk, the AK-47 assault rifle in the corner, the pistol at his side. Twelve years after his death in Paris at the age of…
— Vice President Joe Biden said the United States’ commitments to Israel will remain the same under President-elect Donald Trump. “I stand here to tell you that I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that in the Trump administration there will be no diminution of support as a consequence of this transition,” Biden said Wednesday night…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a telephone conversation with Hillary Clinton. During the phone call on Wednesday, less than a full day after the Democratic candidate for U.S. president conceded defeat, Netanyahu thanked Clinton for her support of Israel. Netanyahu also told Clinton that she has an open invitation to visit Israel, said a…
WASHINGTON ( — Seventy percent of Jewish voters favored Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, with 25 percent opting for Donald Trump, according to a poll. The national survey, which was commissioned by J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, again showed a community that trends more Democratic than the general population. Clinton…
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