JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yona Metzger, a former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, will be the first Israeli chief rabbi to serve jail time under a plea deal on corruption charges. In the deal with prosecutors announced Tuesday, Metzger will serve 3 1/2 years in prison and pay a $1.3 million fine. He pleaded guilty to…
The Jewish social justice organization Bend the Arc Jewish Action called President Trump’s repeated charge that undocumented immigrants voted en masse in the November elections a “dangerous lie” in a statement issued Tuesday. Trump told lawmakers Monday that he lost the popular vote because millions of immigrants had voted illegally, according to The New York…
A wild brawl erupted between a group of Orthodox Jewish men and a London traffic officer after the cop allegedly ran over a man dressed in traditional Jewish clothing with his moped. “He revved up his bike and drove straight towards him at full speed,” a witness told The Sun. The witness said the traffic…
(JTA) — What is the best way to instruct Donald Trump on the virtues of a tolerant and multicultural society with a strong tradition of resolving conflicts through compromise? That was the question that guided the writers of the Dutch television talk show “Sunday with Lubach” to produce a fake promotional video about their country that…
A large swastika was found drawn into the snow on the football field Friday at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. “This really brought me back to reality that this is something that does exist and I do have to be concerned about it,” Laura Medicoff, head of the school’s Jewish Students Association, told…
The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat on Tuesday vowed to oppose any infrastructure plan by President Donald Trump that would rely on “tax credits for developers” to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges, airports and other such structures. Senator Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made the comments in a press conference to unveil a $1 trillion infrastructure plan…
John Podhoretz, the neoconservative editor of Commentary Magazine, said White House adviser Kellyanne Conway might be a red, but not the Republican kind. I remember when Kellyanne Conway was a conservative, not a Stalinist. https://t.co/MLesVuwIjc — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 24, 2017 Podhoretz, part of the Never Trump movement, was referring to a conversation with…
Nominees for the 2017 Academy Awards, announced this morning, include Natalie Portman and Andrew Garfield. Portman was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her take on the title role in “Jackie,” and Garfield was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge.” Gibson was…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – “Cantor Kaufman!” Rabbi Jonah Pesner shouted across the intersection of 3rd and D in Washington’s Northwest quadrant, packed sidewalk to sidewalk with women in pink pussycat hats and their male friends. “A song!” Jason Kaufman, the cantor at Beth El in Alexandria, Virginia, draped in a rainbow tallit and in the middle…
(JTA) — The Woodmont Country Club, an exclusive, mostly Jewish golf club in Rockville, Maryland has invited former President Barack Obama to join after all. The club had been locked in a fierce debate over whether to admit Obama for membership because of what some called his bad relationship with Israel as president. In an email…
Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since U.S. President Donald Trump took office signaling he would be less critical of such projects than his predecessor. A statement from the Defence Ministry, which administers lands Israel captured in a 1967 war, said the…
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