— Austrian lawmakers voted to dispossess the home where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born. The vote Wednesday night followed years of the German border town of Braunau and later the national government trying to purchase the home from its owners. In October, the Austrian government initiated legal procedures to dispossess the home from its…
WASHINGTON — Pleading with American Jews to “have faith that brighter days are ahead,” President Barack Obama bid emotional farewells to the Jewish community at his final Hanukkah parties as president. Jewish community leaders, lawmakers, top Jewish Democrats and major backers of Obama’s campaigns attended two separate parties on Wednesday at the White House. The…
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s recently announced new White House senior adviser on policy, has a big fan, perhaps even a friend, he would like to ignore. According to a Mother Jones report Wednesday, Miller won praise from Richard Spencer, who said he has “no doubt” that Miller, who is Jewish, “will do a great job”…
Ben Shapiro hit back at the faculty of Yeshiva University, blasting them after more than two dozen professors — including University President Richard Joel — criticized the rightwing pundit’s comments about transgender people at a speech on campus hosted last week. “The real reason that Y.U. condemned me is that it’s very rare that a Modern Orthodox…
Political writer and Forward 50 honoree Julia Ioffe ran into some trouble on Wednesday, when she posted an obscene Tweet implying that President-elect Donald Trump had an incestuous relationship with daughter Ivanka Trump. She’s now deleted that post, but here are some of her most daring post-election tweets. Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or…
Julia Ioffe, a widely read political writer, got the axe from her position at Politico on Wednesday after she posted an obscene Tweet that imputed either incest or nepotism to Ivanka Trump’s decision to join her father in the White House while his wife, Melania Trump, stays in New York. Here are five facts about…
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian federal court has closed a criminal suit that accused banker Joseph Safra of being part of a conspiracy to pay bribes to Brazilian tax officials, which the Jewish billionaire and philanthropist has always denied. “Mr. Safra was not investigated, he was not even heard, and even so, he was…
– The city council of Tromso in Norway adopted a resolution calling on its residents to boycott products made in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The resolution was adopted Wednesday, according to the municipality’s website. Seventeen members voted against the resolution, which stated that “the municipal council encourages Tromso Municipality’s residents to boycott…
President Barack Obama praised Jews for supporting religious freedom at his final White House Hanukkah party — and did his best to ignore the man who will succeed him. “The first chapter of the Hanukkah story was written 22 centuries ago, when rulers banned religious rituals and persecuted Jews who dared to observe their faith,”…
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…
