More than four months after the murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich in Washington, D.C., his family, friends and a Republican lobbyist will go knocking on doors next week in hope of finding clues missed by the police in this unsolved mystery. On November 21, Joel and Mary Rich, parents of the slain 27-year old…
JERUSALEM — Alumni of a Holocaust survivor’s scholarship that pays for Israeli students to pursue a doctorate at a U.S. institution – on condition that they return to Israel after their studies, are gathering in Jerusalem to remember their benefactor. Edward David Fischman died in 1995 with no direct descendants, after losing his only daughter…
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister said his country should reach an agreement with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump to freeze building in isolated West Bank settlements in exchange for continued building in settlement blocs. Avigdor Liberman made the remarks on Wednesday at a briefing with reporters, the first since his Yisrael Beiteinu party…
WASHINGTON — A number of top Jewish Republican donors are on President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee. Nine out of the 20 names listed on the transition team’s announcement released Monday are Jewish. Several of them are on the Republican Jewish Coalition board. The committee plans and fund-raises for the inauguration. Typically, incoming presidents reserve spots…
WASHINGTON — Mike Huckabee apologized for posting a false news report blaming “liberal, Jewish” students for an alleged hate crime that involved a mention of President-elect Donald Trump. The story, appearing on the Conservative Tribune website, blamed an attack in March at Northwestern University on “liberal, Jewish Northwestern students” seeking to smear Trump and his…
Leonard Cohen died last week after a “sudden” fall in the night at his Los Angeles home, his manager revealed. The beloved ‘Hallelujah’ songwriter had been battling cancer in the months before he passed away, but there was little sign that he was near death. No cause was offered after his death on Nov. 7,…
Donald Trump’s presidential effort has been notorious for its infighting, and that doesn’t seem likely to change as he prepares to take the Oval Office next January. As different advisers to the president-elect compete to influence his decisions on appointments, one aide described the process to Politico as an “absolute knife fight.” At the center…
Abraham Foxman, the former head of the Anti-Defamation League, says he will skip the Zionist Organization of America’s annual gala after the group invited Steve Bannon to the event. Foxman said he was misled by ZOA organizers who framed the event as a tribute to ZOA board member Bernie Marcus — then offered a platform…
— Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed a McGill University independent student newspaper for its announcement that it does not publish articles that “promote a Zionist worldview.” The McGill Daily published a statement last week about its ban in response to an anti-Semitism complaint by members of the Montreal university’s Jewish community. “[U]pon reviewing this complaint,…
— New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman, who is Jewish and gay, discovered two swastikas carved into his Manhattan apartment building and connected the vandalism with the appointment of former Breitbart News chair Stephen Bannon to a White House post. “Swastika found in my apartment building this evening in Greenwich Village. Anti-Semite named to #Trump White House…
— The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a dramatic increase in donations since the presidential election. In the day after Donald Trump’s surprising victory alone, the watchdog group saw a 50 percent rise in donations, the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia reported Wednesday. Todd Gutnick, the ADL’s vice president for communications, said the uptick in giving has…
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