Chicago mayor and former Democratic White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel made his way to Trump Tower in New York Wednesday for a meeting with president-elect Donald Trump. The meeting, according to a tweet was centered on the treatment of undocumented immigrants in a Trump presidency and Emanuel, a firebrand Jewish Democrat, presented Trump…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary is on the record decrying the burdens that Israel places on the United States and warning that the Jewish state could be headed toward apartheid. And with one notable exception, the right-wing pro-Israel community is enthusiastically on board. In 2013, Gen. James Mattis, then recently retired as…
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch anti-discrimination group complained to police over a political party whose Muslim founders said Adolf Hitler was Jewish and that homosexuality was a contagious illness. The Bureau Against Discrimination on Wednesday filed the hate speech complaint over the Free Democracy Party, which was established last week ahead of the general parliamentary election scheduled for March,…
(JTA) — The U.S. State Department said it was “profoundly concerned” about a controversial bill that would help legalize West Bank outposts built on Palestinian land. When asked about the measure, known as the Regulation Bill, State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Tuesday during a press briefing also called enactment of such a law “profoundly damaging…
WASHINGTON — Maryland’s lieutenant governor is raising hackles for saying he was glad haters are coming out into the open, referring to a question he fielded about a rise in anti-Jewish attacks. Boyd Rutherford, a Republican, speaking last week at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, had been asked by a local rabbi…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s support for a bill that would legalize Israeli settlement homes on private Palestinian land in the West Bank is seen in Israel as another feint in a power struggle within his ruling right-wing coalition. But critics in Israel and abroad who are alarmed by the legislation fear Netanyahu’s machinations aimed at…
Germany urged Israel in unusually strong language on Wednesday to scrap legislation that would legalize Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, saying this would break international law. Germany tends to be more reserved than other European nations in its criticism of Israel due to the legacy of the…
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to increase spending on infrastructure while cutting taxes would endanger public finances, Economics Nobel laureate Oliver Hart said on Wednesday. With much infrastructure in the United States in bad shape, increased spending could be good even if the details in Trump’s plans were “not so impressive,” he said. “But then also…
NEW YORK — A new advertisement in New York City for the second season of the Amazon TV series “The Man in the High Castle” shows the Statue of Liberty giving a Nazi salute. An ad campaign last year for the Amazon Studios show’s first season offended many Jews and non-Jews, and the new Times…
— After a highly publicized search, a Jewish man with a deadly cancer has found a bone marrow donor. On Tuesday, Adam Krief, a 31-year-old father of three living in Los Angeles, announced on Facebook that a donor had been found and that he was on his way to receive the transplant. “This is what cloud 9…
WASHINGTON — Four liberal Jewish groups have joined a drive calling on President-elect Donald Trump to rescind the choice of Mike Flynn as his national security adviser, citing the general’s hostility to Islam and his retweeting an anti-Semitic tweet. “He has written that ‘fear of Muslims is rational’ and said that ‘Islam is a political ideology’…
