WASHINGTON — Norman Podhoretz, a founder of the neoconservative movement, said he backs Donald Trump for president. With his endorsement in an interview this week in the Times of Israel, the former editor of Commentary magazine parts ways with the many neoconservatives who say they cannot support the Republican nominee because of his foreign policy…
— A prominent neo-Nazi activist from Berlin was spotted holding up a banner at a demonstration organized by the city’s chapter of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement against Israel. Marc Kluge, who in 2010 was identified by the anti-Israel website Indymedia as a central figure for neo-Nazis in Berlin and a former candidate for…
Israel has begun construction of an underground barrier along the frontier with the Gaza Strip that is meant to block cross-border tunnels built by Palestinian militants, Israeli defense and political sources said on Thursday. Since being blindsided during a 2014 war by tunnel raiders from the Hamas Islamist group that controls Gaza, Israel has stepped…
Donald Trump said on national TV Thursday night that he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, but luckily, everyone’s favorite shock jock Howard Stern’s 14-year-old- interview with the Donald was readily available to debunk the claim. Speaking on NBC’s Commander in Chief Forum held in New York, Trump insisted that he had never supported…
(JTA) — After the shooting death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin in August, Donald Trump , “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” The previous month, he posted to Twitter a six-pointed star containing the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” stamped on an image of Hillary Clinton and hundred-dollar bills. A few weeks…
A plan for a nine-story condo and community center adjacent to Shearith Israel, the venerable Sephardic congregation on Manhattan’s upper West Side, was shot down by a local community board. The plan, which is opposed by preservationists in the tony neighborhood, must now go to a city board for approval or rejection, reported DNAInfo.com. A…
JERUSALEM — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas served as a KGB agent during the 1980s, an Israeli news station reported. Israel’s Channel 1 public television station reported Wednesday night that Abbas worked with the Soviet intelligence agency using the code name “Mole” while living in Damascus, the capital of Syria. Abbas was recruited to the…
— Jewish leaders and others are rallying to the aid of a German judge facing punishment for helping Holocaust survivors apply for ghetto pensions. In an open letter that has been picked up by German Jewish and mainstream media, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has urged the German minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia to intercede on…
— BBYO launched a five-year, $90 million campaign — aided by two unprecedented gifts — in an effort to double the Jewish youth organization’s annual growth rate. The “This Moment in Time” campaign will also enable BBYO, the world’s largest pluralistic Jewish youth group, to expand its workforce, increase summer program offerings and grow its endowment. As part…
— Benjamin Netanyahu cleared 20 minutes from the schedule of his visit to the Netherlands to thank the country’s leading Christian Zionist activist and chief rabbi for their support for the Jewish state and its people. The Israeli Prime Minister on Wednesday called Roger van Oordt, director of the Christians for Israel organization. He also…
— Olympic medalist Aly Raisman said she is planning to compete in the Summer Games in Tokyo in four years. Raisman told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday that she plans to take a break before going back into training for the 2020 Summer Olympics. “That’s the goal,” Raisman said. “I’m going to take…
