Partway through a Trump Tower interview with two dozen reporters and ultra-Orthodox activists Thursday afternoon, the leading Republican candidate for president deferred to a real estate attorney for help answering a question about Israel. “Jason, how would you respond to that?” Trump asked, gesturing to the chief legal officer of the Trump Organization, Jason Greenblatt….
The alleged Brussels bomber nicknamed the “man in the hat” said one of the original targets in the attacks that killed 32 was the departure area for flights to Tel Aviv. Departure areas for flights to the United States and Russia also were targeted in the March 22 attack, Mohamed Abrini reportedly told a Belgian…
Steven Salaita was reportedly blocked from receiving a permanent position at the American University of Beirut, two years after his dismissal from the University of Illinois following controversy over anti-Israel comments he made on Twitter. AUB president Fadlo Khuri was said to shut down a job search for a permanent position at the university after…
A top official of a heavily Jewish New York City suburb was charged on Thursday with defrauding investors who helped finance a controversial minor league baseball stadium, in what authorities called the first criminal securities fraud prosecution involving municipal bonds. Christopher St. Lawrence, the elected supervisor of Ramapo, New York, was charged in an indictment…
Donald Trump’s campaign manager will not be prosecuted in Florida on battery charges. The decision not to press charges against Corey Lewandowski was reported Wednesday night by Politico, which cited unnamed “sources with knowledge of the situation.” The decision was expected to be announced Thursday afternoon during a news conference by the state attorney in…
Simone Zimmerman, the newly hired national Jewish outreach coordinator for the Bernie Sanders campaign, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “manipulative asshole” last year in a Facebook post. “Bibi Netanyahu is an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole,” Zimmerman, a former J Street student activist, wrote on Facebook in March 2015, according to the Washington-based…
Korean “comfort women” met with Holocaust survivors as they toured the U.S. to raise awareness of the Japanese sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II. Yi Ok-seon, 89, and Kang Il-chul, 88, visited the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County, Long Island, on April 9, where they spoke with two female…
A Polish prosecutor interrogated Jan Tomasz Gross, a Jewish historian who researched Polish complicity in the Holocaust. Prosecutors are trying to determine whether Gross insulted the Polish nation by publishing an article in German newspaper “Die Welt” in which he said that Poles “had killed more Jews than the Germans” during World War II. Gross,…
In explaining how terrorists could avoid capture in hiding, Belgium’s vice prime minister compared their situation to that of Jews who hid from Nazis. Vice Prime Minister Jan Jambon made the analogy last week during an interview with VTM, a Flemish-language television station, the news website Knack reported Wednesday. Claude Maroniower, a Belgian-Jewish alderman in…
Sir Arnold Wesker, a prominent British-Jewish playwright whose work touched on many Jewish issues, has died at 83. Wesker, who wrote more than 40 plays that were translated into 18 languages, died Tuesday evening of Parkinson’s disease, the Washington Post reported. Wesker first drew attention in 1957 for his play “Chicken Soup with Barley,” part…
Israel’s ambassador to Hungary penned a letter to a newspaper editor condemning what he said was a columnist’s anti-Semitic writings. Ambassador Ilan Mor’s April 4 letter to Peter Petan, editor-in-chief of Magyar Hirlap, were about articles by Zsolt Bayer, a co-founder of the ruling Fidesz party, that “openly advocate anti-Semitic sentiments and incite against the…
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