A popular Norwegian rap duo was accused of mainstreaming anti-Semitism by using “Jew” and Ariel Sharon as insults in its latest single. Karpe Diem, which has sold hundreds of thousands of CDs in Norway since its creation in 2000, released “Attitude Problems” last week, the online edition of the Verdens Gang daily reported Wednesday. “I…
Ivanka Trump said her father, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, was fully supportive of her conversion to Judaism. “My father was very supportive,” she said at a CNN town hall meeting featuring the presidential candidate and his family broadcast Tuesday evening. “He knows me. He knows and he trusts my judgment. When I make decisions,…
A Jerusalem-based organization that wants to build a third temple on the Temple Mount claims it held a secret Jewish wedding there, which goes against the status quo at the site holy to Jews and Muslims. The ceremony consisted of the groom reciting the necessary declaration and placing a ring on the bride’s finger while…
The Jerusalem Post announced Wednesday that Yaakov Katz, an advisor to right-wing Education Minister Naftali Bennett, will take over as editor-in-chief, replacing veteran editor Steven Linde. Katz is originally from Chicago and was the military correspondent at the Jerusalem Post from 2003 to 2013, when he left to work as foreign policy advisor for Bennett….
Two Boston-area Jewish organizations criticized Jewish activists for disrupting a meeting called to discuss prejudice, including anti-Semitism and racism. By trying to make the April 7 meeting in Newton, Massachusetts, only about anti-Semitism, the Jewish activists shifted its focus to the conduct of the meeting itself, the American Jewish Committee Boston and the Jewish Community…
Ukraine’s coalition has formally agreed to nominate Volodymyr Groysman for the post of prime minister, the deputy head of President Petro Poroshenko’s BPP faction, Oleksiy Honcharenko, said on Wednesday. “The coalition has put forward Groysman as a candidate for prime minister and will make the corresponding proposal to the president,” Honcharenko said in a post…
Consumers who are happy to buy everything from hotels to washing machines, movies and cars on the recommendation of online rankings can now do one more thing: invest in funds. SharingAlpha.com, a TripAdvisor-style platform for investors designed by an Israeli start-up aims to help them make more informed fund picks at a time when low…
In possibly the least surprising endorsement of the election season, the New York Observer, which is owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, backed the mogul in the upcoming New York primary. The paper insisted in the unsigned missive that it was not backing Trump because it is owned by Jared Kushner, who is married to the…
Melbourne attorney Alex Lewenberg has been banned from practice for 15 months for rebuking a victim of child sexual abuse who cooperated with police on the basis that “Jewish people should not assist police investigating another Jewish person.” Lewenberg made the comments twice in 2011 while representing now-convicted child sex abuser David Cyprys, who is…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday won the backing of New York City transit workers, as well as his first endorsement from a Senate colleague, less than a week before New York state’s primary. An electrical workers’ union in the New York City area countered by endorsing Hillary Clinton. Sanders announced the endorsement of…
The leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is touring Israel, four years after he angered many Jews by posting an anti-Semitic cartoon on his Facebook page. Heinz-Christian Strache visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday and said he was in the country on an official visit at the invitation of the…
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