(JTA) — Mike Pompeo is planning to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement, the first time a secretary of state will have made such a visit. For the visit during the Trump administration’s lame-duck period, he has chosen a settlement that is home to a winery that created a special label in his honor. The…
(JTA) — The names of the books are nearly identical — but the contents differ greatly. “American Crisis: Lessons in Leadership From The COVID-19 Pandemic” contains 320 pages of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s reflections on leading New York through the worst of the coronavirus in the spring. “Lessons in ‘Leadership,’” by former New York…
The Million Maga March. The March for Trump. Stop the Steal DC. Supporters of President Donald Trump of various stripes, including Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are planning to hold a march on Saturday in Washington, D.C., reported Politico. The plan evokes white nationalism’s most recent marquee moment, when they successfully gathered in Charlottesville, Va….
The British royal described former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks as “a trusted guide, an inspired teacher and a friend” in a eulogy he wrote for the United Kingdom’s Jewish News. “Over many years, I had come to value Rabbi Sacks’s counsel immensely,” wrote Prince Charles. “With his seemingly inexhaustible store of learning, his never-failing wisdom…
Six Americans, one French and one Czech citizen died in a helicopter crash while flying over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Thursday in the area of Sharm el-Sheikh. The group were part of the Multinational Force and Observers, which says that they have no reason to believe the crash was anything other than an accident, the Times…
(JTA) — One of the leaders of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate, is trying to rebrand the organization as explicitly white supremacist and anti-Semitic. Kyle Chapman, the founder of a “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys known for…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in and around the White House. The couple’s children had attended the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital…
(JTA) — Al Gross, the bear-killing Jewish doctor whose Senate bid drew a groundswell of support from across the United States, will not represent Alaska in Congress. Multiple news organizations called the race for the incumbent Republican, Dan Sullivan, on Wednesday morning. That was more than a week after polls closed and a day after…
An initiative by the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition is calling on Brooklyn residents to support local small businesses in largely Jewish neighborhoods that were,until recently, designated “red zones,” under New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 policies. “After struggling through a difficult red zone shut down, shopping local has never been more important to us,” said…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Yemen’s Houthi militia to release a Yemeni Jew they’ve held prisoner for four years, in a statement released Tuesday Houthi rebels in Yemen continue to persecute religious minorities. Levi Salem Musa Marhabi, a member of Yemen’s Jewish community, has endured four years of wrongful detention. We call for his immediate release. — Secretary Pompeo…
“Had he only reduced funding to the Palestinians and not cut off funding to UNRWA, it would have sufficed us,” reads a rewrite of the traditional passover song, Dayenu, that has been going around Hasidic WhatsApp groups. A version of Dayenu rewritten to be about Trump is going around Hasidic WhatsApp. It names the commutation…
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