A former fighter pilot, 62-year-old millionaire Eytan Stibbe is set to join a 2021 scientific mission to the International Space Station. An exciting day at Beit HaNasi. Godspeed to you, #EytanStibbe and thanks to @RamonFoundation for supporting the initiative. Go in #peace, return in peace. We’re waiting for you here at home ??#Space pic.twitter.com/xzPTklC4Km —…
Madison Cawthorn, the newly elected congressman from North Carolina who was criticized for selfies he took at Hitler’s vacation retreat in Germany, is a zealous Christian. And the 25-year-old firebrand conservative and part-time preacher is trying to convert Jews and Muslims. In an interview with Jewish Insider published Monday, Cawthorn said he has read through…
Georgia Sen. David Perdue, the Republican incumbent in a runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff declined another debate before the Jan. 5 special election that will decide the winner — and will be represented at the event by an empty podium. David “empty podium” Perdue https://t.co/bARdzKVQvm — Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) November 16, 2020 Ossoff called Perdue…
(JTA) — Elissa Slotkin, the rare Democrat who won reelection in a district where Donald Trump got a majority, is urging her fellow Democrats: don’t make a shanda before the GOP. “There are people both inside and outside the party who are looking to split it apart,” Slotkin told Politico in a story posted Friday,…
At least six Igbo synagogues have been razed by soldiers in Nigeria’s River State, a part of the country’s Biafra region, according to 9Africa news. The Biafra region has been an area of unrest in Nigeria since the 1960s, when it declared independence shortly after the British left their former colony, kicking off the Nigerian…
The Union for Reform Judaism has announced that Yolanda Savage-Narva will fill the newly created role of director for racial equity, diversity and inclusion. The announcement comes after a summer of protests over the police killings of people of color in the United States. The URJ made a statement supporting the protests and also advised…
Miriam Adelson. Mort Klein. Ice Cube? The first funds the Zionist Organization of America. The second leads it. And the third is a rapper known for longstanding antisemitism who this past summer formed a relationship with Klein, who reached out to him to discuss problematic tweets. All three are speaking at the ZOA’s annual gala…
Christiane Amanpour, the long-time foreign correspondent and host of Amanpour on CNN International, compared the Trump administration’s policies to Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that announced Hitler’s policy of violence against Jews, on her show earlier this week. “This week 82 years ago Kristallnacht happened, it was the Nazi’s warning shot across the bow of our…
(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….
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