(JTA) — Jared Kushner is writing the “definitive” account of the Trump presidency, his publisher says. Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins, said in a release Tuesday that Kushner’s book “will be the definitive, thorough recounting of the administration — and the truth about what happened behind closed doors.” Broadside said the book, to…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Americans for Peace Now is calling for concrete conditions on defense assistance to Israel, a first for a group that calls itself “pro-Israel” and is a member of the Jewish community’s foreign policy umbrella group, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “If the U.S. wants to nurture peace and…
Israeli fighter jets struck the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday, targeting Hamas military positions in Khan Younis, a town in the coastal enclave’s far south, and Gaza City, according to the Israeli military. The airstrikes came in response to incendiary balloons launched on Tuesday from Gaza toward Israel, and were the first since May 21, when…
(JTA) — Three Jewish nonprofit organizations will receive a slice of the latest $2.74 billion in grants handed out by MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Scott and her husband Dan Jewett announced Tuesday that they were distributing new funds to 286 different organizations, bringing Scott’s total charitable giving since July…
(JTA) — A federal judge in Houston has thrown out a lawsuit by health workers objecting to a city hospital system’s coronavirus vaccine mandate on the merits — but she couldn’t help singling out one of the arguments for special derision. In her five-page opinion on June 12, District Judge Lynn Hughes writes that the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden nominated Tom Nides, a deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration, to be his ambassador to Israel. Nides, a banker, was the deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2011 to 2013 and had good relations with Israeli diplomats, although he was less involved in substantive…
(JTA) — Citing the recent spike in antisemitic attacks, the Jewish caucus in the California State Legislature has secured $50 million to help protect nonprofits and $10 million for an exhibit on antisemitism at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The total allocated for Jewish or Jewish-related causes in the 2021-22 state budget is…
(JTA) — (Jewish Journal-Massachusetts via JTA) — A suburban Boston high school football team that had come under fire earlier this year for using Holocaust and Jewish phrases to call plays – “Auschwitz,” “rabbi” and “yarmulke” among them – had been employing similar antisemitic language for at least the last decade. That was the conclusion…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Jewish leaders in Europe say the European Union is not only banning some methods of kosher and halal slaughter, but telling Jews and Muslims how to practice their religions. That’s according to many who have read a recent ruling by the EU’s highest court. It upholds bans in Belgium on producing kosher and…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial Georgia Republican congresswoman, toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and apologized for likening coronavirus protections to the Holocaust. “I have made a mistake and it’s really bothered me for a couple of weeks now, and so I definitely want to own it. The horrors of the Holocaust…
(JTA) — (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Leaders from some of Silicon Valley’s most recognized tech companies, including Google, Twitter and YouTube, are among about 200 technology and business leaders who have signed on to a letter calling out antisemitism. The signatories include former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, media mogul…
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