White House senior advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, who led a task force to fight COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, abandoned efforts to create a nationwide testing scheme after it was decided that it would be politically advantageous to let Democratic-controlled states suffer outbreaks, Vanity Fair reported Thursday. “The political folks believed that because…
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko is just one week out of what he has described as an emergency heart surgery to remove a tumor. But the country’s most famous proponent of hydroxychloroquine is already back online: He’s promoting the unproven drug as a treatment for COVID-19 and tweeting conspiratorially about what he sees as the political reasons…
A longtime TV meteorologist in Denver was let go after he wrote a tweet that compared federal troops in American cities to Nazis, Adweek reported. Marty Coniglio of 9News tweeted an image on Thursday of Nazi soldiers standing in front of a swastika flag along with the caption, “Federal police in cities … now where…
(JTA) — The British rapper Wiley apologized for “generalizing” about Jews in tweets directed at his manager and others in the music industry that were widely panned as anti-Semitic — and then proceeded to make additional assertions about Jews and Jewish control of the music industry. Wiley made the apology in an interview with Sky…
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will remain hospitalized through the end of the week after undergoing a minimally invasive nonsurgical procedure on Wednesday. The procedure, to revise a bile duct stent, took place Wednesday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the Supreme Court said in a statement. Stent…
(JTA) — A member of the private Jewish security patrol group Shomrim was slashed in the leg while intervening to stop a gang assault on an unidentified man in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park. The volunteer, 33, was transported to a local hospital, where he was treated and released. The victim of the attack…
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, a leader of American ultra-Orthodoxy, endorsed Donald Trump for the 2020 election in a rare statement to the Orthodox Mishpacha magazine. “I think people should vote for him,” said Kamenetsky about Trump. “He’s done a good job. It’s hakaras hatov,” he said, using a Hebrew phrase for appreciation for a good deed….
(JTA) — The face masks aren’t subtle: One is emblazoned with the famous photo of a Jewish mother and child, their hands raised, at Nazi gunpoint. Another shows an unmistakable image of a concentration camp crematorium. The product description below the mother-and-child mask reads: “Another bold image that gets the point across without being overly…
BERLIN (JTA) – Joining a growing chorus of critical voices, Holocaust survivors have launched an international online campaign criticizing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that is aimed at countering Holocaust denial on his social media platform. Starting Wednesday, a campaign sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany called “There’s No Denying It #NoDenyingIt”…
(JTA) — Ontario’s education minister ordered a video that a Jewish group said is biased against Israel be removed from an online course. Stephen Lecce tweeted that he is “very concerned that this offensive material was on a learning website” and that “I immediately ordered it to be taken down (it was that day) &…
(JTA) — The Twitter account of the British rapper Wiley has been permanently suspended following a seven-day ban for a series of Semitic tweets seen as anti-Semitic. The decision, announced Wednesday, follows a 48-hour boycott by many users, notably British and Jewish, over what they deemed as Twitter’s failure to reprimand the artist over his…
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