(JTA) — Leading Israeli rabbis prayed at the Western Wall for President Donald Trump’s recovery from the coronavirus. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western Wall, recited a traditional Jewish prayer for healing on Trump’s behalf on Monday morning, days after the American president announced he had contracted the virus. Israel’s two chief rabbis…
Donald Trump wondered on his way to Walter Reed Medical Center Friday whether he was “going out” like a Syrian-Jewish businessman friend who died of COVID-19 in April. The question highlights the likely severity of Trump’s case of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, even as he has sought to project strength to his…
(JTA) — Aaron Coleman, the 20-year-old Jewish student and Democratic nominee for a state House seat in Kansas, was arrested in 2015 for threatening to shoot a female student at a local high school. The revelations about the arrest further detail Coleman’s history of harassing woman. This summer, Coleman admitted to calling a girl fat…
(JTA) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday that the city will re-impose a COVID lockdown, which will include the closing of schools and nonessential businesses, in several neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations. The lockdown will last two to four weeks in parts of Far Rockaway, Queens and Kew Gardens in…
Some white supremacists are saying Trump’s willingness to cater to Jews and be close to them is the reason he tested positive for COVID-19 diagnosis, according to extremist social media posts and the experts who track such sentiment on the internet. JJ MacNab, a fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, tweeted summaries of…
President Donald Trump condemned white supremacy during a televised phone interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, then quickly pivoted to equating white supremacists with left-wing activists. “I condemn the KKK, I condemn all White Supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys,” the president said, though he still maintained that he knows little about the group…
Donald Trump went maskless at a fundraiser at his New Jersey golf club in Bedminster Wednesday evening, a day before he tested positive for coronavirus, according to a Jewish Republican donor who attended the event. Dr. Richard Roberts, a retired pharmaceutical executive, told the Asbury Park Press that Trump was separated from the attendees of…
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders in the haredi Orthodox Jewish community in Israel and a major authority for communities in the United States, tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Yeshiva World News. The 93-year-old rabbi was tested after multiple members of his family tested positive, as did his personal driver….
An image circulating in Orthodox social media groups is calling on Orthodox Jews to pray for a speedy recovery for President Donald Trump who announced that he and his wife Melania tested positive for COVID-19 in the early hours of Friday morning. “Oh pray for the wholeness of the nation!” says the image in Hebrew,…
Donald Trump says he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus. Should we be sympathetic? That’s the question that some Jews are debating on Twitter, still only hours out from news breaking overnight about the positive test result, which has thrown a wrench of historic proportions into the final month of the…
Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the Seagram’s liquor fortune, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for her involvement in NXIVM, a self-described self-improvement group widely considered a cult. Bronfman pled guilty in 2019 to two counts: fraudulent use of identification and conspiring to conceal and harbor an undocumented immigrant for financial…
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