Jared Kushner uses the encrypted messaging service WhatsApp to conduct official White House business, according who Representative Elijah Cummings, who on Thursday made public testimony made late last year before the House Oversight Committee by Kushner’s private attorney. The attorney, Abbe Lowell, acknowledged to the committee that Kushner “continues to use” WhatsApp for official business,…
The young woman who accused her co-worker of making anti-Semitic comments at the New York health food store where they worked put out a statement detailing the incident — in which the produce cooler was compared to a gas chamber — and revealing the management’s lack of response. Sarah Shabanowitz, an 18-year-old college student, put out…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five Democratic presidential candidates said they would reenter the Iran nuclear deal that President Donald Trump abandoned last year. Al-Monitor, a Middle East news site, solicited the Democratic candidates about whether they would rejoin the deal. The five who said they would are Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris,…
Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. should officially recognize Israeli control of the occupied Golan Heights, a region once part of Syria that has Israel has claimed as its own since 1981. After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical…
Most American Christians thought it was inappropriate for President Trump to sign the cover of a bible, as he did in early March, according to a Morning Consult poll, reports Religion News Service. According to the poll, 65% of Christians in the U.S., and 64% of Americans, think it was inappropriate to sign the bibles….
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erez Eli (@rizo1572) on Mar 21, 2019 at 6:34am PDT Seen at a raucous Purim party Wednesday evening in Brooklyn: witches, wizards, leprechauns, Lucha Libre fighters, cowboys, aliens, various elements of law enforcement, The Marvelous Mrs. Maizel, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sexy Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sexy hamantaschen,…
(JTA) This is a developing story. (JTA) — Michael Steinhardt, the megadonor who helped found Birthright Israel and supports a wide range of Jewish institutions, has been accused of a pattern of propositioning and making sexually inappropriate remarks to women who have approached him as part of their work in Jewish philanthropy or the arts….
Christopher Langan may have the highest IQ in the world. So why is he gaining a following among the far right? A recent article from the Baffler examined the phenomenon, likening Langan to “Alex Jones with a thesaurus.” Langan, now in his sixties, has been a curiosity for nearly 25 years, a man who has…
A liberal organization is asking Democratic presidential candidates not to attend this year’s AIPAC policy conference, Politico reported. MoveOn, a progressive public policy advocacy group and political action committee, said that AIPAC is too close to the Israeli government, run by Benjamin Netanyahu, and has a history of Islamophobia. “It’s no secret that that AIPAC…
The digital Talmud study app Sefaria has released a special update for Purim: The app now has a built-in grogger. Purim, the raucous holiday of spiels, drinking and dress-up, is beloved also for its participatory reading of the Scroll of Esther, the holiday’s principal text. Traditionally listeners are invited to boo the name of the…
Ari Fleischer, the prominent Jewish Republican who helped build the case for America’s disastrous invasion of Iraq as President George W. Bush’s press secretary in 2002 and 2003, yesterday tweeted a lengthy defense of the Bush Administration’s conduct in the buildup to the war. He’s getting flamed in response. In a long thread, Fleischer, now…
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