Days after she deleted tweets widely criticized for anti-Semitism, Rep. Ilhan Omar made comments that some saw as accusing Jews of possessing dual loyalties. According to Jewish Insider, Omar said during a panel discussion at a Washington, D.C. bookstore that because she and fellow first-term Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who was also there, are Muslim,…
This is a developing story. Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced on Thursday his decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases, pending a hearing. In Case 4000, Netanyahu is accused of providing regulatory concessions to Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Bezeq telecommunications, in…
President Trump defended North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Thursday over the treatment of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was arrested in North Korea in 2015 and later returned to his family in a coma, from which he later died. Speaking at a press conference after the end of a nuclear summit in…
The charging of of billionaire Robert Kraft in a prostitution sting last week won’t stand in the way of him receiving a $1 million prize meant to honor a “role model for Jews worldwide,” according to the leader of the foundation that gives the award. Stan Polovets, chairman of the Genesis Prize Foundation, told the…
(JTA) — A Republican Party organization in northwestern Minnesota has come under fire for a Facebook post comparing Sen. Bernie Sanders to Adolf Hitler. The Clay County Republican Party later apologized and deleted the post, which it said was shared by a volunteer. The post included side-by-side photos of Sanders and Hitler and compared several…
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen twice cited his father’s experience as a Holocaust survivor in the opening hours of his contentious testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Late in the morning, Republican congressman Mark Meadows said that Lynne Patton, a former Trump Organization event planner and current official with the U.S. Department of…
A Republican congressman accused former President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen of adultery on Tuesday, on the eve of Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee, in a Twitter message that seemed an attempt to frighten the onetime Trump consigliere. “Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good…
Over the next three days, Michael Cohen will be providing testimony before congressional committees about his history with President Trump. His testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday will be closed to the public, but his appearance on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee will be open…
Supreme Court experts say that Justice Elena Kagan is the vote to watch in an upcoming case over whether a memorial cross on government-owned land violates constitutional guidelines on the separation between church and state. Kagan, who is Jewish, has written forcefully in favor of church-state separation. But on the issue of religious memorials on…
(JTA) — Members of a left-wing group protested a speech by a former Israeli soldier at the Chabad Jewish Center at the University of Texas in Austin. About a dozen protesters from the Austin chapter of IfNotNow sang protest songs and carried signs reading “Occupation is not moral” and “Moral combat? Moral disaster” in front…
A conspiracy theory that presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris aided actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged attempts to fake a hate crime have spread across Twitter and Facebook, Storyful reported, based on an analysis of traffic on the sites. Smollett was arrested last week on suspicion of filing a false police report that he had been assaulted…
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