WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders’s campaign says he is proud not to include Haim Saban as a backer of his presidential bid. The Sanders campaign put the pro-Israel entertainment mogul and major Democratic Party funder first on a list of 13 “anti-endorsements” — that is, public figures whose support Sanders either doesn’t want or isn’t…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s planned congressional delegation to Israel and the West Bank is in jeopardy after the group organizing the tour dropped out, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. A not-for-profit group called the Humpty Dumpty Institute, which describes itself on its website as being “dedicated to tackling difficult global and domestic issues,” had…
(JTA) — Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 bankrolled a large investment in high tech for Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who’s again running for office, Haaretz reported. The report Friday follows several revelations on financial ties between Epstein, a billionaire who was convicted in 2008 in the United States of soliciting a teenage…
“Power couple” is the proper descriptor. Meagan Rapinoe: The captain of Reign FC, the world champion women’s soccer team. Sue Bird: Point guard for the Seattle Storm, a three-time world champion and a two-time WNBA champion. She’s got four Olympic gold medals — and her father is a Russian Jew. She was raised with both…
(JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen visited the Poway Chabad synagogue where a far-right shooter killed one congregant and wounded three others in April. “We had to come,” Pence told Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was one of those injured in the attack. Before putting on a kippah and entering the synagogue…
(JTA) — Alexander Acosta quit as Secretary of Labor amid allegations that he helped arrange a lenient plea deal for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008. President Donald Trump announced the resignation Friday morning with Acosta at his side. Trump said the secretary called him Friday morning to say the decision to resign was his….
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., approved a dozen new subpoenas, including one for President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in its bid to examine Russian interference into the 2016 election and other scandals. Kushner, a top aide to Trump, is among 12 subpoenas approved…
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has come under fire in recent years for allegedly failing to confront anti-Semitism and revisionism in Central and Eastern Europe, met Wednesday with the head of a European political party whose membership includes ultranationalists and neo-Nazis. Oleh Lyashko of the Ukrainian Radical Party came to Jerusalem as part…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has amended the memorial prayer for the dead recited on Yom Hashoah to include Jews in Arab countries. The Yizkor prayer had asked God to remember “all the souls of all the communities of Beit Israel in the European Diaspora” who died in the Holocaust. In the…
Ben Shapiro said he doesn’t care for soccer, especially women’s soccer, but the conservative commentator proceeded to tear down the United States women’s soccer team, which recently won the World Cup final. On the “Ben Shapiro Show” on Wednesday, Shapiro argued against the team’s fight for equal pay. Despite having four World Cup titles, and…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender now embroiled in a sex-trafficking case, has become a player in Israel’s election campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised questions about former prime minister Ehud Barak’s relationship with Epstein and money Barak received from a foundation helmed by Epstein. Barak, who left politics…
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