(JTA) — White supremacists dramatically stepped up their propaganda efforts targeting neighborhoods and campuses in 2018, far exceeding any previous annual distribution count for the United States. White supremacists’ propaganda efforts increased 182 percent, with 1,187 distributions across the U.S. in 2018, up from 421 total incidents reported in 2017, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday….
Editor’s note: The New York attorney general has launched a tax-related criminal investigation into Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of former President Donald J. Trump’s company. With that in mind, we are re-sharing this 2019 article about Weisselberg. During his congressional testimony last week, President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen revealed the names of…
Last week, while testifying before the House Oversight Committee about his work for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen was photographed sporting a red thread bracelet on his left hand. The thin thread has deep roots in Jewish mysticism — it is supposed to be a talisman that wards off evil. European rabbis once considered the red…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A deputy mayor of Jerusalem refused to attend a real estate conference because it was held in a facility owned by the Conservative movement. Eliezer Rauchberger, who represents the haredi Orthodox Degel Hatorah party and holds the building and planning portfolio, had committed to being a keynote speaker Monday at the national…
Beresheet, the Israeli lunar lander currently on its way to the moon, sent a selfie back to Earth from more than 23,000 miles away. A plaque on the outside of the module, which is about the size of a washing machine, reads “small country, big dreams” and “Am Yisrael Chai” – the people of Israel…
A pro-Trump conspiracy theorist who had amplified the conspiracy theories around the murder of Seth Rich, the Jewish Democratic National Committee staffer, apologized to Rich’s family, RollingStone.com reported. On Monday, the website InfoWars.com, which is run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, retracted a column by one of its “correspondents,” Jeremy Corsi, and issued a…
Democratic leaders in the House are planning to introduce a resolution on Wednesday criticizing recent statements by Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, Politico reported Monday. So why are House Democrats going after one of their own? Since early February, Omar has been at the center of a series of overlapping controversies, each hinging…
A southern California school district sent a letter to parents apologizing after images spread on social media showed students partying while giving Nazi salutes and playing drinking games with cups arranged in the shape of a swastika. “We were recently made aware of social media postings involving some students who created inappropriate anti-semitic symbols, and…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday urged city residents – particularly Orthodox Jews – to get their children vaccinated as one of the largest measles outbreaks in city history continues to grow, almost solely in Jewish areas of Brooklyn. “As a dad, I urge all parents — particularly in our Orthodox Jewish community…
Billionaire casino magnate and pro-Israel mega-donor Sheldon Adelson is being treated for cancer, Bloomberg reported. Adelson, 85, has been out of his office since late December due to side-effects from his treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A lawyer representing one of Adelson’s casinos referred to his health as “dire” in court Monday. A company spokesman told…
President Trump overruled intelligence officials last year who raised concerns about Jared Kushner’s security clearance, ordering former chief of staff John Kelly to give top secret clearance to Kushner, the New York Times revealed in an explosive report on February 28. The Times report was based on contemporaneous memos written by Kelly and former White…
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