(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the first visit to Oman by an Israeli head of state since 1996. Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, along with Mossad head Yossi Cohen and others, visited the Gulf state earlier this week and returned Friday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. The trip to Oman, an Arab…
(JTA) — Philip Green, a British fashion mogul, is accused of sexually harassing and at times abusing in a racist manner at least five of his employees and then buying their silence, a lawmaker said. The accusations surfaced Thursday in the British House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British parliament. A member of…
(JTA) — The senate of the Student Bar Association at George Washington University has called on the organization’s president to resign after she allegedly made an anti-Semitic comment. The resolution passed Tuesday night calls on Ali Kingston to step down by Monday, according to The Hatchet, the university’s student newspaper. Kingston is alleged by members…
Rep. Steve King had an interview with members of a far-right Austrian party with Nazi ties, while on a trip funded by a Holocaust memorial group, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The Iowa Republican also criticized billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros in his interview, while lamenting that white Europeans will be replaced by immigrants….
A current State Department official helped a top fundraiser for President Trump arrange meetings with U.S. senators and officials from the African country of Angola in 2017, without either of them registering as “foreign agents” for their assistance of foreign officials, ProPublica reported. Aryeh Lightstone helped arrange meetings between U.S. senators, prominent Angolan government officials…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fulfilled her civic duty this week, electing to vote early in the midterm elections. Ginsburg was spotted handing her ID to poll volunteers on Tuesday, as seen in photos tweeted by Matt McDermott, a senior analyst at New York-based Whitman Insight Strategies. A friend spotted RBG voting early today. Be like…
(JTA) — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg of trying to “buy” the upcoming elections for Democrats. The Republican congressman from California tweeted a video of himself making the comments on Tuesday and temporarily pinned it to the top of his feed before deleting the Twitter post entirely….
Two groups backed by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg gave millions to Democratic online ads, becoming the largest digital investment ever by a Democratic nonprofit, Axios reported. Everytown for Gun Safety and Bloomberg’s Independence USA PAC donated $10 million to online ads to ensure Democrats win control of the House in the midterms. Everytown…
(JTA) — Madonna is advertising for a private chef who has “confident knowledge of kosher cooking.” The pop singer is offering a yearly salary of nearly $142,000 for the personal chef to prepare the kosher meals for her and her brood of six children and be willing to travel, the Evening Standard reported. Madonna, 60,…
(JTA) — A New York millionaire socialite pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a case stemming from a New Year’s Eve incident in which she allegedly hit a lawyer with a glass handbag and made an anti-Semitic remark. Jacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late billionaire Jack Kent Cooke, who owned the NFL’s Washington Redskins…
A major Jewish organization is calling for the firing of CNN contributor and Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill after it emerged that he had ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has been criticized for his anti-Semitism for decades. The ties first came to light after the entertainment website The Wrap reported…
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