(JTA) — Australia’s prime minister is considering officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the Australian embassy there. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement issued on Monday night in Israel that he had thanked Scott Morrison for his remarks during a phone call. Morrison also was set to announce…
(JTA) — An Israeli teen who was caught urinating on a memorial commemorating the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp has been ordered to pay a fine. The Israeli man, 19, in March urinated on a monument located near the ruins of the crematoria in the former Birkenau camp. The museum’s guide saw and…
No one can accuse Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of having too little on their plate. Perhaps the Jewish power couple can juggle so much is partially due to their dedication to transcendental meditation. The Daily Beast recently published a feature story on the benefits of the technique, which purports to help practitioners control anxiety,…
(JTA) — The new hit Israeli television series “When Heroes Fly” will be streamed on Netflix. The first season of the Keshet network’s series, a total of 10 episodes, will be available to Netflix subscribers around the world early next year in its original Hebrew with subtitles, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “When Heroes Fly”…
(JTA) — The Virginia Republican Party in an ad accused Democratic House candidate Leslie Cockburn of hating Israel and America. “Leslie Cockburn hates veterans, hates ICE, hates Israel,” the footnoted ad posted late last week on the Virginia GOP Facebook and Twitter pages reads. “Basically, Leslie Cockburn hates America.” Cockburn is a former “60 Minutes”…
(JTA) — An elected official in Dallas sent a political mailer comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Area Jewish groups condemned Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price for the mailing, saying that using the example of Hitler for anything besides education or the Holocaust is “highly inappropriate and offensive,” the Dallas Morning News reported….
Despite his abundant wealth, President Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has avoided paying federal income taxes for several years, the New York Times reported Saturday. The Times reviewed a 40-page document that detailed his business dealings from 2009 to 2016, created for a company that was considering lending him money. It…
The First Family — they’re just like us. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were spotted at Chuck E. Cheese in Takoma Park, Maryland, this weekend celebrating their son Joseph’s fifth birthday, Politico reported. Along with children from his class, the other guests included some notable White House staff. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her…
A man was been charged on Sunday with a hate crime in connection to the beating of an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn, NBC New York reported. Police said they found Farrukh Afzal of Staten Island beating 62-year-old Lipa Schwartz in the Boro Park neighborhood. Afzal was arrested and charged with assault as a hate…
Hillary Clinton said in an interview Sunday that the affair between her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and Monica Lewinsky was not an abuse of power, as Lewinsky “was an adult,” CBS reported. On CBS’s “Sunday Morning,” the former Secretary of State reiterated that her husband was right not to resign after the scandal came…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The home of the Palestinian man who killed two Israeli co-workers at a factory in the Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank is slated to be demolished. The Israel Defense Forces notified the family of Ashraf Walid Saliman Na’alwa, 23, on Sunday night that the family home will be demolished, a…
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