The dean of Yale Law School penned a letter to the school Thursday, in which she expressed concern over reports that professors advised female students preparing for a clerkship interview with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on how to dress and act to fit a “certain look,” Talking Points Memo reported. Heather Gerken encouraged…
A Republican member of Congress endorsed this week an alt-right activist known for spreading anti-Semitism, Mother Jones reported Thursday. California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who was recently condemned for attending a fundraiser with a Holocaust denier, posted a photo on Instagram of him shaking hands with Gracey Larrea-Van Der Mark, a candidate for a school board…
Top officials weren’t invited to the meeting where White House adviser Stephen Miller advocated for cutting the number of refugees allowed in the U.S. to the lowest level in 40 years, NBC News reported. The meeting last Friday didn’t include U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Mark…
(JTA) — Spanish recognition of Palestinian statehood may well prompt Israel to do the same for Catalonia, a prominent Madrid-based lobby group for the Jewish state said. The head of the ACOM group, Angel Mas, issued the warning last week in an op-ed for the ABC daily. It came amid reports — which were confirmed…
(JTA) — Kosovo would set up an embassy in Israel if the Jewish state recognizes it as an independent state, the president of the Balkan breakaway republic said. Hashim Thaci said this during an interview Thursday, the KosovaPress agency reported. “If Kosovo were recognized by Israel, I would place the Kosovo embassy in Jerusalem,” Thaci…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of six world leaders who will have bilateral meetings with President Donald Trump next week at the United Nations General Assembly. Trump will meet between Sept. 24 -26 with Netanyahu, a White House schedule released Thursday said, as well as with the leaders of five…
Yale Law School is investigating a prominent professor who allegedly told female students preparing for a clerkship interview with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh that he prefers women with a “certain look,” the Guardian reported Thursday. An email that was sent to law school alumni this summer and acquired by the legal blog Above…
Donald Trump’s handpicked warm-up speaker for his Las Vegas rally is a loud-and-proud conspiracy theorist who called the mass shooting at a country music festival a “Muslim terror plot” and suggested that George Soros paid Charlottesville demonstrators to make the far right look bad. Wayne Allyn Root, will address a campaign-style rally with Trump in…
(JTA) — A New Jersey township has agreed to repeal an ordinance prohibiting the construction of an eruv, that state officials said discriminated against Orthodox Jews. The announcement this week resolved a lawsuit the state attorney general’s office filed against Mahwah last October. The ordinance said the affixing of PVC pipes on utility poles to demarcate…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, has spoken over the past month for hours with investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller, ABC News reported Thursday. The interviews covered Trump’s financial and business dealings with Russia, as well as possible collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign, the network reported. ABC added that the meetings,…
A South Carolina congressman made light of the sexual assault accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with a joke about Ruth Bader Ginsburg being groped, The Post and Courier reported Thursday. As he opened his election debate at the Kiwanis Club of Rock Hill, Republican Rep. Ralph Norman quipped that he almost had to…
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