Updated 7:45 p.m. Twelve women have accused David Keyes, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of inappropriate behavior, including sexual assault, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The article came days after New York state senate candidate Julia Salazar stated that she had been sexually assaulted by Keyes when she was a college…
A Republican congressional candidate and former blogger once wrote that former Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman supported the Iraq War because Lieberman is Jewish. Jim Hagedorn, the Republican nominee in Minnesota’s mostly-rural 1st District, had a history of making incendiary comments on his blog, “Mr. Conservative.” The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a 100-page research book…
The definition includes some criticism of Israel — “demonizing” it, applying double standards to it unlike other countries, or denying its right to exist.
SYDNEY (JTA) — The electoral office of an Australian member of Parliament whose wife is Jewish was targeted by racists who threw pig’s entrails at the front door. The early Wednesday morning attack follows an earlier attack by the far-right group Antipodean Resistance on September 1 on another office belonging to Labor lawmaker Mike Kelly,…
(JTA) — The Trump Administration ordered the close of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington D.C. “We have permitted the PLO office to conduct operations that support the objective of achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between Israelis and the Palestinians since the expiration of a previous waiver in November 2017. However, the PLO has…
(JTA) — New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon called on her primary opponent, sitting Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to apologize for a mailer paid for by the state Democratic Party headed by Cuomo which questioned her support for issues important to Jewish voters. Nixon, who is gay and attends Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue,…
What’s your favorite bagel? It’s a question that local politicians of all stripes have to answer in New York City, like they do for tacos in Los Angeles or BBQ in North Carolina. Cynthia Nixon recently made her tastes known when she walked into the Upper West Side appetizing fortress of Zabar’s and ordered —…
The childhood rabbi of Stephen Miller denounced the divisive White House aide during Rosh Hashanah services at the synagogue where he once worshipped. Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels devoted much of his High Holidays sermon to a rebuke of Miller for spearheading President Trump’s right-wing attacks on immigrants — and especially his unpopular policy of separating families…
Levi Sanders lost badly in a Democratic congressional primary in New Hampshire. The son of liberal firebrand Sen. Bernie Sanders badly trailed two frontrunners in the primary to fill the first district’s seat that was left open when incumbent Carol Shea=Porter opted not to seek reelection. Sanders, who couldn’t even lock up his famous dad’s…
Julia Salazar, the controversial candidate for a New York state senate seat in Brooklyn, is claiming she was sexually assaulted in 2013 by a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Salazar, who has been dogged by controversy over a number of issues, says she is speaking out because news reports were poised to name…
The insurgent challenging rogue Democrat Simcha Felder says he is counting on support from “secret” Orthodox voters to make the difference in a heated Brooklyn state senate primary battle. Blake Morris, who is a secular Jew, says he has met up to 100 Orthodox voters who are fed up with Felder, who is running for…
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