Ivanka Trump posted a video to Instagram of Theodore Kushner, her son with Jared Kushner, crawling in the White House on Thursday. “There were so many incredible milestones this past weekend — including one for baby Theodore who crawled for the very first time in the White House!” Ivanka said in the caption to the…
If one were to pick a hip-hop star to plug challah baking for a Jewish charity event, an obvious first choice would be Drake — the nice Canadian Jewish boy who went to day school and rapped about his bar mitzvah on “Saturday Night Live.” But don’t underestimate how many celebrities love the taste of…
Progressive activists want Chuck Schumer to get serious about standing up to President Trump — and they want your help. They’ve set up a toungue-in-cheek Amazon.com wedding registry to encourage members of the Democratic Party grassroots to buy gifts that might stiffen the Senate Majority Leader’s resolve. “He’s the Democratic Senate leader, but he keeps…
Michael Applebaum, Montreal’s first Jewish mayor, will learn today whether he will serve five years in prison on fraud charges. The former mayor faces 14 charges of fraud against the government for extortion committed in 2007 and 2012. Applebaum was serving as borough mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. During the two-week trial in November, Hugo Tremblay, Applebaum’s…
(JTA) — The former head of an organization in the Miami area that helps young victims of sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community was arrested for embezzlement. David Shapiro, the ex-CEO of Jewish Community Watch, was arrested Wednesday by officers from the North Miami Beach Police Department, WSVN Channel 7 News in Miami reported….
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rudy Giuliani delivered a message from President Donald Trump to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The former New York mayor, a top informal adviser to Trump, “delivered a personal message ahead of the expected meeting between the leaders next month in Washington,” said the alert sent Thursday by the Prime Minister’s Office…
Ben Shapiro is continuing his verbal assault on Lena Dunham, with the right-wing pundit referring to the artist as a “human potato” and ridiculing her father’s parenting skills. “She actually thinks that she’s some sort of poetic genius,” he said on his Wednesday podcast, reading aloud a poem that the “Girls” creator penned after the…
Jill Soloway, the Jewish creator of the highly acclaimed Amazon show “Transparent,” had choice words about rape in film on January 22 at Geena Davis’s Bentonville Film Festival in Utah. As Vulture reported, Soloway sat on a panel to discuss gender equity last week at the festival. Soloway made a plea to male filmmakers to…
Richard Spencer and Max Blumenthal are feuding on Twitter, after the anti-Zionist writer criticized a radio host for inviting the white supremacist luminary onto his program. The exchange started with Blumenthal slamming television and radio personality David Pakman for giving a platform to Spencer. He went on to complain that while Pakman would not host…
Is it OK to knock out a Nazi? It’s a debate that’s been revived with unusual vigor since an unidentified assailant socked the white nationalist leader Richard Spencer right in the face last week, on camera. Now, a Hillel rabbi has entered the fray with a source sheet of biblical texts on the matter. The…
The White House is priceless, but $16 million ain’t too shabby. That’s the record-setting price of a Brooklyn brownstone owned by the Kushner Companies, whose scion Jared Kushner is father-in-law Donald Trump’s right-hand man on Middle East peace and other issues. A townhouse at 27 Monroe Place is currently under contract for $16 million, a…
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