Boston’s Jewish federation gave its longtime president a $1.3 million payout, new tax filings show. Barry Shrage, who has led the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston since 1987, received the payment in late 2014, on top of his annual salary of $343,000. The one-time windfall came after a consultant told the organization’s board that…
Most Jewish New Yorkers have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump, and nearly half are “very pessimistic” about the country’s future during the Trump presidency, according to a new poll released by Siena College today. The college, which questioned 800 registered voters in New York state, nearly 90 of whom were Jewish, found that New…
In recent years, the parents of Jared Kushner – the son-in-law and trusted confidant of President-elect Donald Trump – have donated tens of thousands of dollars to organizations and institutions located in the West Bank settlements, according to their tax forms. The U.S. State Department has long held that the settlements are an impediment to…
Tamar Manasseh likely won’t be ordained as a rabbi until next year, but she already has her congregation: a street corner in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, where she has worked out her own solution to the city’s gun violence problem. Every afternoon during the Chicago Public Schools summer vacation, Manasseh and what…
The former chief of staff of disgraced New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has a new job at Jared Kushner’s firm, the Daily News reported this morning. Judy Rapfogel has had close relationships with two New York power brokers who took spectacular falls in recent years. Her longtime boss, Silver, was convicted of federal…
“I used to have a standing as a cartoon schlepper, now I’m only a former cartoon schlepper.” This is how media mogul Haim Saban chose to describe himself when interviewing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday afternoon. Needless to say, the self-deprecating description has little to do with reality. The Israeli-American billionaire is one of…
After pro-Palestinian student activists set up mock West Bank checkpoints on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, Jewish groups filed a civil rights complaint with the federal government. Jewish organizations charged that the mock checkpoints, meant as a protest against the Israeli government, combined with other incidents to create a hostile…
Yarden Zalimansky is only 25, but comports himself like a staid older citizen. He’s been married for a few years, and wears a white shirt, tie and dark slacks for our meeting; he has a tablet opened to a Bible app and speaks in a deeply serious tone of voice. Until age 19, he styled…
The Forward is getting slammed on social media for posting a story about Ivanka Trump’s kugel. On the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation NYC, a poster referred to the article as a “steaming pile of you know what.” “Honestly, shame on the Forward,” one commenter wrote. “It’s offensive in principle,” another wrote. Readers argued that the…
A recipe for broccoli kugel that Ivanka Trump claimed was her own “family favorite” is actually a word-for-word copy of a recipe by a well-known Jewish cookbook author. The recipe that the future first daughter presented as her own, posted in May on her website, IvankaTrump.com, is virtually identical to a recipe in a 2011…
A candidate for president of the U.K.’s largest Jewish student organization is the target of social media harassment for his pro-Palestinian activism, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. Facebook users have called Eran Cohen, a leading candidate to run the Union of Jewish Students, a “disgusting Kapo” and a “self-hating Jew,” according to the paper. Cohen,…
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