Like the post-credits bonus scene in a Marvel superhero movie, Donald Trump’s final pre-election ad added three surprising villains to his usual rogues’ gallery (Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, assorted foreigners): Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros and Janet Yellen. All three deal with money: Blankfein as CEO of the Goldman Sachs investment back, Soros as…
Former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders joined comedian Sarah Silverman on stage to look back on the election, help his supporters find a new path forward and give his take on Donald Trump. Sanders was promoting his new book, “Our Revolution,” that came out earlier this month. After a short speech, he sat down to chat…
With a surge in hard-right political movements across Europe, and white nationalism enjoying a higher profile in the United States, American Jews are asking themselves if the world is becoming more hostile to them. They could be overlooking an ally with a unique position in Christian culture. Across the country, people with Jewish backgrounds who…
Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, a host on the widely watched TV show “Shark Tank” and a serial entrepreneur, is used to backing a winner. An early Trump fan turned vociferous Clinton surrogate, Cuban’s feeling quite the fool three weeks after the election, he’s written on his “Blog Maverick.” In…
Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, has a fondness for conspiracy theories about subjects ranging from unemployment data to vaccines. Likewise, she thinks the 2016 elections were rigged, and that at least three states need recounts. But this time, her crusade is gaining traction, with millions of dollars pouring in and with national attention…
The “alt-right” has catapulted to the spotlight in the wake of Donald Trump’s win. The decentralized movement, led largely by white nationalists like Richard Spencer, has championed Trump from the early days of his campaign, seeing in him a figure who would allow their dreams of building a “white ethno-state” go mainstream. Now that Trump…
An octogenarian Holocaust survivor made an emotional video plea urging fellow citizens to vote against Norbert Hofer, a far-right candidate in Austria’s presidential election who stands a good chance of winning power this December. “When they made the Jews clean the streets, the people of Vienna stood there, men and women, and said ‘Look at…
Last week a shocking photo of former reality TV star Tila Tequila doing a Nazi salute with two men went viral. The three were standing inside a gathering of the “alt-right,” the white nationalist movement which has rallied around president-elect Donald Trump. The salute — known to some as a Nazi salute, to other’s as…
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is known for his pro-Israel activism, his support of president-elect Donald Trump, and his books about sex in the Orthodox world. But recently he found himself making a small scene about a completely different issue – the burial of Fidel Castro. My 50th birthday party in NYC this Sunday 4 December same…
For the so-called “alt-right,” Jaime Zabludovsky Kuper may seem like a ready-made stereotype. A scion of one of Mexico’s most prominent Jewish families, Zabludovsky is a longtime member of Mexico’s elite. Holder of a doctorate in economics from Yale University, he is a former under secretary for international trade negotiations and a former senior economist…
Encased in a glass box on one of the main plazas in old Havana is a small and ordinary fishing boat called “El Granma.” Sixty years ago a young group of socialist militants led by Fidel Castro crossed the Gulf of Mexico on it, igniting a revolution that would affect the region for decades to…
