As you might or might not have heard , there is a Jewish woman running for vice president. Two weeks ago, Mindy Finn joined the conservative ticket of independent candidate Evan McMullin. Finn is a proud Jew, a fierce early critic of Donald Trump — and a staunch supporter of Israel. In a recent interview…
Bernie Sanders was probably the most popular politician in Wednesday night’s debate. So popular, in fact, that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump found themselves fighting to align themselves with the statements of the rumpled Jewish liberal from Vermont. It was Clinton who first sought to side with Sanders, whom she fiercely battled for months during…
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has arrested six crooks accused of robbing New York nursing home residents — including two who stole from patients suffering from dementia at Jewish nursing homes. One of the alleged thieves, Channel Francis, is accused of charging thousands of dollars in purchases at Macy’s, Best Buy and other…
At the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton succeeded in getting rival Donald Trump to lose his cool. She hopes to repeat the feat at tonight’s third and final debate in Las Vegas — and her campaign thinks that inviting fellow billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban might do the trick. Cant wait to give…
Donald Trump invited President Obama’s half-brother to be a guest of honor at the final presidential debate — despite reports that Malik Obama is a supporter of the anti-Israel Hamas terror movement. The Republican candidate’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment on a 2010 photo depicting Malik Obama wearing a Palestinian headscarf…
Less than a week after the Forward broke the news about the existence of an online neo-Nazi hit list, the provider hosting the website suspended the account. The page with the deceptively innocent name “Jews in Modern Society” listed names, photos and professions of almost 400 Jews from academia, social-activism, the financial world and left-wing…
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report showing the unprecedented online harassment Jews – and especially Jewish journalists – are facing in the age of Twitter and Trump. “The spike in hate we’ve seen online this election cycle is extremely troubling and unlike anything we have seen in modern politics, ADL CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said…
As the November election fast approaches, Democrats and Republicans are in the usual arms race to raise campaign cash. But in a rare moment of across the aisle solidarity, Democrats led an online fundraiser to fix a North Carolina Republican Party office damaged by an explosion last week. “Even though we deeply, deeply, disagree with…
More bad news for thrice-disgraced Jewish former congressman Anthony Weiner: the New York Daily News reports that federal investigators have interviewed a 15-year-old girl to whom Weiner sent explicit texts. The News couldn’t get the F.B.I. or federal prosecutors to comment on the report. But their paper’s source, whom the story doesn’t name, says that…
The factory and housing complex where Oskar Schindler is credited with saving more than 1,000 Jews today lies abandoned, a hulking semi-ruin in the small Czech town of Brnenec, about a two-hour drive from Prague. The Shoah and Oskar Schindler Memorial Endowment Foundation, which own the complex, want to to spend almost $5 million to…
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist,” opens the famous poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller, describing the the Nazis’ rise to power and the targeting of minority groups, one after the other. “Then they came for me — and there was no one…
