Zeev Libskin and Murray Roter, both in their 80s, made their way through the packed South Florida Expo Center until finally getting as close as possible to the stage. Shortly after, Donald Trump took that stage, energizing the two Jewish retirees and thousands more with a 40-minute speech that featured a healthy dose of media…
During the last months, anti-Semitic attacks and trolling has risen to seemingly unprecedented levels on social media sites. The problem’s gotten so bad that the Anti-Defamation League created a task force combating online hate speech. (Their first report will be released this Wednesday.) Of course the biggest problem is those who are posting all that…
UNESCO’s controversial vote to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Western Wall has flared tempers even among the most diplomatic of sorts. Following the United Nations’ cultural agency’s decision, Mexico’s ambassador to the organization, Andrés Isaac Roemer Slomianski, walked out of the session in protest of his country’s support for the resolution….
How does one of the country’s leading white nationalists become a liberal backer of racial equality? Shabbat dinner might have something to do with it. According to a Washington Post profile, Derek Black, a onetime protege of David Duke, turned away from the hateful ideology after Jewish students reached out to him to join their…
Will Donald Trump start his own infotainment television network if he loses November’s presidential election? The Financial Times reported that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner reached out to investment banker Aryeh Bourkoff for a brief conversation about a Trump network, with both declining to comment further on the matter. Trump himself has previously denied that he…
A Jewish group that has been stumping for Donald Trump is doubling down on its support for the Republican candidate — despite the fallout that Trump is seeing from within his own party. Jews Choose Trump, which was launched in July to address what it sees as a hostile environment towards Republican candidate Donald Trump,…
Ivanka Trump took an unexplained break from the campaign trail that coincided with the release of a bombshell video in which her famous father bragged about assaulting women — and several women came forward to claim that Donald Trump groped them. But now Donald Trump’s daughter and chief ambassador to women has returned to the…
After praising the courage of jihadists, the French Jewish intellectual Eric Zemmour might face charges for “apology for terrorism.” According to “Le Monde,” the prosecutor’s office in Paris opened a preliminary investigation last Friday into remarks Zemmour made to the magazine “Causeur,” during an interview titled “The Muslims Must Choose Between France and Islam.” “What…
New York is a man’s city, or at least seems like that from the names of so many places of note — Columbus Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Bryant Park, the Ed Koch Bridge. As the writer Rebecca Solnit points out, the city itself was named for a male: the Duke of York, later known as King…
The crowd was eclectic, from stern, black-garbed ultra-Orthodox men to youths of both sexes bedecked in colorful, hippie-like clothes. They hailed from homes as far as Safed, the kabbalist center in Israel’s North, and as remote as isolated hilltop settlements in the occupied West Bank. Even a few New Age types from secular Tel Aviv…
A Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike was narrowly averted when union leaders, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and school board officials came to a tentative last-minute agreement late Monday night, just minutes before the deadline at midnight October 9. The strike, which would have kept nearly 380,000 students out of class, had been scheduled to begin at…
אין קלאַס זענען די סטודענטן אָפֿט געווען אױף פֿאַרשידענע ניװאָען אָבער זי האָט זיך אָפּגעגעבן מיט יעדן באַזונדער.
