After months of anticipation, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met Monday night in the first of three presidential debates. Stretching for 90 minutes, the spectacle lived up to the hype, and felt at times more like a boxing match than a civic event. Here’s five Jewish snap-shots from a night to remember: Return of Sid…
(JTA) — What did we learn about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Jewish vote from the debate on Monday night? Except for an extended tussle about the Iran nuclear deal, not a whole lot. Race was an issue, but Clinton did not make an issue of the support the Republican nominee gets from the…
It was a night of huffing and puffing, snorting and smarting, hectoring and interrupting for Donald Trump at the first presidential debate at Hofstra University. The media consensus — even the right-leaning Fox News — held that Hillary Clinton won. Jewish conservatives, many of them Never-Trumpers, signaled their agreement in a series of derisive tweets….
Why is boxing promoter Don King always toting around an Israeli flag? King was spotted earlier this month brandishing an Israeli flag at a Donald Trump event — and at the first presidential debate last night he also had one by his side. Don King on what Trump has to do to give Clinton the…
Getting in to see “Hamilton” is hard enough. But on Saturday night, the ticket line turned into a security check at Ben-Gurion Airport, as Benjamin Netanyahu attended the Broadway hit. Visiting New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli premier detoured to Richard Rodgers Theater to see the famed musical,…
On September 26 at 9:00 PM, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will take part in the first 2016 presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The debate, moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt, will be broadly focused on the anodyne subjects of “America’s Direction,” “Achieving Prosperity,” and “Securing America,” which will each be debated…
The role of Holocaust education in a country where almost 1 million Jews were slaughtered is a complicated thing when the country in question is in the throes of shaping a fresh national identity and national memory for itself from very raw emotional material; even more so when it’s locked at the same time in…
The troubled lawyer who opened fire in a mall in Houston on Monday, injuring at least nine people before being fatally shot by police, was wearing a Nazi uniform. Six victims were taken to hospitals and three were treated at the scene after being shot at while inside their vehicles in the wealthy neighborhood of…
Tonight, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will take part in the first official 2016 presidential debate. When does it start? September 26 at 9:00 PM EST How long will it last? Until 10:30 PM EST, with no commercials or breaks. Where can I watch it? Right here! What is the format? The debate, moderated by…
Former Israeli president Shimon Peres died today, leaving behind a storied career that spanned more than seven decades — some of which has been immortalized memorably on video. From a job hunting parody video to an inspirational TED talk, we gathered just a few of Peres’ best on-camera moments. 1) Shortly after retiring, Peres cheekily…
A 24-year-old Hasidic man was convicted in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Friday in connection with a December 2013 gang beating that left a gay black man blind in one eye. Taj Patterson was beset by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men late one winter night on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prosecutors say that he…
אין קלאַס זענען די סטודענטן אָפֿט געווען אױף פֿאַרשידענע ניװאָען אָבער זי האָט זיך אָפּגעגעבן מיט יעדן באַזונדער.
