The ex-wife of murdered law professor Dan Markel breaks down in a newly released 2014 video of of investigators telling her that Markel had been shot to death in his Tallahassee driveway. Between sobs, Wendi Adelson tells an investigator that her brother, Charles Adelson, had joked about hiring a hitman to kill Markel. “Danny didn’t…
Just when you thought Election 2016 couldn’t get weirder, Donald Trump’s Jewish doctor, who reassures us the nominee will be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” has a thing for Italian so intense, he delivered a speech in the language – at his son’s bar mitzvah. And at least according to one account,…
Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin is separating from her husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, after the New York Post published semi-nude selfies Weiner took while he was lying in bed with their sleeping son. The Post story marks Weiner’s third or fourth major sexting scandal since 2011, depending on how you count. Public…
Updated December 11, 2019 Their story rarely finds its way into the mainstream news. When it does, readers are surprised. A cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama is a black rabbi in Chicago? Generations of African Americans — not religious converts — who observe the Sabbath and read the Torah? A star NBA player decides…
On a recent Saturday in Brooklyn, hundreds of Hebrew Israelites assembled to hear their leader speak. Rabbi Capers C. Funnye was to be formally inaugurated as chief rabbi — and to lay out his historic vision for the movement. At Bnai Adath Kol Beth Yisrael, pews were filled to capacity, upstairs and down. Electric fans…
The term “alt-right” is a hipper-sounding version of the original notion of the “alternative right,” which Paul Gottfried, a Jewish academic, coined in 2008. Today his notion — of a new home for conservatives who saw themselves as too extreme for the mainstream movement — has become the “alt-right,” whose adherents include a range of…
The term “alt-right” is everywhere right now. Donald Trump has been tied to it. Hillary Clinton made a speech about it. On August 25, when Clinton gave her speech, the phrase “altrightmeans” trended on Twitter all day, precisely because most people didn’t know how to complete that sentence. Turns out, the “alt-right” is a loose…
The “alt-right” has taken the media by storm this summer. From the rise — and downfall — of Milo Yiannapoulos to Trump tweeting anti-Semitic graphics to the hiring of Steve Bannon, chairman of Breitbart News, to run the Trump campaign, the neo-white supremacist movement has never been more visible. The movement and its racist, anti-Semitic,…
Florida is once again the ultimate swing state prize in the battle for the White House — and a new poll of Jewish voters in the Sunshine State suggests Hillary Clinton has little to worry about come November. According to a new poll conducted by Democratic pollster Jim Gerstein and published Friday, 66% of Florida…
Meet the rabbi who’s on a mission to educate the Orthodox community about sexual abuse—and publicly out pedophiles while he’s at it. For the past 15 years, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz has been trying to break the cycle of silence associated with abuse in the Orthodox community. According to the Torah, Jews are forbidden to turn…
Gary Johnson wants Jewish bakers to make wedding cakes for Nazi clients. Well, forcing Jews to bake cakes for Nazis probably isn’t a top priority for the Libertarian Party presidential candidate, but in a debate televised in April the former governor of New Mexico was pushed to a corner, facing a scenario that put to…
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