Every morning, while her college roommate is still asleep, Hayley Snider gets up and puts on a vest that vibrates and inflates to clear out the thick mucus in her lungs. Later, after evening marching band practice, the 19-year-old student forgoes hanging out with friends to return to her dorm at the University of Houston…
A new bill that would make it a hate crime to attack a police officer in New York State has drawn opposition from the Anti-Defamation League, which drafted the hate crime laws now in place in many states across the country. According to the ADL, the proposed law would make it harder for prosecutors to…
As American Jews (and their media) are fawning over Olympian gymnast Aly Raisman, fewer know about her teammate Gabrielle Douglas’ complex religious background — a mixture of Christianity and Judaism. “I used to be Jewish,” she wrote in her 2012 memoir. “Well not exactly Jewish — but my family practiced some of the Jewish traditions.”…
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera took to Twitter Wednesday to slam comments by Republican candidate Donald Trump that appeared to suggest gun-owners should assassinate opponent Hillary Clinton as ‘dangerous incitement.’ Rivera, who is Jewish, tweeted that while Trump is a “longtime loyal friend,” his comments implying that “Second Amendment people” could stop Clinton by shooting…
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Former U.S. senator Joe Lieberman announced he will be voting for Hillary Clinton in November, citing his personal relationship with the Democratic presidential nominee and her efforts to promote bipartisanship in the Senate. “I’m going to vote for Hillary Clinton because [I’ve known] her forever, and her husband back to when they were at Yale…
A group of blogs and Internet forums, led by blogger Steve Sailer, have come together to embrace a successor to the pseudoscientific racist movements of the 20th century. “Human biodiversity” (HBD) is the term they have used to give their particular theories a policy-wonk zing. (Read an in-depth explanation of the human biodiversity phenomenon here.)…
Despite an attempt to show party unity at the Democratic convention last month, the fight between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton continues to rage, this time in Florida. On Tuesday, Sanders sent out a fundraising email that said beating Rep. Wasserman Schultz in the Florida primary will send “a clear message about the power…
A broad range of Jewish Republican national security experts all united behind one message Monday: Donald Trump would be “dangerous” in the Oval Office. More than a dozen Jewish former officials who served in Republican administrations joined in an open letter from 50 prominent Republican experts that characterized the Republican candidate as a national security…
Amid the nearly 40,000 words that make up the recent manifesto issued by a large coalition affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, two have raised an outcry among mainstream Jewish organizations and leaders. Those two words, in a brief section about Israel, are “apartheid” and “genocide.” The August 1 manifesto, penned by a coalition…
A rabbi who made headlines for taking young male congregants on sauna trips has found a new job as a spiritual advisor in a health center in Westchester, New York. Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt is providing spiritual and psychological counseling at Scarsdale Integrative Medicine, a medical center that combines traditional Western medicine with alternative treatment according…
