WASHINGTON — Even as leaders of the Anti-Defamation League gathered in the nation’s capital on May 16 for their annual meeting, hateful campaign rhetoric kept piling up in the presidential race. In the latest incident, David Horowitz, a columnist for the right-wing news site Breitbart.com, denounced Bill Kristol, an anti-Donald Trump Jewish Republican, as a…
Michael Cohen, Trump consigliere, meet Michael Cohen, Trump hater. The two men have the same name, and wildly differing positions on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and probably on most other things as well. One is Trump’s longtime close advisor and relentless defender; the other has called him a “misogynist demagogue” who stands no chance…
“Oh God, not the Jews again,” muttered conservative commentator Ann Coulter when asked about Jewish immigration to the United States. She was responding to a question on Wednesday by BBC’s James Naughtie on whether her anti-immigration stance would also have applied to Jewish immigrants to New York in the 20th century. Coulter went on to…
(JTA) — Even before FBI investigators descended last week on the Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, there was a growing sense in this insular community that it and its unique way of life were under attack. Two months earlier, the FBI had been in the village investigating alleged fraud of a government program, and…
Sheldon Adelson was the first, to commit to Donald Trump’s campaign, and now other Jewish donors seem to be flocking to the presumptive Republican nominee’s camp, offering their support and prying open their pocketbooks. Several Republican Jewish Coalition leaders are on board or on their way to join Trump’s finance committees, in charge of providing…
A prominent Jewish Dallas lawyer who died in a “suspicious” fire reportedly received death threats from a man who declared “jihad” against his own mom and then was sued by the slain lawyer in a contentious defamation case. “I’m going to kill you,” read the email sent to Ira Edwin Tobolowsky before his death, according…
A Togolese man, calling himself a king and descendant of an ancient Lost Tribe, has gained prominent Orthodox allies in Israel and even held a meeting with the Minister of Religious Affairs to request his people be recognized as a Lost Tribe of Israel. Francois A. Ayi, who describes himself as belonging to “one of…
WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) – When Jonathan Sarna was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 1999 at the age of 44, it changed his life. Already a highly regarded historian at Brandeis University, Sarna was in the midst of writing his seminal study of American Jewish history when he realized with alarm that he might never finish…
Quickly assuming the mantle of Donald Trump’s chief Jewish advocate, Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson has reached out to Republican Jewish leaders asking them to follow his lead and contribute to Trump’s presidential campaign. “Like many of you, I do not agree with him on every issue,” Adelson wrote board members of the Republican Jewish…
A wealthy and politically connected leader of the Williamsburg-based Satmar Hasidic sect drowned May 17 in Miami Beach, Florida. Yitzchak Rosenberg, 67, was the president of Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar, the central religious organization in Brooklyn of the followers of the Kiryas Joel, New York-based Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, and a founder of the sect’s…
The pro-Donald Trump right-wing polemicist who coined “renegade Jew,” the anti-Bill Kristol slur of the moment, is not your everyday Breitbart bloviator. In successive posts Sunday and Monday, David Horowitz attacked Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol for his last-ditch efforts against Trump, tagging him a “renegade Jew” in his headline and claiming that his opposition…
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