The New York State Senate has voted to slash $485 million in funding to senior colleges in the City University of New York system to “send a message” that not done enough to fight campus anti-Semitism. On March 14, a state budget resolution championed by Republicans passed after a sprawling 2-hour debate on the Senate…
New York regulators are proposing to bar from the Medicaid program a Bronx old-age home that was the subject of a January investigative report in the Forward. Bronxwood Home for the Aged, which sends a substantial portion of its revenue to ultra-Orthodox charities, could soon be required to pay $6.9 million in restitution to New…
White supremacist leader David Duke believes that the comparisons being made between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler could actually be great — for the Fuhrer. Politico reported that Duke said on his radio show, “They might be rehabilitating that fellow with the mustache back there in Germany.” Duke’s diatribe was inspired by a commercial he…
Is Sheldon warming up to the Donald? Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, not known usually for being shy about his political views, has avoided expressing support for any of the GOP presidential candidates. But Adelson is spreading hints in recent weeks, and they all point toward Donald Trump, the only candidate in the race who doesn’t…
Between the national election and the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Irish — a famously loquacious bunch — have much to debate over their pints of Guinness these days. But for 89-year-old Freddy Rosehill and his best friends in Cork, there is just one subject of conversation these days: what…
Donald Trump’s appearance at the upcoming AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington has at least one Jewish group planning to protest. The group of professionals and clergy, which calls itself “Come Together Against Hate,” says that Trump and his hate speech have no place at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “We…
Some of the most powerful medicine delivered to young patients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on Wednesday came in a package less than 32 inches tall and with a tail. Honor, a 10-month-old colt with , trotted into the hearts of dozens of children and teens being treated at the Jewish hospital…
President Barack Obama selected Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, choosing a centrist Jewish judge meant to win over recalcitrant Senate Republicans whose leaders wasted no time in spurning the Democratic president. Garland, 63, was picked to replace long-serving conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13. The Chicago native serves…
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama has politicized the Supreme Court nomination process by putting forward veteran appellate court judge Merrick Garland during a presidential election. “It seems clear that President Obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize…
Among the hundreds of supporters who came to what turned out to be Marco Rubio’s farewell from the presidential race at Florida International University in Miami on March 15, were three Jewish high school students, preparing to attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference in Washington the following week. Just like their older…
(JTA) — At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside Kiev. Like hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine’s war-torn east, life for this Jewish couple in 2014 went from a normal bourgeois…
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