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…
(JTA) The Western Wall rabbi just denounced the Western Wall deal. Its supporters aren’t worried. And Women of the Wall activists are looking to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back them up. In January, Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz agreed to a historic compromise with non-Orthodox leaders over the future of the holy site. On…
Some of America’s leading Jewish not-for-profit groups are dropping a accounting firm following financial scandals at a string of the firm’s clients. New York-based Loeb & Troper has lost at least eight Jewish not-for-profit clients in recent years, including, in the past few months, the Jewish Federations of North America, which is the umbrella organization…
Florida has one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, but the Jewish candidate in Tuesday’s Democratic primary appears to be barely a factor in the state. Recent polls have given Hillary Clinton a nearly 2-1 lead over Bernie Sanders in Florida, including in the southern part of the state, where plenty of…
In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a military withdrawal from Syria. Saying its intervention, launched in 2015, has mostly achieved its goals, Putin said Monday the pullout of most of Russia’s forces will begin Tuesday, according to Reuters. Russia will keep its Hmeimim airbase and its longtime Tartus naval base in…
A pastor speaking at a Donald Trump rally called Monday for Bernie Sanders to “meet Jesus” and be saved. “Bernie Sanders, who doesn’t believe in God… Listen, Bernie got to get saved. He got to meet Jesus, he got to have a ‘coming to Jesus’ meeting,” televangelist Mark Burns said at the North Carolina gathering…
