Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
(JTA) — Bernie Madoff has asked President Trump to commute his sentence. Madoff, 81, filled a request with the Justice Department between one and three months ago, The Hill reported. The Justice Department’s website lists the request as “pending,” and says it is updated to July 1. The request is for clemency, not a pardon….
For American Jews, the recent resurgence of American nativism recalls the worst moments of the last century. American nativism brought us the Immigration Act of 1924, a racist law that closed America’s borders to Jews and other “undesirables,” and that ultimately barred our forebears from escaping the Nazis and finding refuge in America. Jews then…
It’s no secret that President Donald Trump once criticized comedian Jon Stewart using language that seemed to invoke Stewart’s Judaism. He did it on Twitter, in 2013. That tweet resurfaced this week, when shared derisively by the account for “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” then later by celebrities including the singer Pink. Let’s revisit…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump continued his attacks on four freshman minority Democratic congresswomen that he has assailed with racist tweets, and involved Israel in the debate. In Sunday’s tweet he called on “the four Congresswomen,” referring to Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and Ayanna Pressley of…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America said it “condemns the most recent outburst of racist rhetoric in the highest levels of government,” an apparent reference to President Trump’s call on four Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to unspecified countries. The statement Thursday also alluded to statements by two of the congresswoman Trump…
On June 20, World Refugee Day, 500 immigrants, refugees, and employees of immigrant aid organizations gathered to watch the acclaimed off-Broadway Yiddish-language revival of “Fiddler on the Roof,” super-titled in Russian and English. Three days earlier, the President had promised that the US would remove “millions of illegal aliens”; two days earlier, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
Producers at NBC News uncovered a 1992 clip showing President Trump and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein talking about women at a party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The footage was captured for a profile of Trump’s then-bachelor life on Faith Daniels’ NBC talk show. It features a party Trump threw with NFL cheerleaders at Mar-a-Lago…
Election posters promoting Israel’s conservative Likud Party were spotted in Tel Aviv with an unusual English-language slogan: “Make Israel Great Again.” The posters echoed President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Likud party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of Trump’s closest global allies. #MakeIsraelGreatAgain Likud election posters in Tel Aviv (photo courtesy of…
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