Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly will go to Pittsburgh on Tuesday afternoon with President Trump, CNN reported. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump will travel with the president to Pittsburgh tomorrow, per person familiar. — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 30, 2018 White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a press briefing Monday that…
In the wake of the massacre that led 11 dead in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Trump is making his way there despite 26,000 Jews who signed a petition that he stay away. He’s not the only unwelcome politician to use the tragedy for a photo-op. The State of Israel sent Education and Diaspora Minister Naftali…
Republican and Democratic congressional leaders declined invitations to join President Trump on his controversial visit to Pittsburgh on Tuesday in the wake of the synagogue massacre, CNN reported. Citing congressional sources, CNN said that Republicans Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, and Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, all turned down offers from the White House…
A journalist apologized Monday for commenting on CNN that President Trump has radicalized more people than the Islamic State. “This president, one of the things that he really launched his presidential run on is talking about Islamic radicalization. And this president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did,” Julia Ioffe, a correspondent…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Lena Epstein, a Jewish Republican nominee for Congress in Michigan, defended inviting a Messianic Jew to an event that starred Vice President Mike Pence, to say a prayer marking the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue. “I invited the prayer because we must unite as a nation — while embracing our religious differences…
The boy is wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates kippah and glasses, and he’s sheltering in the arm of a Pittsburgh police officer to whom he’s given a Tupperware container full of what looks like homemade cookies. There’s also a handwritten note, from Lily, 6, and Mikey, 9: “Thank you for keeping the Jews in the neighborhood…
When I heard about the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue, the first thought that ran through my mind was, “I wonder if I know the attacker.” Growing up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, I was often the only Jew that any of my classmates had met. I began to receive death threats…
On Saturday, a man entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 Jews. It was a horrific, heinous crime. Sadly, rather than bringing Jews closer together, it seems to be only dividing us apart. In the past, after terror attacks in Israel, I have looked at my Instagram feed just after a terror attack in…
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