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President Trump’s son Eric accused journalist Bob Woodward of trying to “make three extra shekels” with his new book, a turn of phrase that many have accused of having anti-Semitic undertones. Woodward’s book “Fear,” which portrays the Trump and his administration as being incompetent and corrupt, has been slammed by White House figures and allies…
JTA) — President Donald Trump last year agreed with a former top aide that Jared Kushner should not serve in the White House due to potential complications involving Kushner’s business dealings, the new book by journalist Bob Woodward claims. According to a story in Newsweek, “Fear: Trump in the White House” says that Trump contemplated…
Little did I suspect that Bob Woodward, my closest college friend, would bring down a president and become what many people have called “the greatest investigative reporter of all time.” I think of him often, especially now with “Fear,” his book about the Trump White House, which is being published on September 11. I first…
If you’re lucky and smart, life as a newshound means that your day job consists of being a semi-ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances. You invariably sidle up to history — and its makers — just by showing up for work. As a boy growing up in Hitler’s Berlin, Harry Rosenfeld, author of the new…
Will the extent of our 37th president’s anti-Semitism ever cease to shock? Just when it seems we might have arrived at the last recorded utterance of “Jew boy” (sometimes said in front of Henry Kissinger, the Jewish secretary of state), there are new tapes to endure. The latest piece of evidence to add to the…
“Do you have to be handsome to play the role of a Nazi commander?” That was a question that actor Ralph Fiennes was asked during a January 9 discussion, titled “The Power of Film and the Holocaust” at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Fiennes didn’t have a clear answer. The British actor,…
Hybrid event in London and online.
Aug 14, 2022
1:30 pm ET ·
Join audiences and participants from across the globe for this live celebration of Yiddish songs, poems, jokes, stories, games, serious and funny - all performed in Yiddish with English translation.
