White House senior advisor Stephen Miller’s uncle has once again condemned his nephew, but this time in a much more public form: by writing an op-ed for Politico. David Glosser, whose sister Miriam Glosser Miller is Stephen Miller’s mother, rehashed the immigration history of his family, which he claims wouldn’t exist today had the strict…
Once upon a time, a man named Wolf Lieb Glotzer fled anti-Semitism in current-day Belarus and found himself in American coal country. Glotzer’s enterprising sons also joined him in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Before long, they Anglicized their names and opened Glosser Bros. Department Store. Like so many immigrants before and since, the family became known as…
Some people (specifically Jews) would say Ivanka Trump peaked in 2009 when she married Jared Kushner. Those same people would probably agree that in the present day, the daughter of President Trump is no longer in her prime. When her father was elected president and she accepted a position in his government, we watched to…
Updated, August 8, 1:10 p.m. A new proposal led by White House senior advisor Stephen Miller, expected within the next few weeks, would limit citizenship for legal immigrants, NBC News reported. According to drafts examined and other descriptions, legal migrants who have used welfare and other publicly-funded programs may be “hindered” from obtaining citizenship, NBC…
Ivanka Trump spoke out against family separations at the border on Thursday, calling it a “low point,” the New York Daily News reported. “That was a low point for me,” she said in an interview at an Axios Newsmakers event. “I feel very strongly about that. I am very vehemently against family separation and the…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Forverts readers, whether fluent Yiddish-speakers or students just beginning to master the language, often write in asking how one might say a certain word in the mame-loshn. Usually the word in question will be related to a topic in the news or an approaching holiday. Our standard…
A neo-Nazi group held a rally in a Manhattan park Saturday, where members unveiled a large banner that read, “Stop the invasion, end immigration,” Gothamist reported Tuesday. Photos from Fort Tyron park in Inwood show the group, Identity Evropa, standing over the banner on the arched Billings Arcade, as well as waving American flags and…
I lived in Shiraz, Iran during the 1970’s. The Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran had money from selling oil and was buying early warning radar from Westinghouse. The contract called for Westinghouse engineers to go to Iran and teach the Iranian engineers how to operate the equipment — and so, we went. In a small…
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