Unlike other Jewish New Yorkers prized by President Trump for their impeccable loyalty who received plum administration jobs, longtime personal attorney Michael D. Cohen never got the call to go to Washington. Yet on Monday, Washington came for him, in the form of an FBI raid of the fixer’s workplace and home related to Special…
On February 1, 2018, Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward, interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, a legal and cultural icon, is the longest serving Jewish Supreme Court justice, as well as the second woman to ever serve as a justice. She spoke with Eisner for nearly an hour-and-a-half at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. Lauren…
Poland’s Senate passed a controversial bill decried by the U.S. and Israeli government that bans accusations against Polish citizens of collaboration with the Nazis, the Washington Post reported. The would ban accusations of complicity with the Nazi regime or any of the six concentration camps that the Nazis set up in Poland, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, where…
(JTA) — Kenny Ellis isn’t a rabbi. But it wasn’t much of a stretch for him to play one on TV. Ellis is a veteran cantor at Temple Beth Ami, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Santa Clarita, California. After 27 years at the pulpit, he is breaking into prime-time TV this week with two roles…
Remember Mindy Meyer — the young Orthodox Jewish lawyer who ran for New York State Senate with a hot-pink-themed campaign, inspired by Legally Blonde? Well she’s back. Alongside her partner Sara Shulevitz, Meyer, 26, stars in a Barcroft TV ten-minute reality special. The real-life lawyers have opened a criminal defense firm, the Meyer-Kessner and Shulevitz…
Jay Sekulow, Trump’s TV-ready private lawyer and a Messianic Jew, diverted millions of dollars from his not-for-profit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, to his family members’ bank accounts, The Guardian reported Tuesday. Since 2000, the British paper added, $60 million has come to Sekulow’s family and their businesses by way of CASE. CASE reportedly used intensive…
President Donald Trump welcomed an unlikely darling of the Christian right to his inner circle of defenders in mid-June. Attorney Jay Sekulow, the newest addition to Trump’s personal legal defense team, has been accused of fraud in the past. He has put his family in charge of his organizations. And he has been instrumental in…
President Trump just welcomed another unlikely darling of the Christian right with a history of jilted business partners and employees. The newest member of the president’s personal legal team used to be a Jew. His name is Jay Sekulow and you should know who he is. A Messianic Jew Sekulow, 61, converted in college after…
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