Foundation to give award named for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch
The late Supreme Court justice's family has objected to the honors
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Shortly after assuming his job as senior adviser to the president, Jared Kushner received an unusual warning from intelligence officials. His close friend, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Kushner was told, may be serving Chinese interests. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, reported that Deng Murdoch, a successful Chinese businesswoman and ex-wife of media mogul…
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Fast Forward Fox News Scion James Murdoch Gives $1M To ADL After Charlottesville
James Murdoch, the son and heir apparent of News Corp magnate Rupert Murdoch, pledged on Thursday to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League in an impassioned letter in which he condemned President Trump’s actions after the weekend violence in Charlottesville. “I’m writing to you in a personal capacity, as a concerned citizen and a…
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News How Abe (Foxman) Bonded With Rupert (Murdoch) — at a $8,850-a-Week California Spa
Former Anti-Defamation League leader Abraham Foxman is viewed by many as a Jewish leader with a unique common man’s touch. But that has not hindered his twice-yearly visits, over two decades, to the exclusive Golden Door, a secluded spa on 600 acres of hills, meadows and gardens 35 miles north of San Diego, from where…
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Opinion Run Charlie Cartoons? Times Frets as Others Act
The New York Times made an awkward attempt this afternoon to examine the presumably anxious debate in the American news media over whether or not to reproduce the new Charlie Hebdo cover with its image of Muhammad. The trouble is, there isn’t much of a debate. The Times is one of just a handful of…
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Opinion Menachem Stark and God’s Missing Cliff Notes
Amid the torrent of ink spilled over the murder of Menachem Stark — some of it callous, some of it defensive, much of it self-righteous — one of the smartest pieces appeared Monday on the website of the Jewish Press, the Orthodox Brooklyn weekly. Written by the paper’s online editor and columnist, the irreplaceable Yori…
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Opinion When Putin Speaks
It’s hard to know exactly how to respond to Vladimir Putin’s op-ed essay in Thursday’s New York Times. On the one hand, polls show that most Americans agree with his call to avoid American military engagement in Syria. On the other hand, very few of us want to come out and agree with Putin. Apparently…
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Breaking News Rupert Murdoch Says Sorry for Netanyahu Cartoon
Rupert Murdoch apologised on Monday for a “grotesque” cartoon in his London-based Sunday Times newspaper depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a bloody wall trapping the bodies of Palestinians, after complaints from Jewish groups. The image, which shows Netanyahu holding a trowel dripping blood, was published on Holocaust Memorial Day and carried the caption…
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