NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Shoshana Cardin, a Baltimore philanthropist who was the first woman to be chairwoman of her city’s Jewish federation, the national umbrella body of the Jewish federation movement and also of the powerful Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has died. Cardin, who was in failing health in recent years, was 91, according to JmoreLiving.com. Known […]

NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Missouri lawmakers have called for a special session to consider impeaching a governor, a first for the state, in the case of Eric Greitens, its first Jewish governor. The state legislature will convene on May 18 to consider discipline against Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican, who has been accused of coercing a woman into sexual […]

NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Uber suspended one of its drivers in Chicago pending an investigation into an Israeli diplomat’s claim that the driver threw him out for speaking in Hebrew. Itay Milner, deputy consul general of Israel to the Midwest, wrote on Facebook Thursday, May 5, that he was 10 minutes into his ride, which he booked with the ride-sharing application of […]

NEW YORK  CITY (JTA) – Rabbi Aaron Panken, the president of Hebrew Union College, was killed piloting a small aircraft in the Hudson Valley area of New York state. MidHudson News reported that the plane crashed in a wooded area in the Town of Wawayanda, near the New Jersey border Saturday, May 5. A passenger, Frank Reiss, a flight instructor, was injured. An […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — In congressional testimony, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently predicted that the popular social media application would have the tools to stop hate speech before it spreads within the next decade. Zuckerberg, speaking Tuesday, April 10, to senators concerned in part about Facebook’s susceptibility to foreign powers who would use the service to meddle in American elections, said […]

NEW YORK CITY (JTA) — Robert Mueller is reportedly investigating a payment to President Donald Trump’s foundation from a Ukrainian steel magnate who, among other things, has supported the resurgence of the country’s Jewish community. Mueller, the special counsel leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, is looking into a $150,000 donation made by Viktor Pinchuk to […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shared a recent Facebook post blaming the Holocaust in part on gun control and attacking survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The post was one of several identified by recently The Hill as posted by Virginia Thomas. They registered strong disagreement with gun control while criticizing the survivors […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield A key to the success of Andy Borowitz’s daily satire for the New Yorker is there’s often more than a grain or three of truth in what he says. That’s the case in a recent one declaring “Video emerges of Trump lying under oath.” The lie, Borowitz said, was the presidential inaugural oath — remember, it’s the […]

NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – At least six Jewish civil rights organizations are urging the Supreme Court to block President Donald Trump’s most recent ban on travel from a number of predominately Muslim countries. The groups filed a joint amicus brief with the court asking it to uphold lower court rulings that have blocked the “Muslim ban.” The brief, spearheaded by […]

Without issuing a comment, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thereby leaving the lower court ruling standing. By SEAN SAVAGE (JNS) – The United States Supreme Court on Monday, April 2, declined to hear an appeal regarding a lawsuit brought forth by American victims of Palestinian terrorism. The case, Sokolow v. Palestine Liberation Organization, contended that the PLO and Palestinian Authority were […]