By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — It looks like Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged improprieties associated with Donald Trump’s presidency and election campaign, is wrapping up his report. Or maybe not. Mueller has over his near-two year run led a leak-free operation, and no one is saying on the record that the report is completed. Not only that, […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elan Carr’s career until now has been equal parts prosecutor, policy wonk, politico and performance artist. That makes him perfect for his new job as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor anti-Semitism, according to people most familiar with his appointment, which was made public on Monday, Feb. 4. Ira Forman, Carr’s predecessor, who has been leading […]

By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN, BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) –For many Jewish organizations, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time to talk about the current state of black-Jewish relations. There’s a lot to talk about this year, from the controversy over ties between Women’s March organizer Tamika Mallory and Louis Farrakhan, to common cause over the rise of white […]

By MARCY OSTER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) — Fox News apologized after airing a graphic implying that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. The graphic appeared on screen on Monday morning Jan. 21, showed a portrait of Ginsburg in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. with the words “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2019. […]

By MARCY OSTER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – They didn’t share the same religion, but they shared the same pain. Ten members of a Pittsburgh congregation who survived the October attack on their building, along with their rabbi, traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, to worship with the members of a church that suffered a similar shooting in 2015. Eleven worshippers were […]

How the Forward ran low on cash — and miracles — before ending its print edition and laying off its top editors By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA)  – A decade ago, the publisher of the Jewish Daily Forward asked his board to believe in miracles. “We are supposed to believe in miracles; we are forbidden to rely on them, […]

NEW YORK CITY (JNS) – Donald Trump on Monday. Jan. 14, signed new bipartisan legislation committing the United States to preventing genocide, named in honor of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, introduced by Congressman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), and Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) makes […]

By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Ben, a Jewish federal employee based in the greater Washington, D.C., area, is worried about how he will pay for his day-to-day expenses. A financial specialist at the Transportation Security Administration, he hasn’t been working since Dec. 22, when the government shut down. Ben worries about “even the most basic things,” he recently […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield Paul Ryan said one of his proudest achievements as speaker of the House was enactment of the 10-year, $1.5 trillion tax cut, and one of his deepest regrets—“our greatest unfinished business”—was his failure to enact what he euphemistically called “entitlement reform.” Obamcare GOP Bane I’d call that “disaster averted.”  His plan for entitlement reform, a […]

The Albany Times Union DOTHAN, Ala. – She was already going to be late to the church, where once again she would try to explain her religion, even though it seemed like most people in her town never really get it. And now the latkes are burning. Lisa Priddle wonders why she is trying so hard, why she is prepping […]