Last Friday night, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump hosted their first Shabbat meal in their new home in Washington DC. Among the invitees saying kiddish were influential members of the new Trump administration. The next day, one of the attendees, Hope Hicks, Trump’s Director of Strategic Communications, spent her Saturday publicly defending and applauding the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel reportedly is seeking clarification of whether the U.S. travel ban on nationals from seven Arab countries applies to Israelis born in those countries. The French news agency AFP reported that Israel’s Foreign Ministry has been seeking information on whether the ban covers tens of thousands of Israeli citizens, mostly elderly, who were…
The Trump administration’s ban on Muslims from seven nations entering the country has caused mass protests at airports worldwide — but how it is being reported globally is often a matter of translation. In Italy, “they are calling it a “legge razziale” or racial law, which directly ties it to the Italian racial laws instituted…
In his first public appearance after signing his controversial executive order that effectively issued a Muslim ban, President Donald Trump didn’t spend too much time defending himself. Instead he was busy mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I noticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with the fake tears,” Trump told reporters on Monday during a meeting with…
Hundreds of refugees, immigrants and even legal U.S. residents were detained this past weekend following President Trump’s controversial travel ban. Most of the people affected were Muslims, but the ban hit Jews, too. One of them was Manny Dahari, a Yemeni Jew who saved his whole family from their native land. He has a green…
(JTA) — A year after they submitted their application for asylum in the United States, Shahi and his mother expected to be let in. As Iranian Jews who applied for asylum through a federally recognized agency for refugee status, their case was expected to be simple. Shahi (not his real name) is in his late…
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer cried during a press conference condemning President Trump’s Muslim ban on Sunday. Trump’s executive order bans refugees and immigrants from Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Schumer spoke surrounded by recently resettled Syrian refugees and an Iraqi man who served the U.S. Army for 10 years, and just made it…
Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner dressed up for a fancy evening out on Saturday, and shared the news on Twitter, as demonstrators rushed airports to protest President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban.” The contrast between Ivanka Trump’s glamour shot and the plight of refugees around the world did not sit well with many users of…
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