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Trump picks Kelly Craft for US ambassador to UN
JNSApr 25, 2019
With US President Donald Trump nominating Acting US Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Cohen to be US ambassador to Egypt, the nomination of Kelly Craft as US...
Six Jewish takeaways from the Mueller reports
JTAApr 25, 2019
By Josefin Dolsten and Laura E. Adkins NEW YORK — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election was...
Measles and Passover hotels: a challenge
Ben Sales, JTAApr 25, 2019
NEW YORK — In January, before a measles outbreak spread in a few Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York, Channie Klor booked a Passover stay at a hotel in...
It’s not ‘Jewish continuity’ anymore
Ben Sales, JTAApr 11, 2019
NEW YORK — The first time Ross Beroff met Michael Steinhardt, the megadonor offered him and a young woman $100 to go into a corner and talk alone for 15 minutes. If...
Measles outbreak started in Ukraine, traveled to Israel, Brooklyn
JTAApr 11, 2019
JERUSALEM — Israel’s measles outbreak took off in September after thousands of mostly chasidic Orthodox pilgrims brought the virus back from Uman, Ukraine. Tens of...
Rep. Omar’s Jewish advisor
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 04, 2019
WASHINGTON — Almost as soon as a conference call started between Ilhan Omar, the controversial congresswoman, and Jewish community leaders, Hadar Susskind recognized a...
At AIPAC, sparring on what defines anti-Semitism
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 28, 2019
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at AIPAC: “It will always be wrong to use anti-Semitism as a political weapon, always,” Schumer said, reminding the...
AIPAC says it won’t be ‘silenced’
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 28, 2019
WASHINGTON — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee wants you to know it will not be silenced. “When they try to silence us, we speak up, and when they tell us...
Milstein pulls out of AIPAC conference
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 21, 2019
WASHINGTON — Adam Milstein, a major pro-Israel funder, has withdrawn from speaking at next week’s annual AIPAC policy conference following a series of tweets in...
The Omar issue isn’t going away
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 14, 2019
WASHINGTON — Democrats came to an agreement last week on a resolution to denounce anti-Semitism and other forms of bias, but most — particularly the House speaker,...
