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Taft letter against Brandeis on the auction block
JTAApr 28, 2016
LOS ANGELES A letter written by former President William Howard Taft opposing the nomination of Louis Brandeis to become a Supreme Court justice and called...
More flooding in Houston
JTAApr 28, 2016
HOUSTON Massive flooding has caused serious damage to the Jewish community of Houston for the second time in less than a year and just days before Passover. Dozens of...
Harvard student calls Israeli politician ‘smelly’
JTAApr 28, 2016
BOSTON The head of a student group at Harvard Law School has apologized for asking Israeli lawmaker Tzipi Livni, How is it that you are so smelly? Husam El-Qoulaq...
174 Oberlin profs condemn anti-Semitic posts
JTAApr 14, 2016
OBERLIN, Ohio A letter condemning an Oberlin professors anti-Semitic Facebook posts has reportedly garnered signatures from the majority of the Ohio colleges...
Whole Foods CEO distances himself from Gafni
JTAApr 14, 2016
NEW YORK Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey reportedly has resigned from disgraced rabbi Marc Gafnis New Age think tank. According to a Forward report on...
Obama’s Jewish liaison departs
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 31, 2016
WASHINGTON You get to listen to Jews yelling at you. You get to listen to mandarins tell you why they wont listen to Jews. You get to emcee a […]
Judge Garland’s Jewish life
Uriel Heilman, JTAMar 24, 2016
WASHINGTON Americans have heard a lot about Merrick Garland since President Barack Obama nominated him last week to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. But...
Obama shares foreign policy regrets
JTAMar 17, 2016
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama once invoked his own unlikely trajectory to the presidency to make the case to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he...
18,000 activists coming to AIPAC
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 17, 2016
WASHINGTON Here are five things to watch for at this years annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is taking place here March...
Michigan Jews help out in Flint
JTAMar 10, 2016
By David Stanley FLINT, Mich. — At 86, Jeanne Aaronson is blind and lives alone, but she has seen a lot over the years. She lived in Flint when it was […]
