ADL “Outraged” By Attack on reform Jews Made by Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Cabinet Minister
– – The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is outraged at derogatory comments about Reform Jews made by Israel’s Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay, who is from the Sephardic Haredi Shas Party. More...
Still Accosted by Politicians, Sydney Leathers Snags another Weiner
The porn star from Indiana who put a sexting nail in the coffin of Anthony Weiner’s political career, which was moribund after a previous illicit sex text scandal, has snagged yet another Democratic More...
Embattled Sheldon Silver Is Not Stepping Down, his Assembly Loyalists Are Stepping Up
NY State Assembly Speaker Silver is not quitting his job, the NY Times reported, he only “temporarily delegates his duties as speaker to a group of senior Assembly members.” That means that the More...
Elections in Israel: Half of Shas
THE SHAS party has split into two. Opinion polls show that both parts are hovering around the 3.12% threshold which is now necessary for entering the Knesset, after the minimum was raised by the last Knesset. Many More...
J.K. Rowling: There Was a Jewish Student at Hogwarts
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been making public new information about characters in the, possibly in an effort to milk some more magical milk out of this cow, and so on Tuesday, just before the More...
Strongest Jewish Politician in NY State May Be Deposed over Handling of Sex Harassment
NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), arguably the most powerful Jewish politician in a state that has a Jewish senator and several Jewish Congressmen, is scheduled to give a deposition under More...
With 16, 000 Unfamiliar Employees, Returning CEO Bloomberg Orders Name Tags for All
It did not take long for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to return to his anal retentive ways. Not only has he insisted that employees at Bloomberg offices wear name tags so that he can learn their names, More...
Toronto Replaces Disgraced Mayor, Rejects Brother’s Bid for Top Job
Toronto voters replaced their notorious mayor, Rob Ford, on Monday and rejected an attempt by his brother to take the city’s top job, electing instead a conservative politician and broadcaster who More...
Independence Referendums Since The Second World War
“Should Scotland be an independent country?” 4.3 million Scots will be answering this question today after months of anticipation, discussion and debate. Scotland’s independence referendum certainly More...
Harvard Professor Jeffrey Frankel: The Subsidy Trap
– Few policies place good economics so directly at odds with good politics as subsidies for food and energy. The issue of unaffordable subsidies is now front and center for three of the world’s most More...