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NY Times Apologizes Again for Anti-Semitism, But Cartoonist Remains Defiant

The Times editorial board calls itself “stalwart supporters” of Israel, while the cartoonist responsible for recent charges of anti-Semitism claimed that Trump encourages ‘the expansionist radicalism of Netanyahu.” By: WIN Staff Following expressions of outrage and demands for action over the publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon in the New York Times on April 25, the […]

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AG Barr Defends Handling of Mueller Report

Attorney General William Barr appeared before Congress on Wednesday to defend his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s March 22 report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, saying the decision to release an early summary of the report was his and dismissing questions about his depiction of Mueller’s findings. By: Masood Farivar In […]

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US Considers Designating Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Org

President Donald Trump is considering placing Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on a U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, the White House said Tuesday. Edited by: JV Staff “The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern, and this designation is working its way through the internal process,” […]

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California Synagogue Shooting Victim, Lori Gilbert-Kaye Remembered as “Loving, Caring Woman” at Funeral

On Monday afternoon, Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, the woman shot and killed while attending Passover services at Chabad of Poway, was laid to rest amongst throngs of mourners. She was remembered as a loving, giving woman by her husband, her daughter, friends and members of her congregation. Edited by: JV Staff Kaye was described by one […]

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NYU Student Claims Campus is Gripped with Severe Anti-Semitism

NYU has permitted what a complaint filed last week with the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights calls “extreme anti-Semitism” to grow on its Greenwich Village campus. By: Talbott McGee Adela Cojab, 22, a senior at the school, says that a pro-Palestinian organization has helped make a “hostile atmosphere” for the school’s Jewish […]

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