After pardoning Jared Kushner’s father in his first term, Trump picks him as ambassador to France for his second

President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Charles Kushner, his son-in-law’s father, to be ambassador to France, marking a reversal of Kushner’s public standing after he served time in prison nearly two decades ago. Kushner, whose son Jared is married to Ivanka Trump, went to jail in 2005 for fraud, tax evasion and witness tampering. […]

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Lee Zeldin, Trump’s pick to helm EPA, says he received bomb threat with ‘pro-Palestinian themed message’

Lee Zeldin, the rising Jewish Republican star tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said he and his family were among other incoming officials targeted with bomb threats, in his case, one that came with a pro-Palestinian message. The FBI said Wednesday it was aware of “numerous bomb threats and swatting […]

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Deportations, lawsuits, increased scrutiny: How the Trump administration could handle campus antisemitism

Jewish parents in Maryland’s Montgomery County have no clue how their school district’s antisemitism investigation is proceeding.  It’s been more than nine months since the U.S. Department of Education opened its Title VI civil rights probe into reports of antisemitic bullying, including at pro-Palestinian student protests, at the suburban Maryland district. The case was one […]

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Schusterman foundation, whose fortune comes from oil, makes first donation to climate group

The Schusterman family is in the oil and gas business. Now they are also donors to a group that believes the emissions from burning fossil fuels constitute an existential threat to humankind. Newly released tax disclosures for 2023 show that the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies gave a $300,000 grant to Adamah, the largest […]

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In a post Oct. 7 world, what are Jewish high school seniors looking for in a college?

This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. College campuses continue to places of uncertainty for many Jewish students, though the pro-Palestinian protests that roiled campuses and led to accusations of antisemitism following Oct. […]

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Adam Schiff, California’s Jewish senator-elect and Trump’s nemesis, says the US is ‘very much weakened as a democracy’

WASHINGTON — Long ago, when Adam Schiff was in Slovakia on a temporary assignment from the U.S. Justice Department, he decided to seek out his family’s ancestral home in Lithuania. The idea left his grandmother perplexed. “I think she said something along the lines of, ‘We fought like hell to get out of there. Why […]

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Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney general, wants FBI to question pro-Hamas protesters

Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be his attorney general, said last year that campus protesters who express support for Hamas should face FBI questioning. Trump named Bondi, who served as Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019, on Thursday. The nomination came after his first pick, the scandal-plagued  former Florida Rep. […]

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