Articles by: JewishNews-David

TRUMP SUPREME COURT PICK: It’s Neil Gorsuch

TRUMP SUPREME COURT PICK: It’s Neil Gorsuch

  President Donald Trump selected 10th Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch Tuesday evening as his nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant for nearly… Read More ›

Indian Wells, CA – Tensions Flare As Koch Promises To Hold Trump Accountable

Indian Wells, CA – Tensions Flare As Koch Promises To Hold Trump Accountable

  Indian Wells, CA – Conservative patriarch Charles Koch and his vast network is vowing to oppose President Donald Trump if and when he deviates… Read More ›

Justice Dept. will not defend executive order on travel restrictions

Justice Dept. will not defend executive order on travel restrictions

  Washington – Acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending President Donald Trump’s executive order on… Read More ›

Liberal Jewish movements are the solution, not the problem

Liberal Jewish movements are the solution, not the problem

Op-ed: Orthodoxy, unintentionally, has managed to systematically alienate most of France’s Jews from their identity. If there were Conservative and Reform Jews there, things would… Read More ›

Baghdad – PM Abadi Says Iraq’s Oil Is For Iraqis, In Reaction To Trump

Baghdad – PM Abadi Says Iraq’s Oil Is For Iraqis, In Reaction To Trump

  Baghdad – Iraq’s oil is the property of Iraqis, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday, in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump who… Read More ›

Trump has narrowed his Supreme Court list to 3 nominees

Trump has narrowed his Supreme Court list to 3 nominees

  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has narrowed his choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy to three judges and said he expects to make… Read More ›

Ex-CIA director John Brennan: ‘Trump should be ashamed of himself’ over CIA remarks

Ex-CIA director John Brennan: ‘Trump should be ashamed of himself’ over CIA remarks

  Former CIA Director John Brennan said President Donald Trump “should be ashamed” for using a speech at the agency’s headquarters to boast about himself,… Read More ›

Washington – Senate Democrats Ask Trump Attorney General Pick To Recuse Himself From Russia Probes

Washington – Senate Democrats Ask Trump Attorney General Pick To Recuse Himself From Russia Probes

  Washington – Nine Democratic senators asked President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions, on Tuesday to recuse himself from… Read More ›

Obama commutes WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s sentence — she’ll be free in 5 months

Obama commutes WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s sentence — she’ll be free in 5 months

  President Barack Obama commuted the majority of WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence on Tuesday, with only three days left in office. Manning was… Read More ›

Washington – Trump Team Considers Relocating White House Media Corps

Washington – Trump Team Considers Relocating White House Media Corps

  Washington – Routine media access to the White House could be a thing of the past under Donald Trump’s presidency, with top officials of… Read More ›

Jewish Groups Slam Trump’s ‘Inappropriate’ Comment

Jewish Groups Slam Trump’s ‘Inappropriate’ Comment

Anti-Defamation League: President-elect’s remark about Nazi Germany warrants an apology.   The Anti-Defamation League said a remark made Wednesday by US President-elect Donald Trump comparing… Read More ›

Donald Trump’s big week

Donald Trump’s big week

  Donald Trump is embarking on the most crucial week of his transition into the presidency — and, as usual, he’s at the epicenter of… Read More ›

2017 will be another bad year for the Arab world

2017 will be another bad year for the Arab world

Analysis: All Mideast experts are predicting that least one leader in our neighborhood will be murdered this coming year. Who will it be? Each expert… Read More ›

US House passes motion repudiating UN resolution on Israel

US House passes motion repudiating UN resolution on Israel

Passed with vote of 342-80, House Resolution 11 calls Security Council’s anti-settlements measure a ‘one-sided’ obstacle to peace   WASHINGTON — The US House of… Read More ›

Azaria pardon options seem unlikely

Azaria pardon options seem unlikely

Analysis: whether through a presidential pardon or a military one, having a parole board cut his prison time cut short or a surprisingly lenient sentence,… Read More ›

Security Cabinet decides not to release bodies of Hamas terrorists

Security Cabinet decides not to release bodies of Hamas terrorists

The decision comes following Hamas’s release of a mock video ‘celebrating’ fallen IDF soldier Oron Shaul’s death, whose body is reportedly kept by Hamas as… Read More ›

UN Security Council condemns ‘barbaric’ Istanbul terror attack

UN Security Council condemns ‘barbaric’ Istanbul terror attack

Manhunt underway for gunman who killed at least 39 people, including an Israeli teen, during New Year celebration in nightclub   The UN Security Council… Read More ›

Washington – Obama Has Few Options To Protect Young Immigrants

Washington – Obama Has Few Options To Protect Young Immigrants

  Washington – Barack Obama is under pressure during his final weeks as president to do something — anything — to secure the future of… Read More ›

Trump claims he knows ‘a lot about hacking,’ says safest way to send messages is to ‘write it out and have it sent by courier’

Trump claims he knows ‘a lot about hacking,’ says safest way to send messages is to ‘write it out and have it sent by courier’

  President-elect Donald Trump claimed on Saturday to know “a lot about hacking” and said the best way to send important communications is to “have it delivered… Read More ›

Divide Washington, says Miri Regev

Divide Washington, says Miri Regev

Ministers from the Likud party were quick to sound their criticism of John Kerry’s speech regarding Israel’s role in the conflict.   Likud ministers competed… Read More ›