The Supreme Court has upheld a $20,000 fine a lower court judge levied against Orly Taitz, the Soviet Jewish émigré lawyer-dentist who has been at the forefront of the so-called “birther” movement, as punishment for filing lawsuits based on claims that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and therefore not ...

Oh, no! Patti Stanger, better known to readers of this blog as the self-appointed Millionaire Matchmaker, decided over the weekend to call it quits with her fiancé, Andy Friedman. We don’t know exactly how things went down, but on Friday afternoon, she was Tweeting lovestruck missives, and by Saturday morning she was announcing to her ...

Prosecutors in New Jersey have charged a 35-year-old Orthodox man, Eliyahu Weinstein, with targeting fellow Jews as far afield as California and Israel in a $200 million real-estate investment scam. Weinstein’s lawyers claim the charges are just sour grapes from disgruntled former partners, but the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports that Weinstein may have had dealings ...

For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this week has been one long, continuous photo-op: Visiting President Obama at the White House; chatting with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America; facing off with Katie Couric on CBS Evening News; kibitzing with Larry King. This afternoon, he’ll be at the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan, where ...

How often do you hear Mark Twain quoted at a high-level diplomatic summit? Not often enough, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to do his part to fix that: In his brief appearance today at the Oval Office with President Obama, Netanyahu announced that, pace Twain, rumors of the demise of the U.S.-Israel relationship ...

Last week, as President Barack Obama was in the Rose Garden announcing that he’d relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command in Afghanistan, about 40 people were sitting in a windowless midtown Manhattan meeting room listening to a retired Israeli general, Uzi Dayan, lay out his assessment of the security risks to the Jewish state inherent ...

In case you hadn’t heard, New York University is opening a new campus this fall in Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich emirate that has also attracted outposts of the Guggenheim and the Louvre. The project is the brainchild of NYU’s current president, John Sexton, who says his effort to build “the world’s honors college” is a ...

Last night, at the Living Legacy gala thrown by Chabad’s Washington arm, American Friends of Lubavitch, at the Mellon Auditorium in D.C., the countries represented read a little like the World Cup qualifier lineup: England, Denmark, South Korea, Australia, New Jersey (Tim Howard, represent!). The roster also included non-qualifiers like Ireland, Belgium, Cyprus—and, perhaps a ...

It’s been a big week for shuttle diplomacy: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was in Washington, D.C., meeting with President Barack Obama, and top Israeli officials were in New York City meeting with all kinds of influential people.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman arrived at JFK on a red-eye Monday morning and went straight to briefings ...

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a trip to Washington, D.C., amid the aftermath of the Free Gaza flotilla raid. But other members of the Israeli cabinet, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, have been in the United States this week. Over the weekend, Tablet Magazine met with Silvan Shalom—a sometime Likud Party rival ...