The dish, a single peeled tomato cut into eight pieces and drizzled with olive oil and sea salt, is on the menu at HaSalon, his new restaurant in Hell's Kitchen

Pilgrimage to the burial site in Queens, known as the Ohel, takes place ahead of anniversary on Saturday

New York – U.S. employers are hiring workers, but that is only making the Federal Reserve’s job harder. On Friday, the Labor Department said nonfarm employers added 224,000 jobs last month – the most in five months, and not the kind of labor market that would normally cause the U.S. central bank to cut interest [...]

Wacky comedy follows Parisian Jewish family as they turns their failed kosher meat shop into a marijuana factory

Caracas – Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro oversaw a grand military parade to mark the country’s independence day Friday, reveling in his might as commander in chief as the embattled socialist leader comes under mounting criticism for using brutal tactics to crush his opponents. Maduro applauded and pumped his fist as soldiers marched past, tanks rolled [...]

Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden did not shut the door on the idea of having a woman as his 2020 running mate in an interview on Friday, saying it would be great to have a female vice president.
“I think it’d be great to have a female VP, and if I don’t win, I think it’d be great to have a female president,” Biden told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday.
Having a woman on the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket has been viewed as a priority for a number of Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who has vowed to pick a woman running mate if he wins the nomination.
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Orange County, CA – California State Assemblyman Tyler Diep is sorry for a campaign ad depicting his Jewish opponent holding a wad of money. Diep, a Republican, beat Democrat Josh Lowenthal in the November 2018 election. Ahead of the vote, Diep distributed campaign literature showing Lowenthal clutching dollar bills and accused him of putting customers [...]

Spiritual leader briefly detained while protesting eviction of Orthodox community's house of worship by a Chabad-affiliated group

Public security minister says protests were 'an explosion of pain and rage' by those who've faced racism all their lives; PM's son: Rallies funded by NGOs backed by Germany