New York – Alan Dershowitz will take part in a mock trial event in which he will defend biblical characters accused of “kidnapping and child trafficking.” The celebrity lawyer will defend the brothers of Joseph in November at New York’s Temple Emanu-El. In the Bible, Joseph’s brothers kidnap and sell him into slavery because they [...]

Frankfort, KY – The father of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes deliberately violated federal law by funneling corporate contributions to his daughter’s failed 2014 U.S. Senate campaign, a prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of a trial. Jerry Lundergan’s attorney characterized the contributions as mistakes during a hectic period when Grimes’ campaign against [...]

Jerusalem – Israeli politician Ehud Barak recently has revealed that he has on one occasion visited the infamous private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein, where untold atrocities took place. Barak’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein was first highlighted by Likud, in the form oof a tweet sent out by the official Likud twitter account. Barak addressed [...]

Hong Kong – Riot police clashed briefly with pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong’s airport Tuesday night in a chaotic end to a second day of demonstrations that caused mass cancellations and disruptions at the Chinese city’s busy transport hub. Calm eventually returned, with most of the protesters leaving the airport hours after officers armed with [...]

London – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday that getting a free trade deal with the United States would be “a tough old haggle,” after U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton promised the U.K. quick sector-by-sector trade deals once it leaves the European Union. Bolton said after meeting Johnson on Monday that “it might [...]

Jerusalem – Israel deported a Filipino guest worker and her Israel-born son, now 12. Rosemarie and Rohan Perez were sent out Monday evening a week after being arrested in a raid on their Tel Aviv apartment conducted by the Population and Immigration Authority. Rohan was attending a local school, Ynet reported. The Israeli government this [...]

New York – Two guards assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein the night he apparently killed himself in jail have been placed on leave and the warden has been removed as federal authorities investigate the financier’s death, the Justice Department said Tuesday. The announcement came amid mounting evidence that the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center may [...]

Norway – Norway’s public broadcaster has apologized for airing a cartoon in which a Scrabble player forms the word “Jewish swine.” NRK initially defended the video, which was pulled offline this month, against allegations of anti-Semitism out of its desire to “defend the freedom of speech,” NRK broadcasting manager Thor Gjermund Eriksen told the Aftenposten [...]

Erie, PA – A fire chief says there weren’t enough working smoke detectors at a Pennsylvania home day care center where a fire killed five children. Fire Chief Guy Santone told a Tuesday news conference that state officials who inspect home day care centers do not check for smoke detectors. City authorities and state legislators [...]

New Hampshire – Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused The Washington Post of tilting its coverage against him because of his criticism of Amazon and its owner, Jeff Bezos, who also owns the newspaper. During a stump speech in New Hampshire, the Vermont Jewish senator railed against the online megastore and Bezos, who bought the Post [...]