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Apart from the vandalism and swastika graffiti discovered in the United States during the past few days, quite a few Jewish centers have received bomb threats. Some 100 schools and community centers over recent weeks have received such warnings in 33 states, plus two more in Canada. During a speech on Wednesday morning President Trump

WASHINGTON — The Senate easily confirmed Rick Perry as President Donald Trump’s energy secretary Thursday, six years after the former Texas governor famously promised to eliminate the agency he will now lead. The Senate voted 62-37 in favor of Perry’s nomination. The comfortable margin highlighted the general lack of rancor surrounding Perry’s nomination — even

There was no press honeymoon for President Trump during his first month in office. A meticulous new study by the Media Research Center finds that 88 percent of the broadcast news coverage of Mr. Trump and his team was “hostile” during the first 30 days of office. The coverage was intense and plentiful. The study,

TRENTON — A door painted with the Puerto Rican flag over the weekend was defaced by the building’s owner just days later with a swastika, inspiring the group of artists and others to host an anti-hate rally there on Saturday. Samuel Kanig said he received permission from the owner of the long-vacant building at Genesee

An Upper West Side Unitarian church near Central Park has been vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. Swastika symbols along with the words “race office” were engraved on two wooden doors at the Fourth Universalist Society on Central Park West between 75th and 76th Streets, church officials said Wednesday. The parishioners at the Fourth Universalist Society found

Perhaps President Donald Trump will feel the urgency to speak out fully and act more aggressively against the dramatic increase in anti-Semitic incidents if he realizes the threat affects his own family — namely, his daughter, Ivanka, a convert to Judaism; her Jewish husband, Jared Kushner; and his Jewish grandchildren attending the kinds of schools

Federal investigators looking into the recent wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and schools believe the calls to be coordinated and conducted using “spoofing” and voice-masking technology, according to a report from BuzzFeed. The report cites Paul Goldenberg national director for Secure Community Network, a homeland security initiative formed by a number of

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide Jewish institutions with caller information to help solve a recent string of bomb threats. In a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Schumer asked that the targeted institutions be granted special waivers allowing them to work with law enforcement to access

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions should step aside from any role in the investigation of potential contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Thursday. McCarthy’s remarks made him the highest-ranking member of his party to say that Sessions should step aside from the investigation. The FBI