Jewish News You Can Use...

By Maggie Haberman, NYT

Donald J. Trump met with roughly 30 reporters for Jewish media outlets and with Orthodox Jewish activists in his office on Thursday afternoon. ...

Midway through the meeting, according to the publication The Forward, Mr. Trump was asked how he would refer to what are commonly described as the West Bank settlements. Mr. Trump turned to Jason Greenblatt, who is not a campaign adviser, but is the chief legal officer of the Trump Organization. 

“Jason, how would you respond to that?” Mr. Trump said. He said that Mr. Greenblatt would better understand the issue. 

Mr. Greenblatt, in turn, said that he would not describe the land as “occupied” and that there was little reason to get “hung up on terminology,” according to The Forward’s account. Mr. Trump never directly answered the question. 

...

Yossi Gestetner, a Rockland County activist and a co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council, said he had arranged the meeting, arguing that some politicians in New York “shun the Jewish community.” 

 ...

Mr. Gestetner said. “He smartly found a good way not to answer, which whatever he would have said would anyway be criticized by another segment involved in this issue.”

By Jason Horowitz, NYT

The Sanders campaign’s announcement on Tuesday that Simone Zimmerman would be its national Jewish outreach coordinator delighted her fellow left-wing Jewish political activists and encouraged their belief that public expressions of disgust with the Israeli government had edged into the acceptable mainstream of Democratic politics.

They might have been getting ahead of themselves.

On Thursday, Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign suspended Ms. Zimmerman, 25, after revelations that she had used vulgarities in Facebook posts about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Hillary Clinton.