JTA
By JTA
-
Fast Forward Figure Skater Max Aaron Scores Big at World Championships
Scoring a new personal best, American Jewish figure skater Max Aaron was part of a trio that landed the U.S. skaters in the top ten at the ISU 2016 World Championships. The six-day international event was held from March 28 to April 3 at the TD Garden, the first time in its 130-year history that…
-
Fast Forward 1,000 London Students Attend Illegal Orthodox Schools: Report
A London firm working with a local education authority said that Jewish schools told it to destroy evidence that up to 1,000 Jewish children were being educated in illegal faith schools. The reports about heders — informal haredi Orthodox Jewish schools, some of them operating without permit and teaching only scripture instead of the national…
-
Fast Forward Belgium Insists Anti-Terror Troops Guarding Synagogues Are Armed
Belgium’s defense ministry denied reports that some soldiers had guarded synagogues in Brussels without ammunition in their rifles. The denial last week by the press department of Belgium’s Ministry of Defense was in reaction to a claim that a senior Brussels rabbi, Menachem Hadad of the Shomre Hadas haredi Orthodox community, made on March 24…
-
Fast Forward Dutch Bank Balks at Probe Into $300K Scam by Fake Jewish Doctor
A Dutch bank refused to release details about an account allegedly used by an impostor Jewish physician to scam $300,000 from an investor. Jan Jozef Rolsma filed with a Dutch court Wednesday a request for an injunction to force ING Bank to disclose the identity of the holder of the account, which he said was…
-
Fast Forward Turkish Leader Meets American Jews Amid Reconciliation With Israel
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Jewish leaders here reportedly to smooth ties as Turkey and Israel seek to reconcile. Jewish groups in attendance included the Anti-Defamation League, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish…
-
Fast Forward Palestinian Authority ‘On the Brink of Collapse,’ Mahmoud Abbas Admits
The Palestinian Authority is “on the brink of collapse,” its president, Mahmoud Abbas, told Israeli TV. In an interview with Channel 2 broadcast Thursday night, Abbas also warned of “chaos” if the security cooperation between the P.A. and Israel stops. “There will be rifles and explosions and armed militants everywhere,” Abbas said, according to i24news….
-
The Schmooze Shmuley Boteach Selling New Jersey ‘Manor’ for $3.5M
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who calls himself “America’s Rabbi,” is seeking to sell his mansion in suburban New York City. Boteach, the author of such books as “Kosher Sex” and “Kosher Adultery,” and his wife are asking $3.5 million for their eight-bedroom home in Englewood, New Jersey, NorthJersey.com. The price represents a $4 million drop from last…
-
Fast Forward New New York Envoy Dani Dayan Walks Back J Street Comments
JERUSALEM — Dani Dayan, Israel’s newly named consul general to New York, walked back comments he made about the liberal pro-Israel group J Street in a series of tweets. “Contrary to the headlines, I never called “unJewish” but only a specific action it took. Nevertheless it was wrong,” Dayan said Thursday in a tweet. Dayan,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion In the rush to vilify Israel, genocide scholars ignored the truth
- 2
Fast Forward Coldplay welcomed Israeli fans onstage ‘as equal humans.’ Why are some Jewish people mad?
- 3
Fast Forward Trump lawyer who praised ‘Mein Kampf’ is now accusing Harvard of antisemitism, report says
- 4
Fast Forward The fraudster at the center of an NBA scandal once proclaimed ‘tzedek tzedek tirdof’
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Israel’s strike in Qatar: An audacious bid for victory, or just another foolhardy provocation?
-
Fast Forward University of Oregon cuts spare Judaic studies faculty who had raised alarm
-
Fast Forward As more Jews acquire guns, a Jewish security group urges stronger regulations for synagogues
-
Yiddish די ייִדישע גאַסנשילד פֿונעם פּאַריזער „פּלעצל“ איז צוגעגנבֿעט געוואָרןYiddish street sign for the Pletzel, the Yiddish quarter of Paris, is stolen
דער אינצידענט איז פֿאָרגעקומען בעת אַ ממשותדיקן וווּקס פֿון אַנטיסעמיטיזם אין פֿראַנקרײַך
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
