Reuters
By Reuters
-
Fast Forward Arab Bank Wins U.S. Appeal Over Thousands of Terror-Finance Claims
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that thousands of non-U.S. citizens could not pursue claims against Arab Bank Plc for providing support to militant groups behind attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a 2013 ruling that dismissed lawsuits against the Jordan-based bank,…
-
Fast Forward Israeli Troops Kill Bethlehem Protester in Arrest Raid, Say Palestinians
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian protester while they were carrying out an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources said. Residents of the Deheishe Refugee Camp said Malek Shahin, 19, was among a group of people protesting against the soldiers who had come to arrest two…
-
Fast Forward New York Approves $20M for Private School Security Guards
New York City will spend nearly $20 million next year to pay for unarmed security guards at private and religious schools, despite criticism from outside groups. The city council voted 41-4 on Monday in favor of the expenditure, which will reimburse private and religious schools with more than 300 students for expenses related to hiring…
-
Fast Forward Palestinian Shot Dead After Stabbing Israeli
A Palestinian man stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday and was then shot dead by security forces, Israeli police said. Such incidents have become a daily occurrence in Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank since the eruption two months ago of a wave of Palestinian…
-
Fast Forward Sweden Rift With Israel Deepens Over ‘Execution’ Remark
Relations between Sweden and Israel hit a fresh low on Sunday after Israel said Sweden’s foreign minister had accused it of unlawful killings and Stockholm responded by saying that the comments had been “blown out of reasonable proportion.” Relations between the two countries have nose-dived since Sweden’s Social Democrat-led government recognized a Palestinian state last…
-
Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Says She’d Improve Ties With Israel
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Sunday she would take the relationship between the U.S. and Israel “to the next level,” but warned that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would not be enough to stabilize the entire region. “I would extend an invitation to the Israeli prime minister to come to the United States,” Clinton said…
-
Fast Forward President Obama Meets Gabby Giffords in Anti-Gun Push
President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday that federal investigators would find out what motivated a married couple in California to shoot and kill 14 people, and he asked Americans to stand united after the attacks. “We are strong. And we are resilient. And we will not be terrorized,” Obama said in his weekly address. Obama…
-
Fast Forward Yossi Sarid, Sharp-Tongued Israeli Liberal, Dies at 75
Yossi Sarid, an Israeli commentator and former cabinet minister who was the country’s most acid-tongued dove, died on Friday of a heart attack, aged 75, the broadcaster where he worked said. At Army Radio, Sarid used his morning show, “The Last Word,” to rail eruditely against conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, especially regarding stalled…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
- 2
Culture She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
- 3
Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
- 4
Fast Forward Cory Booker has long embraced Jewish tradition. Now he has married a Jewish woman.
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish World New CD of Yiddish children’s songs by Vilna-born composer David Botwinik
-
News Synagogue protests have shocked NYC and LA. This Michigan congregation has faced them for 22 years
-
Opinion Israel has a crucial lesson to learn from apartheid South Africa. It isn’t what you think
-
Fast Forward Lithuanian government party leader convicted of inciting hatred towards Jews
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
