(JTA) — The United States will cut the number of refugees that it will accept for 2019, to the lowest level set since the Refugee Act became law in 1980. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that up to 30,000 refugees will be resettled in the United States in 2019 under the new…
(JTA) — A homemade explosive device was found affixed to a headstone in a Jewish cemetery in New Jersey. The device was discovered on Sunday at the B’nai Abraham Cemetery during the Jewish Federation Cemetery Visiting Day, a public event organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest. The cemetery was evacuated following the discovery of…
(JTA)– Soon-Yi Previn, the wife of filmmaker Woody Allen, defended her husband of 25 years against charges that he sexually abused his adopted daughter when she was 7. “What’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust,” Previn, 47, told New York magazine in an interview published in the Sept. 17 issue and posted on…
(JTA) — A married couple from New York were killed when their small plane crashed near Boston. Dr. Michael Graver, 65, and his wife Jodi Cohen, 52, of Long Island, were killed on Saturday morning when the plane crashed into the woods in Woburn, Massachusetts. The plane crashed about seven miles from the airport and…
(JTA) — The United States has cut $10 million of foreign aid money that was supporting coexistence programs between Israelis and Palestinians. The cuts were first reported Friday in the New York Times. It is believed to have been the last remaining U.S. aid for Palestinian civilians. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has frozen…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of Israels attended the late night funeral for U.S. born Israel activist Ari Fuld, who was killed in a terrorist stabbing attack. The funeral began at close to midnight on Sunday, less than a day after Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four, was stabbed to death by a teenage Palestinian assailant…
Correction Appended Democratic candidate and local Jewish Federation board member Susan Wild has a small lead in a hotly-contested Pennsylvania congressional race that could help decide who controls the House of Representatives in November. Wild, who is running against Republican candidate and former champion cyclist Marty Nothstein, was ahead 46% to 40% in a survey…
The law firm responsible for recovering the money lost in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme has been paid just over $1 billion in legal fees for their work on the case, according to The American Lawyer. The billion-dollar payout for the Ohio-based BakerHoestetler came over the course of nearly a decade, as the firm has recovered…
Police defused a small explosive device discovered Sunday at a Jewish cemetery in New Jersey, according to a Facebook post by the executive director of the local Jewish federation. Officers with the Essex County Sheriff’s Office discovered the device at the B’nai Abraham Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey, during a cemetery visiting day organized by…
Palestinian Ambassador to the United States Husam Zomlot said that he had been expelled from the country and that the bank accounts of his family had been frozen, days after the State Department ordered the closure of the PLO embassy in Washington. “Ambassador Zomlot’s son Said, 7, who is in second grade, and daughter Alma,…
(JTA) — One of the largest donors to the Republican Party in New England, Seth Klarman, is calling on voters to support Democratic candidates in the upcoming elections, and he put his money where his mouth is. Klarman, who is a registered Independent and stresses that “I’m not a Democrat,” told New York Times columnist…
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