GENEVA, May 15 (Reuters) – The 47 member states of the U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday to debate the deteriorating human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the U.N. said on Tuesday. “The special session is being convened per an official request submitted this evening by Palestine and…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited an Orthodox Jewish school for the first time since taking office, the New York Post reported Tuesday. DeVos reportedly met with students and faculty at the Manhattan High School for Girls. She will also attend another Jewish school on Wednesday, the Post added. DeVos has toured private schools affiliated with…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Researchers in the Dutch capital were able to recover two pages from a diary of Anne Frank containing texts on sexuality that she had written and erased. The pages, whose content for decades had remained unknown, appeared in one of several diaries penned by the Jewish teenage diarist during her time hiding…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinians delayed protesting at the Gaza border fence on Tuesday afternoon as funerals for the at least 58 victims of the previous date’s violence took place. Of the dead in Monday’s violent demonstrations, one is reported to be a baby who died of inhaling tear gas. At least five of the dead…
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian near the Gaza border on Tuesday, local health officials said, as Palestinian protesters turned out in smaller numbers than on Monday, when dozens were killed by Israeli gunfire. The 51-year-old man was fatally shot along the frontier in the central Gaza Strip after thousands of Palestinians took part in funerals…
George Soros’ charitable foundations announced Tuesday that they are leaving Hungary, the New York Times reported. The Hungarian billionaire and philanthropist has been the target of sustained anti-Semitic rhetoric by Hungary’s Prime Minister, Victor Orban. Orban, an avowed nationalist and critic of Western Europe’s embrace of refugees, blamed Soros for much of the country’s economic…
In his address at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Jared Kushner blamed Palestinian protestors, dozens of whom were killed by Israeli security, for causing unrest, the Daily News reported Monday. “Those provoking problems like we see today in Gaza are part of the problem and not part of the solution,” Kushner, President…
The Las Vegas newspaper owned by Sheldon Adelson ran a rare front-page opinion piece in its Monday edition, written by Adelson’s wife. The opinion piece, entitled “A great day for Israel — and for America,” praised the Trump administration’s move of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. It was written by Dr. Miriam Adelson,…
Dozens of chanting, singing Jewish demonstrators blocked a major Washington thoroughfare on Monday to denounce President Trump’s moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and Israel’s killing of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border. Chanting “Stop the violence,” about 100 protesters from the IfNotNow movement blocked Pennsylvania Avenue, which links the White House and the white-domed…
Former U.S. presidential candidate Michele Bachmann apologized for her prior efforts to convince Jews they should convert to Christianity, the Times of Israel reported. Bachmann’s expression of regret came on Sunday while she spoke at a Knesset Jewish-Christian Bible study in Jerusalem. She referred to her words as “ignorant.” She declined to acknowledge specifically what…
(JTA) — Reform Jewish leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs said he was “alarmed, concerned and profoundly saddened” by the deaths of more than 50 Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border. “That Israel has the right, and even the obligation, to defend herself and her borders is beyond dispute,” Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism,…
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