(JTA) — The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors unanimously approved Israel’s opposition leader Isaac Herzog to replace Natan Sharansky as its head. The board voted on the appointment Sunday June 24, accepting the nomination of the Leadership Nominating Committee, composed of the leaders of The Jewish Agency’s constituent organizations – the Jewish Federations…
(JTA) — Three Israeli soldiers on foot patrol were wounded after being hit by a car with Palestinian license plates. The Israel Defense Forces said that the incident, which occurred on Saturday night outside the Palestinian village of Husan near the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, was a suspected car-ramming attack. The car drove…
(JTA) — Bulgaria will open an honorary consulate in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly Cabinet meeting that he spoke the previous night with his counterpart, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who informed him of the decision. Borisov visited Israel earlier this month, meeting with Netanyahu and Israeli President Reuven…
(JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces fired a Patriot missile at an unmanned drone that approached Israeli airspace from Syria. The IDF was unable to verify whether the drone was hit. It retreated from the border, the IDF said. A commander in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad said the unmanned aerial vehicle…
The career advice department at the University of Exeter on the south west coast of England sent out an inspirational quote in a mass email. One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. But, as local newspaper the Falmouth Packet reports, the inspiration they are drawing on comes from Nazi…
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, said Washington would announce its Middle East peace plan soon, and press on with or without Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. The comments underlined gaping divisions between Washington and the Palestinian leadership that have widened since Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December and moved the U.S. Embassy…
(JTA) — An El Al Airlines flight from New York to Israel was delayed by more than an hour after four Haredi Orthodox men refused to take their assigned seats next to women. The incident took place on Thursday night and was recounted in a Facebook post by one of the passengers on the flight,…
(JTA) (JTA) — When Italy’s interior minister recommended creating a “registry” of Roma, his remark was merely the latest addition to a long list of anti-Roma statements by senior European leaders. In March, Janos Lazar, the right-hand man for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said: “Once we let them in, they will take over.” In…
(JTA) — Lots of people have been comparing the government’s policy of separating families to the Holocaust. But Paul Krugman, the liberal’s liberal economics columnist at the New York Times, has a different Jewish historical analogy: He says the policy is like the age-old blood libel against the Jewish people. The blood libel is an…
Stephen Miller’s third grade classmate vividly remembers sitting next to him in school — divided by a piece of tape Miller put down to separate them. In an essay for Politico, John Muller recalls how it was hard to get through to young Miller, now a senior White House adviser known widely as the harsh…
Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-California) called for the firing of White House aide Stephen Miller over his spearheading of family separation and the bungled “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. Lowenthal — whose district covers Long Beach, just south of where Miller grew up in Santa Monica — called for the conservative firebrand’s ouster on June 22, two…
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