JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Palestinian teens from the West Bank entered Israel carrying home-made machine guns. The teens, from Nablus, were found by a Border Police foot patrol in the Seam Zone, between the Green Line and Israel’s security barrier, outside the community of Oranit near central Israel. They had tried unsuccessfully to run away,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Gazan Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed during clashes at the Israel-Gaza border. Some 7,000 Palestinians gathered in several spots along the border and participated in riots including throwing rocks and burning tires and throwing pipe bombs and other incendiary devices. The boy, 12, was identified by Palestinian officials as…
(JTA) — A judge sentenced Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to seven years in prison for federal corruption charges. The sentence Friday came after a verdict in May in a second trial in two years for Silver. An appellate court overturned his 2016 verdict because of faulty jury instructions. Silver, 74, who…
An annual Jewish event in the Catskill Mountains was shut down Friday morning, after years of illegal operation, The Yeshiva World reported. The New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division made the decision to cancel the event June 21. Tickets were still being sold as early at 9 a.m. Friday. Deputies from the Sullivan County…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian teen arrested in part for slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers standing guard in a West Bank Palestinian village, was released from prison. Ahed Tamimi, 17, and her mother, who also was jailed for incitement, were released early Sunday morning and taken by Israeli officials to the West Bank checkpoint of Jabbara,…
A father killed while camping with his two young daughters in California was shot once in the head, a coroner’s office official said Wednesday, citing an autopsy. Tristan Beaudette’s death, at the end of June, was ruled a homicide, CNN reported. The 35-year-old from Irvine, California, had been camping with his 2- and 4-year-old daughters…
Listed among PayPal CEO Dan Schulman’s extensive resume is his affinity for Krav Maga, a military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces. Schulman said in an interview with the New York Times, that when he spent time in Israel as a teenager, he took Youth Military Training. “I’ve been doing Krav…
Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Ministerial To Advance Religious Freedom on Thursday, where he defended religious freedom, expressing that “acts of violence and hatred and anti-Semitism must end.” At the first-ever event, held at the State Department, Pence gave examples of the frequency in which Jews are attacked. “Just 70 years after the Holocaust,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen said that Trump knew in advance about a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower at which Russians offered to provide damaging information about his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, CNN reported on Thursday. CNN, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter, said Cohen…
(JTA) — Three Jewish organizations called on Stanford University to take action against a student who threatened to “physically fight Zionists” on campus in response to a recent law passed in Israel. A statement by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the World Jewish Congress and the Lawfare Project called on the…
(JTA) — Israel said it will build hundreds of new homes in a settlement where a Palestinian killed an Israeli and wounded two others in a knife attack Thursday. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman took to Twitter Friday to announce 400 new housing units in the Adam settlement north of Jerusalem. “The best answer to terrorism…
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