(JTA) — The 11-year-old girl whose address at a gun control march in Washington D.C. galvanized activists said she faces taunts because she is black and Jewish. During last month’s March for Our Lives, a response to the Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead, Naomi Wadler, who is both African…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Teenage settlers who erected an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank attacked Israeli soldiers who came to evacuate them. The evacuation on Saturday was met with rocks and pepper spray, according to reports. The soldiers reportedly shot into the air and used tear gas and other riot dispersal methods to halt…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East lobby, launched its 10th anniversary conference with repeated and unflattering comparisons of the two leaders of the countries it straddles, Israel and the United States. The villains that cropped up over and over at the conference opening Saturday night were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier was killed and three others injured when the tank they were riding in along the border with Egypt rolled over and caught fire. The accident during an operation to stop a smuggling attempt on the border, which security forces thought could be cover for a terrorist attack, came very…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 200 African migrants in jail in Israel were released by order of the Supreme Court after a deal to deport them to another African country remained unsigned. Some 207 African migrants and asylum seekers were released over several hours on Sunday from the Saharonim Prison in southern Israel, where they…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish teen from Ethiopia who had been ordered to deposit thousands of dollars in order to participate in the final stages of the International Bible Quiz in Israel to guarantee that he would leave was granted residency status. While the residency status granted to Sintayehu Shafrao, 18, means that he can remain…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli army destroyed a Hamas terror tunnel that stretched from Gaza into southern Israel. The tunnel, which was constructed by Hamas after the Gaza War in 2014, was “ready for use,” the IDF spokesman said. It was also connected to a network of tunnels under Gaza, according to the IDF. The…
The first “appearance” on “Saturday Night Live” of Trump attorney Michael Cohen doubled as a “Meet the Parents” reunion. In the sketch, former SNL cast member Ben Stiller plays Cohen, “attorney at law — and also sometimes not at law.” Cohen’s offices were raided by the FBI this week, a fact the lawyer’s fictional counterpart…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered Israel’s “full support” for airstrikes on Syrian targets in retaliation for the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians in the rebel-held town of Douma. “A year ago, I declared Israel’s full support for President Trump’s decision to take a stand against the use…
The special counsel in the Russia probe has evidence that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague in 2016, refuting Cohen’s claim that he never visited the Czech capital and bolstering an intelligence dossier that first described the trip, McClatchy reported on Friday. Investigators for Special Counsel Robert Mueller have evidence Cohen…
Michael Cohen wasn’t just arranging payoffs for women who claimed to have had affairs with President Trump. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Cohen orchestrated a $1.6 million payoff to a former Playboy model impregnated by Elliott Broidy, a prominent Jewish Republican donor. “I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate,”…
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