JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu announced that he is in Israel a year after he disappeared from his home in southeast Nigeria. Kanu has been campaigning for an independent state called Biafra in south-eastern Nigeria. A video live-streamed on Friday on social media showed him praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier was stabbed by a Palestinian assailant near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The soldier was lightly injured in the Monday morning attack. “After being stabbed, the soldier, along with other troops nearby, shot and neutralized the terrorist, preventing him from stabbing anyone else,” the IDF said. The…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jordan’s King Abdullah told Israel he has decided to not renew parts of their 1994 peace treaty. Abdullah said Sunday he would not renew two of the treaty’s annexes, that allowed Israel to lease two border areas from the Jordanians. Israel’s 25-year lease on the areas – Baqura and Ghamr – is…
(JTA) — A Jewish mother in North Texas said her child’s school asked for proof that her daughter is Jewish in order to excuse her for Yom Kippur. Lauren Gordon told local CBS affiliate CBS 11 Dallas Fort Worth on Thursday that when she asked last month for her daughter’s absence from school on Yom…
(JTA) — If you read the “Harry Potter” series in Hebrew you may have noticed a curious Jewish fact: Though Sirius Black isn’t Jewish, the character sings a Hanukkah song in one scene. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hebrew translator Gili Bar Hillel reveals some behind-the-scenes tidbits about her “Harry Potter” translation process. In…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two weeks after he disappeared, Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Washington Post columnist, is getting his reputation run through a wringer, and some pro-Israel voices are joining the pile-on. Even as gruesome allegations emerge that he was tortured, murdered and dismembered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, some Israel supporters have joined other…
A Democratic congressman suggested Friday on CNN that Jared Kushner may have orchestrated the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Daily Beast reported. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said — without citing evidence — that Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, might have provided Saudi Crown…
The former president of Temple University’s now-suspended Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity was ordered for the second time to stand trial for alleged sexual assault, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. One of Ari Goldstein’s accusers testified against him on Thursday. The 21-year-old will face trial Nov. 1 on charges of rape, sexual assault, unlawful restraint and involuntary…
Facebook took down a video posted to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s account that compared Jews to termites, calling it “Tier 1 hate speech,” The Wrap reported. “The video was taken down because it violates our hate speech policies,” a Facebook representative told The Wrap. In response to critics calling him an anti-Semite, Farrakhan,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee reemphasized its support for a two-state solution as the Trump administration nears completion of a peace proposal that might stop short of recommending the establishment of a Palestinian state. “AIPAC remains fully supportive of direct negotiations leading to a two-state solution — a Jewish state of…
President Trump applauded a congressman at a rally Thursday for assaulting a reporter last year, the Washington Post reported. Trump was speaking to a crowd in Montana, where Rep. Greg Gianforte body-slammed Jewish journalist Ben Jacobs in May 2017, just days before a special election race. The president mentioned Gianforte and cracked a joke: “By…
