The umbrella group of Conservative Judaism announced Wednesday that its leader will be stepping down from his position. Rabbi Steven Wernick, who has served as CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism since 2009, will not seek a renewal of his contract when it expires in 2019, the movement announced on Wednesday. “We are…
(JTA) — A Texas state representative opposed to gun control posted a meme on her Facebook page suggesting that gun control led to the deaths of children in the Holocaust. Valoree Swanson, who describes herself as a Conservative Republican on her personal Facebook page, deleted the image from her Valoree Swanson for Texas Facebook page,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin will resign soon, President Trump said on Wednesday, adding that he will nominate his personal physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, to succeed him. White House officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Shulkin had become a distraction due to a constant wave of speculation about his future. They…
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – The Israeli military has deployed more than 100 sharpshooters on the Gaza border ahead of a planned mass Palestinian demonstration, Israel’s top general said in an interview published on Wednesday. Organizers said they expect thousands in Gaza, including entire families, to answer their call to gather in tent cities in five locations…
(JTA) — President Trump issued a proclamation in honor of Education and Sharing Day, marking the anniversary of the birth of the last Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Trump met Monday in the Oval Office with a delegation of rabbis from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The rabbis presented two gifts to the president: a silver…
El Al, the Israeli national airline, issued a petition to the country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday asking it to stop Air India’s new flight route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv. The Air India flight is the first Israel-bound route that Saudi Arabia has allowed to use its airspace. El Al says that the new…
PARIS (JTA) — At least 10,000 people participated in a memorial march in Paris for an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was burned and found dead with 11 stab wounds. Many of the marchers Wednesday were Jews, and some wore Israeli flags at the march for Mireille Knoll, who was found in her apartment last Friday….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli military investigation determined that a Palestinian parapalegic was not killed by Israel Defense Forces troops attempting to quell a riot near the Gaza border fence. Palestinian health officials said Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, 29, was shot in the head while demonstrating in Gaza in December, during protests against President Trump’s recognition…
(JTA) — A London-area Jewish burial society has taken the local coroner to the country’s High Court over her burial policy. The Adath Yisrael Burial Society took Mary Hassell, the senior coroner at the St. Pancras Coroner’s Office in central London, to the court for a judicial review over her policy that of not prioritizing…
(JTA) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA) – Sitting on a couch near his locker at the Houston Astros’ spring training facility here in mid-March, Alex Bregman is reflecting about an encounter his father had at the World Series last fall. It was in Los Angeles, between innings of the opening game. Sam Bregman was headed…
President Donald Trump — a man not known for his quietude — has left the head of Veterans Affairs, Larry Shulkin, in the dark as rumors swirl about Trump’s plan to fire him, the New York Times reported. Over the weekend, Trump reportedly told friends he planned to fire Shulkin, who is the only holdover…
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