(JTA) — Colombia’s president Ivan Duque said the decision by his predecessor to recognize a Palestinian state days before he left office is “irreversible.” Outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos in an August 3 letter to the Palestinian representative in Colombia said he had decided to “recognize Palestine as a free, independent and sovereign state.” “Damage…
Updated September 3rd A group hoping to defend British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn from mounting public claims that he is an anti-Semite scheduled an event to defend him on September 18 — which happens to be Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The event, called “Corbyn, Antisemitism and Justice for Palestine,”…
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — who has for decades been criticized for anti-Semitism and homophobia — had a prominent place on the dais at Aretha Franklin’s star-studded funeral, sitting three seats away from former president Bill Clinton. Farrakhan wrote in The Final Call, the Nation of Islam’s newspaper, that Franklin had shown support…
A Florida Trump supporter who made national headlines for hosting a pro-Israel gala at Mar-a-Lago after the president’s divisive statements on the 2017 Charlottesville protests had over $10,000 in donations returned by the super PAC supporting gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis — the only funds the group has returned so far this year, public records show….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the United States announcement that it would halt all funding to the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians a “welcome and important change.” Netanyahu made the statement on Sunday morning, more than a day after U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement that:…
(JTA) — Rabbi Rachel Cowan, a pioneer in the Jewish healing movement who converted to Judaism, has died. Cowan died on Friday of brain cancer at her home in Manhattan at the age of 77. She was diagnosed two years ago with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, the same cancer that Sen. John…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In his eulogy for his close friend John McCain, Joe Lieberman recalled McCain’s accommodation of Lieberman’s Jewish observance and his love of Jerusalem. Lieberman, the former senator from Connecticut, recalled traveling around the world with McCain, the Arizona Republican senator who died last week, together with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; the three…
Rabbi Rachel Cowan has died after a battle with cancer. Here’s how we profiled the remarkable “mother of Jewish healing” last year. Rabbi Rachel Cowan moves slowly these days. Her energy lags. She can’t read like she used to. She’s lost most of her eyesight, and sometimes she bumps into things as she makes her…
(JTA) — The executive director of Breaking the Silence was detained by Israeli Border Police Friday along with two other activists. The arrested activists — Avner Gvaryahu, the group’s executive director; Achiya Shatz, its communications director; and human rights attorney Michael Sfard — were detained next to a settlement outpost in the southern West Bank,…
(JTA) – Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been named a suspect along with her husband in an investigation into alleged corruption. On Thursday, a police representative to a Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court judge confirmed that Sara Netanyahu is a suspect in the affair known as Case 4000. The prime minister was…
MEDFORD, Mass. (JTA) — Pro-Israel students at Tufts University say a new course on Palestine is one-sided and demonizes Israel, and violates the university’s own policies on taking political stances. The course, taught by Thomas Abowd, a faculty member in the American Studies program, was first reported by Jewish News Syndicate. The JNS story sparked…
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