Police and the FBI are investigating after several members of a synagogue in Raleigh, North Carolina, received threatening letters over the weekend, The News & Observer reported Monday. Members of Temple Beth Or’s board received a copy of the same letter that contained “threatening language” on Saturday, Robert Gleiberman, executive director of the synagogue, told…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli personal trainer drowned while attempting to save the life of a stranger struggling in the water off an Ashdod beach. On Sunday, Yohai Elkayam was strolling down Citadel Beach with a friend when they heard a woman calling for help and he jumped in to save her, Israel’s Channel 10 reported….
Two Iranians who collected information on Israeli and Jewish targets in the United States were charged Monday with spying for Tehran, The Times of Israel reported. Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 38, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were arrested Aug. 9. According to the indictment released by the…
New York City officials investigating allegations that yeshivas don’t provide enough secular education found a butcher shop on the ground floor of an address listed for a school that received nearly $10 million in federal funding — so they moved on, the New York Post reported. Officials crossed the United Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn off…
The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Central Council, in cooperation with Israel’s Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, has decided to mark July 19 as the “Day of Resistance against the Israeli Apartheid.” July 19th is the day the Knesset passed the controversial nation-state law. The decision to make the date an annual reminder of the struggle against the…
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals wrote anti-Semitic slogans on the fence of a Jewish cultural center in the Russian village of Lyubavichi, the cradle of the Chabad hassidic movement. The inscriptions, reading “Jews out of Russia, our land” and featuring the Baltic variant of the swastika, were spray-painted on the wall of the Hatzer Raboteinu Nesieinu…
(JTA) — A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp was deported to Germany overnight from the United States, where he had lived for decades. Jakiw Palij, 95, had lived Queens in the United States. He served as a guard at a Nazi forced labor camp during World War II. He may face prosecution in…
More than half a million Israelis have become eligible for gun permits under a change to the country’s firearms rules, for the purpose of improving responses to terror attacks, the Times of Israel reported. Hundreds of thousands of IDF infantry veterans will be eligible for gun permits, along with police officers who received equivalent training,…
President Trump told King Abdullah of Jordan that a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might lead to someone named Mohammed becoming prime minister of Israel, several sources briefed on the meeting told Axios. The White House Middle East policy team is still working on the Trump administration’s peace plan. Trump said when he first…
Federal authorities investigating whether President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen committed tax fraud are focusing on more than $20 million in loans collected by taxi businesses that he and his family own, the New York Times reported. The bank loans came from Sterling National Bank and the Melrose Credit Union, two New York financial…
(JTA) — A Tunisian Jew who has been in prison for over a month is being denied access to kosher food, his family said. Ilan Raccah, who is his 20s, has been held since July 10 at the prison of Mornaguia, a western suburb of the capital Tunis, the Kountrass news site reported Sunday. The…
