JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his “sorrow” over the passing of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who died of an unspecified illness on Saturday. He was 80 years old. Annan’s politics sometimes diverged sharply with those of Israel’s leaders. However, he was remembered by Israelis as a staunch proponent of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis have allegedly attacked several Palestinian cars in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli woman in a suspected hit-and-run incident near the West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad last week. Hava Roizen died after being struck by a car driven by a Palestinian taxi driver who subsequently turned himself over to…
Updated 5:00 p.m. A speechwriter for President Trump no longer works at the White House after CNN reported Sunday that he had attended a conference popular with white nationalists. CNN revealed that speechwriter Darren Beattie had been listed as speaking at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference, named after the legendary early 20th-century journalist whose…
An elected official in the Orlando area is facing calls to resign after he wrote a post on Facebook questioning whether Muslims add anything to society. “Very simple question,” Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg wrote on Saturday. “Name just ONE society in the developed world that has benefited in ANY WAY from the introduction…
The Justice Department is suing a friend and former business partner of Ivanka Trump for his alleged role in defrauding the federal government out of millions of dollars in tax liabilities on his father’s estate, Politico reported Friday. The suit follows a Politico investigation of New York businessman Moshe Lax’s alleged financial crimes, and the…
(JTA) — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed back against criticisms that he has been soft on yeshivas that have illegally declined to offer their students secular studies. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, de Blasio said that city officials had “engaged in a dialogue with a number of schools” that was “very productive.” Likely…
(JTA) — A Republican candidate for governor in California said he’d stop comparing wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles to the experience of Holocaust survivors. John Cox had come under fire for telling a story Wednesday about a Holocaust survivor who complained about the long lines when the two met at a DMV in…
(JTA) — Police arrested two suspects in connection with the painting of a swastika on a synagogue in Indiana. U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler, the FBI and the Police Department of the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel announced on Thursday charges against 20-year-old Nolan Brewer and a co-conspirator who is in custody but was not named. The…
More than 40 leaders of national Jewish organizations will meet in San Diego, California, on Tuesday to cross the border into Mexico to witness the migrant crisis. Over two days in Tijuana, the participants will visit Instituto Madre Asunta, among other detainment sites. They’ll meet with American and Mexican government officials, immigration attorneys, humanitarian workers,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The phones of Israeli politicians across the political spectrum began ringing off the hook this weekend after a list of their private numbers was published online. President Reuven Rivlin, Ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked and opposition leader Tzipi Livni were among those whose numbers were on the list, which rapidly spread…
Eight years worth of letters and packages are being delivered to Palestinians in the West Bank, the New York Times reported. The mail, which has been held in Jordan, began being released to the Palestinian Authority on Monday, according to a statement from Palestinian officials. Some of it was badly damaged in the delay. Israel…
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