JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces struck a Hamas target in the southern Gaza Strip with tank fire. The attack early on Sunday morning was in response to a bomb placed near the border fence between Israel and Gaza, the IDF said in a statement. Three Gazans were killed in the attack, according to…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ doctor said the Palestinian leader will not leave the hospital despite announcing that he would be discharged. Abbas has been in the hospital since early last week, the third time he was hospitalized since undergoing ear surgery earlier this month. He reportedly had a high fever when…
Dozens of Palestinians demonstrating at the Gaza border were injured by Israeli gunfire and tear gas on Friday, as the latest round of protests drew several thousand participants to the frontier. Dubbed the March of Return, the protests were launched on March 30 to demand the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants…
Hedge fund founder Murray Huberfeld pled guilty to conspiracy charges on Friday in a bribery case that was part of a web of interconnected corruption scandals that swept New York City politics and parts of the Orthodox Jewish community two years ago. Through his guilty plea, Huberfeld admitted to having disguised a $60,000 payment to…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The top Democrats on the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees want an Israeli spy firm to share data on its alleged campaign against Obama administration officials associated with the Iran nuclear deal. “We are writing to request documents relating to reports that Black Cube conducted a ‘dirty ops’ campaign against former Obama…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged to take action on naming an anti-Semitism monitor. “You have my word, we’ll move on that,” Pompeo said Thursday during his appearance testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Pompeo had been pressed on the issue by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who helped…
(JTA) — In his historic visit to Israel, Britain’s Prince William will come to Jerusalem in the end of June, the British Royal Family said. The announcement Friday about the visit sometime between June 24 and 28 was the first confirmation that Prince William, whose official title is the Duke of Cambridge, will visit the…
The office of Aaron Schlossberg, the New York attorney who received a barrage of social media hate after his racist rant was posted online, received a mysterious envelope filled with white powder Thursday, the New York Daily News reported. The letter, addressed to Schlossberg, arrived at his Madison Avenue offices around 3:30 p.m. When two…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers are lining up behind a bill that would define anti-Semitism. The measure introduced Thursday by Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., who is Jewish, and Pete Roskam, R-Ill., a leader on pro-Israel issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, at first looks like a bipartisan slam dunk. The principal target…
(JTA) — Amid reports of widespread fear among Belgian Jews of being attacked by anti-Semites, two pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a concert there by an American orchestra bound for a performance in Israel and a Jewish pianist. The concert Thursday by Hélène Grimaud, a well-known French pianist of Jewish ancestry, had to be paused as security…
(JTA) — A private Israeli intelligence-gathering firm collected potentially damaging information on Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, according to a report in Haaretz. The firm, Israel Cyber Shield, was gathering the intelligence for Act.IL, a pro-Israel advocacy organization, according to the report published Thursday. The goal was to use the information to persuade U.S. colleges not to…
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