(JTA) — Moscow saw the opening of its first kosher sushi restaurant. The news site Jewish.ru reported on Tuesday of the opening in Moscow by the Kosher Gourmet kosher food supermarket of the new restaurant, Kosher Pirate. Located halfway between the Marina Roscha Synagogue and the nearby Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in northern Moscow,…
(JTA) – Half a century after the execution in Syria of the Israeli spy Eli Cohen, Israel’s intelligence services retrieved his wristwatch and returned it to his family, they said. The wristwatch was retrieved in a recent “special Mossad operation,” a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office Thursday said. During the annual memorial ceremony for Eli Cohen,…
(JTA) — An outspoken Jewish advocate of Israel was gunned down at his workplace in South Africa by unidentified assailants, who left behind his car, wallet and cellular phone. Sergio Kowensky, the chairman of the Likud South Africa Jewish group, was gunned down Tuesday in a southern suburb of Johannesburg at his air-conditioning firm, according…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer urged President Donald Trump to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, according to a report in The Washington Post. Schumer, a Jewish Democrat from New York, made the request in a phone call earlier this week, The Post reported. Garland, who also is Jewish, was…
(JTA) — The governor of Illinois has called on a neo-Nazi candidate for a Chicago-area congressional seat to drop out of the race. Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, denounced Arthur Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, but declined to endorse the opposing Democratic candidate. His response differed from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz…
President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, had a friendly Twitter exchange on Tuesday with a social media network popular with white supremacists, urging it to create an iPhone app he could use. “I’m not against @getongab. Just get me an iPhone app,” Brad Parscale said about the website Gab. “I am all for a…
(JTA) — A kosher restaurant in suburban Boston will be allowed to remain open even though one of its owners has been charged with illegally recording his customers as they used the bathroom. Owner Tze Chung, 63, who owns the popular Taam China restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, may have recorded customers up to 20 separate…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces has launched a campaign to prevent its soldiers from being tricked by hackers from terrorist groups attempting to install spyware on their cell phones. The IDF announced on Tuesday that it had launched Operation Broken Heart, so named because operatives pose on social media as attractive females to…
(JTA) — Neo-Nazis in Sweden assaulted two pro-Israel activists on Thursday outside a pavilion set up by the Israel-Sweden Friendship Association. Dozens of members of the Nordic Resistance Movement gathered around the pavilion on the island of Gotland, south of Stockholm, for what they said was a “protest demonstration,” the Aftonbladet newspaper reported. One of the…
The major defense contractor Northrup Grumman said Thursday that it is “taking immediate action” in response to a report claiming that one of its employees who possesses a security clearance from the Department of Defense is also a member of a violent white supremacist group. ProPublica and Frontline reported earlier Thursday that systems engineer Michael…
Israeli author and journalist Ari Shavit has spoken out about sexual assault allegations against him and his reckoning with his gender and power dynamics in a new interview with Haaretz. The Israeli newspaper, where Shavit wrote a column for nearly two decades, published a conversation between him and Dr. Orit Kamir, who drafted Israel’s law…
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