(JTA) — Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef and writer who hosted popular food and travel shows on CNN, did not have narcotics in his body when he died. Bourdain’s death earlier this month at age 61 was ruled a suicide by hanging by French police, after his body was found in a hotel bathroom in…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court, winding down its nine-month term, will issue rulings this week in its few remaining cases including a major one on the legality of President Donald Trump’s ban on people from five Muslim-majority nations entering the country. The nine justices are due to decide other politically sensitive cases on whether…
Channeling the skills that he honed over seasons of “The Apprentice” (though not the skills of civil debate), President Donald Trump went to Nevada to stump for Republican senate candidate Dean Heller. Brushing off the immigration furor that has surrounded his administration for the past week, he chose to tease and play with the crowd…
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has released an edited transcript and audio recording of the interview he conducted with former ABC star Roseanne Barr shortly after the cancellation of her series “Roseanne.” In the interview, Barr claims that she “never would have wittingly called any black person…a monkey.” “It’s really hard to say this but, I didn’t…
(JTA) — British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, under fire for having anti-Israel views born out of anti-Semitism, said in a tweet that a Labour-led government would recognize Palestine as a state. Corbyn, on a tour of camps in Jordan for Syrian and Palestinian refugees as part of his first international trip outside of Europe…
In response to the fire kites, fire condoms and fire balloons that have been sent from Gaza to burn Israeli property in the past week, the Israeli military have carried out five strikes in 24 hours on Palestinians in Gaza. According to Haaretz, the IDF said the strikes were on Hamas targets in Gaza and…
(JTA) — The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors unanimously approved Israel’s opposition leader Isaac Herzog to replace Natan Sharansky as its head. The board voted on the appointment Sunday June 24, accepting the nomination of the Leadership Nominating Committee, composed of the leaders of The Jewish Agency’s constituent organizations – the Jewish Federations…
(JTA) — Three Israeli soldiers on foot patrol were wounded after being hit by a car with Palestinian license plates. The Israel Defense Forces said that the incident, which occurred on Saturday night outside the Palestinian village of Husan near the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, was a suspected car-ramming attack. The car drove…
(JTA) — Bulgaria will open an honorary consulate in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly Cabinet meeting that he spoke the previous night with his counterpart, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who informed him of the decision. Borisov visited Israel earlier this month, meeting with Netanyahu and Israeli President Reuven…
(JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces fired a Patriot missile at an unmanned drone that approached Israeli airspace from Syria. The IDF was unable to verify whether the drone was hit. It retreated from the border, the IDF said. A commander in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad said the unmanned aerial vehicle…
The career advice department at the University of Exeter on the south west coast of England sent out an inspirational quote in a mass email. One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. But, as local newspaper the Falmouth Packet reports, the inspiration they are drawing on comes from Nazi…
