(JTA) — Jared Moskowitz is a member of Florida’s House of Representatives. After the shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, in Moskowitz’s district, that left 17 dead, the Jewish Democrat led efforts to pass gun reform in his state. The compromise bill raises the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18…
(JTA) — The Knesset passed in a first reading draft legislation that would expose to legal action in Israel Jewish non-citizens who refuse to grant their wives a divorce. Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, on Wednesday celebrated as “extremely significant” the Knesset’s passing last week in a first reading of an…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Air India will begin direct flights to Tel Aviv, flying over Saudi airspace. The flights for the Indian national carrier will begin on Thursday, and take about 7 hours, according to the airline, AFP reported. Flying through Saudi airspace knocks more than two hours off the time of the flight. El Al,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A civilian Israeli security guard was stabbed and seriously injured in a terror attack in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The victim, reported to be in his 30s, was stabbed several times in his upper body and is in critical condition in Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem. He…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli military destroyed two Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza. One of the border-crossing tunnels, bombed early Sunday morning, was a tunnel that had been built prior to the 2014 Gaza war, and was previously only partially destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces during the Gaza war. Workers for the Hamas terror…
Gandhi, Obama, Mandela and — Hitler? Those are some of the faces of “skillful visionaries” on a children’s book called “Leaders” published by Pegasus Books, an imprint of B. Jain’s publishing house in India. The sales pitch runs: “In the time that feels devoid of great leadership, we have found men and women who will…
(JTA) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used language that some critics have said has anti-Semitic undertones at a rally three weeks before he seeks re-election for a third term. Speaking Thursday in Budapest, Orban harshly criticized proponents of immigration. He also called out George Soros, the Hungary-born Jewish financier and philanthropist, and those who…
(JTA) — National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster invoked the post-Holocaust phrase “Never Again” in calling for U.S. action in Syria. Speaking Thursday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., McMaster said the United States would not stand by during the deadly conflict in Syria, The Wall Street Journal reported. “We cannot…
A Palestinian motorist killed two Israelis and injured at least one other person in the occupied West Bank on Friday in what witnesses described as a deliberate ramming attack but may have been an accident, Israel’s Army Radio said. The incident took place near the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan, west of the Palestinian town…
RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Police arrested a man for displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews at the annual march by local veterans of two SS divisions that made up the Latvian Legion during World War II. The man was arrested Friday morning on the margins of the annual march of the Remembrance Day of…
(JTA) — The American toy company that created the Barbie doll announced a new addition to the line in the image of Iris Apfel as an homage to the 96-year-old Jewish fashion guru. The Apfel effigy by the maker of what is perhaps the world’s best-known line of dolls wears the same striking green Gucci suit…
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