MOSCOW (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made firm statements about Iran before leaving for Russia to discuss the Islamic Republic with one of its key allies, President Vladimir Putin. In Russia, Netanyahu will discuss with Putin “Iran’s effort to turn Lebanon into one giant missile site, a site for precision missiles against the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Poland will open an “immediate dialogue” over legislation that would criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, spoke on Sunday evening by phone and “agreed that teams from the two countries would open an immediate dialogue in…
(JTA) — Protesters gathered outside of an Arab-style bakery and restaurant in Oakland, California to protest a life-size mural in the shop featuring convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh. Sunday’s vigil also protested a book reading and signing by Sunaina Maira, an Asian-American studies professor at the University of California, Davis of her new book about…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbi of the Western Wall sent a letter of apology to the editor of the Israeli business daily Globes for the discriminatory treatment of one of its reporters during Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the site last week. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, writing to Globes editor-in-chief Naama Sikuler, said “I want…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has long topped the list of Justice Department officials whom President Trump accuses of being responsible for the prolonged probe into his campaign’s possible ties with Russia during the 2016 election campaign. Now, Rosenstein is also the focus of what is known as the ‘secret memo’ – a document put…
Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan Greenblatt called on former president Barack Obama to again denounce Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, following the release of a photo taken of the two of them together over a decade ago. Obama denounced Farrakhan in 2008, when the anti-Semitic leader endorsed Obama’s presidential run. “Over his career,…
A 24-hour Twitter spat between Trump’s daughter Ivanka and top DC chef Jose Andres ended with Andres walking back his claims and offering Ivanka an olive branch. The storm broke out after Andres, a Spanish-born successful chef who has been a top critic of President Trump and his immigration policies, was not allowed into a…
(JTA) — A New Jersey man who sought a kidney by wearing a T-shirt at Disney World with the request and his cell phone number received a donation from a stranger. Robert Leibowitz wore a T-shirt every day during a week-long vacation at Disney World last summer that read: “In Need of Kidney. O Positive,”…
(JTA) — Toronto police said they believe billionaire philanthropist Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, were murdered in their Toronto home. The conclusion comes six weeks after the couple was found dead near their indoor pool and a week after private investigators announced that the couple was murdered. Police initially theorized that the deaths were a murder-suicide,…
A tweet sent by Vice President Mike Pence on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was sharply criticized by some for its perceived Christian imagery. A few days ago, Karen & I paid our respects at Yad Vashem to honor the 6 million Jewish martyrs of the Holocaust who 3 years after walking beneath the shadow of…
Samuel Woodward, the high school classmate accused of murdering Blaze Bernstein, was an avowed member of the American neo-Nazi group “Atomwaffen Division,” according to a new report by ProPublica. The group, whose name is German for “Atomic Weapons Division,” is “an armed Fascist group with the ultimate aim of overthrowing the U.S. government through the…
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