A Norwegian politician has nominated the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that targets Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza for a Nobel Peace prize, the Middle East Monitor reported. Bjørnar Moxness, a member of Norway’s Parliament, made the formal nomination, with support from a coalition of left-wing Norwegian political parties. In a…
A historically Jewish fraternity at Cornell University was put on probation for two years after an investigation determined that members competed to have sex with the most women — with the tiebreaker going to the brother who slept with the person weighing the most. “The contest was referred to as a ‘pig roast,’” Cornell’s Office…
With the opening ceremony Friday, the world’s attention will be turning toward South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Hundreds of athletes will be competing for 102 medals across the biathlon, bobsled, snowboarding and more. Here is a rundown of a few Jewish athletes to watch at this year’s games. Jared Goldberg, a 26-year-old skier,…
Corrected 3:21pm Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, attended his first AIPAC Policy Conference when he was in high school. Since then, he has risen in the ranks of Breitbart News, a website that once prided itself on being “the platform for the ‘alt-right,’” a label the publication is now pushing back against….
MONTREAL (JTA) — A McGill University internal investigation absolved students involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel of outright anti-Semitism on campus but decried Jew hatred, triggering mixed reactions from the Jewish community. The report written by retired McGill ombudsman Spencer Boudreau, which was released on Tuesday, asserted that anti-Semitism played no…
(JTA) — The letter Cy Golanski wrote to his grandmother last summer was short, to the point and a little different from the typical note home from sleepaway camp. “The food here is so good. Please ask my mom when the cookbook is coming out,” the 11-year-old wrote, adding a request that his grandmother make the…
NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking the return by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece that a German Jewish businessman was allegedly forced to sell at a low price to fund an escape from the Nazis and fascism. U.S. District Judge…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Syrian military accused Israel of firing on its positions near Damascus, calling it a “new Israeli aggression.” “This morning, Israeli warplanes fired several missiles from Lebanese airspace on one of our military positions in the Damascus countryside,” Syria’s army said in a statement broadcast on state media. “Our air defense systems…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rabbi who teaches at a pre-military yeshiva in the West Bank told students that women are “weak minded” and “just babble.” Rabbi Yosef Kelner also said women have a “limited capacity” for spirituality in the footage broadcast Tuesday by Hadashot news taken at a class on marriage and family. The class…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli security guard was stabbed and wounded and his Palestinian assailant killed at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Karmei Tzur. The stabber, identified by the Palestinian Maan news agency as 19-year-old Hamza Zamareh from the nearby Palestinian village of Halhul, approached the entrance of the settlement located in…
(JTA) — In a deeply divided nation that is still reeling from a toxic presidential election last spring, as well as jihadist and racist attacks, Mennel Ibtissem’s performances offered a rare vision of hope. The blue-eyed Muslim woman sang Arabic and French-language renditions of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on national television in France while wearing a…
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