GAZA (Reuters) – A Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip said on Friday it had killed a relative they said had helped Israel track down and kill three senior Hamas militants, including one of the man’s own kinsmen. In a statement, the family of Ahmed Barhoum said it had shot him in the city of…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Police in the Netherlands are investigating vandalism at a synagogue and a hospice for people dying of terminal diseases. The incident at the Immanuel Hospice occurred on Jan. 2, the AT5 television channel reported Wednesday. A man wearing a sports jacket dislodged and stole two security cameras in the early hours of…
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah criticized the Lebanese government on Friday for allowing cinemas to screen Steven Spielberg’s film “The Post” despite calls for a ban because of the director’s links to Israel. The movie premiered in Beirut this week after Lebanon’s interior minister ruled against any ban. Activists in Lebanon had campaigned against the film…
A Muslim beauty blogger turned down an award from the makeup firm Revlon over its marketing ties to the Israeli actress Gal Gadot, Yahoo reported. The blogger, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, cited the ongoing imprisonment of 16-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, who is pending trial after allegedly slapping an Israeli soldier who had entered her yard in…
Ross Levinsohn, CEO and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has been followed for two decades by allegations of sexual harassment and fostering sexually inappropriate work cultures, NPR reported Thursday. The report, based on dozens of interviews with former colleagues and court records from sexual harassment suits, details a pattern of Levinsohn objectifying women he…
Two companies that focus on supporting Jewish couples have partnered to offer genetic screening tests to newlyweds with at least one Jewish partner, eJewish Philanthropy reported. JScreen is a not-for-profit that provides health counseling and genetic screening tests for Jews. Honeymoon Israel provides trips to Israel for newlywed couples with at least one Jewish partner….
Moshe Holtzberg was an infant when Pakistani terrorists shot his parents and four other Jews in a Mumbai Jewish community center. Now, at nine years old, he’s returned to Mumbai to dedicate the space as a “living memorial” to his parents, the Times of Israel reported. Surrounded by parents and dignitaries — and the nanny…
Among the many issues that were raised when Donald Trump chose the controversial Sebastian Gorka to serve as his counterterrorism adviser, none had related to an issue of public record in his ancestral homeland of Hungary. According to a report on Buzzfeed, quoting the Hungarian website 444, back in September 2016 Hungarian police issued an…
Just over half of all adults in the United Kingdom pray, even those who say they’re not religious, a new poll shows. One in five adults who say they’re not religious still pray — and half of those say they think God hears their prayers. A poll done by Christian aid agency, Tearfund, found that…
Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi website publisher who called for an online “troll storm” against a Jewish woman in Montana, is arguing in court that the barrage of phone calls and anti-Semitic messages were not a threat — and she could simply have ignored them. Many of the messagers were anti-Semitic and Holocaust-related. Anglin is also…
Woody Allen’s adopted daughter gave a tearful television interview on Thursday, giving details of an alleged molestation by the filmmaker more than 25 years ago. In her first television interview, Dylan Farrow told the CBS show “This Morning” that Allen touched her private parts when she was 7 years old. “I loved my father. I…
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