(JTA) — The former principal of a Jewish girls’ school in Melbourne who fled Australia for Israel amid allegations that she sexually abused students has been arrested in Israel following a police undercover operation to investigate her claim that she is mentally unfit to appear in court. Malka Leifer, who is wanted on 74 charges…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House denied Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported claim that the United States and Israel are discussing the annexation of West Bank settlements. “Reports that the United States discussed with Israel an annexation plan for the West Bank are false,” White House spokesman Josh Raffel said in an email to…
Following the devastation of World War II, photographer Maria Austria captured the ruins of Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter. Some of her most viewed photographs, which captured the hiding place of Anne Frank, saved the house from demolition. The pictures are now subject of an exhibition at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. Born in 1915, Austria…
Members of the white supremacist group American Vanguard pasted their own posters over flyers advertising events for Black History Month at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported last week. American Vanguard played a large role in organizing the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last yeawr. The posters showed American…
For years, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam were the greatest U.S.-based supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Adelson even started a free newspaper, Israel Hayom, that became known for its pro-Netanyahu editorial line. But the ongoing criminal investigations of Netanyahu, one of which relates directly to his relationship with…
The infamous affair between then-president Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky took place in the days before Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. But that did not stop Lewinsky from becoming a target of cyberbullying. “There were gossip, news and entertainment websites replete with comment sections and emails which could be forwarded. Of course, it…
German Prime Minister Angela Merkel declined to comment on Saturday on Poland’s controversial bill that criminalizes statements attributing any fault for the Holocaust to Polish people or the Polish state, the Irish Times reported. “Without directly interfering in the legislation in Poland, I would like to say the following very clearly as German chancellor: We…
“Be fruitful and multiply” is the Torah’s first commandment, but it is one that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for one out of every ten couples to fulfill. While being Jewish does not mean an increased risk of infertility, the emotional difficulties can be exacerbated due to the centrality of family in traditional Judaism….
(JTA) — An unattended package left at a Pittsburgh-area Jewish Community Center was detonated by police. The small canvas bag was left on a ramp leading to the parking garage under the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill building on Sunday afternoon, the local CBS affiliate KDKA reported. The Pittsburgh Police Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit…
The office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a blockbuster lawsuit on Sunday against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, as well as Weinstein’s production company and his brother, alleging multiple violations of New York State civil rights laws, human rights laws and business laws. Weinstein was fired from his production company, The…
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, known for sending rabbis around the world to engage in outreach with Jewish communities, announced Sunday that it will soon plant a flag in the last remaining European capital without a rabbi — Reykjavik, Iceland. There are only between 100 and 250 Jews in the entire island nation (which itself only has…
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