WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Taylor Force Act, which would slash funding to the Palestinians until the Palestinian Authority stops payments to Palestinians killed or arrested during attacks on Israelis, will likely pass this week. Jewish Insider reported Wednesday that the bill would be added in the Senate to a massive omnibus spending bill that must…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ben Cardin, the Democratic senator from Maryland who is among the closest in his party to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, will speak at the annual conference of its liberal rival, J Street. Cardin, who is Jewish, was one of just four Democrats in the Senate who voted in 2015 against…
(JTA) — Tel Aviv University scientists will collaborate with their counterparts at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley on research in medical and information technology. The initiative is being funded with a five-year, $10 million grant from the Koret Foundation, which funds Bay Area organizations and initiatives, and works to support the U.S.-Israel…
Two murals at the University of Iowa celebrating diversity were graffitied with Nazi symbols, local station WQAD reported Wednesday. The first incident was reported last week and the second on Sunday, according to police. These are not the first incidences of Nazi or far-right activity on campus. White supremacist fliers were distributed in an Iowa…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teen arrested in part for slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers standing guard in a West Bank Palestinian village, will spend eight months in prison under a plea deal. The teen has spent the last four months in prison after being arrested in the middle of the night at…
(JTA) — An arts festival focusing on femininity and gender identity in Oslo, Norway rejected the participation of six Israeli choreographers, saying Israel uses culture to “whitewash” its treatment of the Palestinians. The six Israeli artists who applied to participate in the “Feminine Tripper” festival — Eden Wiseman, Roni Rotem, Nitzan Lederman, Maayan Cohen Marciano,…
Austria’s foreign ministry has recalled an employee of its embassy in Israel after an Austrian weekly said he posted a picture of himself on social media wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of a Nazi tank division. The Falter weekly published a screenshot of the attache’s Facebook page which shows him in a green shirt…
If residents of the Bay Area were looking for an excuse to visit Israel, United Airlines may have just given them one. Starting in May, United will use ER 777-300 airliners with 366 seats on flights from San Francisco International Airport to Ben-Gurion International Airport, instead the 219 seats per flight at present. This will…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak today about the growing controversy surrounding the social network platform’s alleged leak of over 50 million users’ personal data, Axios reported. Neither Zuckerberg or Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg had spoken publicly about the scandal as of Wednesday morning. The company announced on Friday that it was suspending Cambridge…
(JTA) — The more that American Jews and American Muslims interact with each other, the more likely they are to see the two faiths as more similar than different, a comprehensive study of Muslim-Jewish relations in America has found. Fifty-four percent of Jews and 65 percent of Muslims surveyed in a poll for the Foundation…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — J.B. Pritzker, the scion of a hotel family with deep Jewish community ties, handily bested his opponents in a Democratic primary and will face off in Illinois’ race for governor against incumbent Bruce Rauner, who is seen as vulnerable. Pritzker took a substantial lead in what had been depicted as a close…
סאָװעטיש־ייִדיש איז געװען אַ ראַדיקאַלער עקספּערימענט, װאָס פֿאַרנעמט אַ װיכטיקן פּלאַץ אױף דער װעלטמאַפּע פֿון ייִדישער קולטור
