(JTA) — Two Jewish leaders denounced a Boston Globe editorial cartoon that they said uses a caricature of Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson with anti-Semitic tropes. The cartoon that appeared Friday was titled “Murder on the tax-cut express” and shows Adelson aboard a train conducted by President Donald Trump labeled as riding in the section for…
(JTA) — A Polish court gave a suspended one-year sentence to an American teenager for scratching his name on a barracks wall at Auschwitz. Polish police arrested the yeshiva student, 17, in July after he was caught by a guide while etching his name into the interior wall, according to reports. The teen also was…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Bedouin men from the Negev were arrested for involvement in the stabbing death of an Israeli soldier in the southern city of Arad. The men were arrested Friday night, a day after Ron Yitzhak Kukia, 19, of Tel Aviv, was stabbed while waiting for a bus. The arrest was cleared for publication…
(JTA) — Jared Kushner did not disclose on government filings his position as a director of a family foundation that funded projects in West Bank settlements. Kushner’s position as co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, when the foundation donated at least $38,000 to the building of a Jewish seminary…
Younger evangelical Christians are less likely to support Israel than their older co-religionists, a new survey has found. The survey found still showed high levels of support for Israel among evangalicals, but clearly indicated a generational shift in which younger evangelicals are less inclined to be pro-Israel than their parents and grandparents. According to the…
(JTA) — Vandals stripped away inscriptions on the Holocaust Memorial in Athens, which commemorates the more than 60,000 Greek Jews killed during World War II. The attack on the memorial occurred on Saturday, according to the English-language Greek Reporter. Inscriptions engraved on a plaque written by famous Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel especially for…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was shot by an Israeli civilian during clashes between Palestinians and right-wing activists near the site of an attack several days earlier on a group of Jewish children hiking in the West Bank. On Monday, dozens of Palestinians reportedly threw rocks at the group of activists from Otzma Yehudit,…
(JTA) — A teacher at a Jewish nursery school in suburban London who said she was fired for living with her boyfriend won her case of religious and sexual discrimination. Zelda de Groen, 24, sued the Gan Menachem Nursery in Hendon after losing her job in July 2016. She had worked there for four years….
Could the source of trouble now shaking Trump’s inner circle be the Israeli ambassador to the United States? On Friday, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI on two conversations he had with Russia’s ambassador to Washington Sergey Kislyak. In one of them, Flynn asked the Russians to help…
(JTA) — An interfaith initiative based in Jerusalem has created international ethics guidelines for religious leaders to insure proper conduct with their congregants. The “Ten Guidelines” were announced last week in Jerusalem by the International Conference of the Israeli organization Tahel, Israel’s Crisis Center for Religious Women and Children. The new initiative calls upon religious…
A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis have issued a letter urging community members to boycott JW3, the four-year-old Jewish community center in London. The letter, signed by 25 rabbis, says that some programs at JW3 “promote a way of life which is in total contradiction to Orthodox Judaism and halachah [Jewish law].” It adds that “members…
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