(JTA) — Amir Peretz, an Israeli former defense minister, was verbally accosted by a Moroccan lawmaker during a visit in Rabat, where an Israeli Druze lawmaker came to Peretz’s defense in Arabic. The unusual incident happened Sunday at the Parliament of Morocco, which Peretz, a Morocco-born Israeli lawmaker for the Zionsit Union party, was visiting…
SYDNEY (JTA) — A Jewish member of the Australian government advertised with taxpayer money perceived examples of anti-Israel bias in the media. Michael Danby paid The Australian Jewish News to publish two half-page ads pointing out treatment differences on two stories reported by the Jerusalem correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sophie McNeill. Danby’s gripe,…
American economist Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize for his contributions in the field of behavioral economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. “In total, Richard Thaler’s contributions have built a bridge between the economic and psychological analyzes of individual decision-making,” the award-giving body said on announcing the 9 million…
An influential daily newspaper in Brazil apologized for publishing a crosswords puzzle that identified “Palestine” as a “territory that suffers Israeli occupation and bombings.” Estado de S. Paulo’s readers received the crosswords puzzle in the Oct. 1 edition. “We apologize for the wrong way the question about Israel and Palestine was addressed,” the newspaper’s editor…
(JTA) — The movie production firm started by Harvey Weinstein fired him following sexual harassment allegations by several women, including Hollywood actress Ashley Judd. The Weinstein Company’s directors announced the co-founder’s dismissal Sunday, citing “new information about misconduct” by Weinstein’s who founded the firm in 2005. Last week, the New York Times published an article alleging…
New students at one of Great Britain’s most elite universities were upset after they received a welcome packet that had a picture of the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp on the cover. Students at Cambridge University’s Emmanuel College received the packets upon moving in. The packets featured information about a welcome service at the…
Events in Jerusalem’s popular Machaneh Yehudah Market to celebrate World Space Week were cancelled by the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space after protests from an ultra-Orthodox city councilman, who was upset that some of the venues were not certified kosher. Scientists and professors had been scheduled to lead lectures, stargazing and virtual-reality experiences…
A sukkah was destroyed at Kansas State University in what officials believe was an act of anti-Semitic vandalism. The sukkah had been erected on Wednesday by the university’s Department of Housing and Dining. But on Friday night, the structure had been completely demolished, with the pieces left on the ground around the car of the…
(JTA) — White nationalist leader Richard Spencer led a second torchlight march in Charlottesville, Virginia. The march on Saturday included several dozen torch-bearing white nationalists who marched through Emancipation Park to the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which the city is working to remove, along with the statues of other Confederate leaders. Spencer…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza struck southern Israel. No injuries were reported in the Sunday evening attack, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. The Code Red warning siren sounded in southern Israeli cities and towns near the border with Gaza at about 9 p.m. prior to the rocket landing in an open…
JORDAN RIVER, West Bank (Reuters) – Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian women trekked through a biblical desert landscape on Sunday, converging on the shores of the Jordan River in a march for peace. The women, many of them dressed in white, descended through the arid hills leading to the river, where they erected a “peace…
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