WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration is encouraging the Palestinian Authority to assume control of the Gaza Strip and leaving the door open for a role by Hamas in the subsequent Palestinian government. Palestinian Authority government officials returned this week to the Gaza Strip, the first en masse visit — by Cabinet and security officials…
Two Jewish scientists awarded the Nobel prize on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves said they hoped the attention would make Americans less inclined to dismiss scientific consensus in favor of politics. That reflects skepticism among the broader American public, where a growing number of people reject scientific…
Svetlana Travis Zakharova, the Russian escort who was accused of extorting $400,000 from Eliot Spitzer, pled guilty to a lesser charge in Manhattan court on Monday and was sentenced to 90 days in prison. Zakharova was arrested last year and charged with grand larceny and extortion after the ex-New York governor told authorities she tried…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s White House e-mail blues deepened on Monday after revelations that the couple used a third private account to transact official government business. “They’ve pretty much been using it since they got here,” an unidentified source told Politico about a shared account that Kushner and Trump used for travel plans, scheduling…
A former FBI agent is heading up a cold case team more than 70 years after Nazi occupation police stormed the secret Amsterdam canal house annex where Anne Frank was hiding and sent her to her death in a concentration camp. Suspicions that someone betrayed the Frank family are not new, but the latest attempt…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a meeting in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, said that the Palestinians are reconciling “at the expense of our existence. He was referring to a meeting on Tuesday in Gaza of the Palestinian Authority cabinet in Ramallah, led by PA Prime Minister Rami…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family home of the Palestinian man who killed three security officers in a shooting attack at an entrance to the West Bank settlement where he worked will be demolished. The Israel Defense Forces notified the family of Nimr Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal, 37, on Monday night. The military said the family has…
(JTA) — A Jewish television reporter for British news station Sky News said that harassment by a former colleague escalated into “brazen anti-Semitism. Caroline Marcus wrote in a column published Tuesday by the Australian edition of Daily Telegraph that the colleague plastered his work station, situated next to hers, with “vile cartoons depicting Jews as…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — All Israelis in Las Vegas have been located and none were injured the shooting attack on a country music festival that killed 58 and injured more than 500. On Monday the Foreign Ministry had said that up to eighteen Israelis were unaccounted for and considered missing. Some 7,000 Israelis live in Las…
Scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for decisive contributions in the observation of gravitational waves, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. Weiss, a professor emeritus at MIT, was born in Germany in 1932 and immigrated to the United States in January of 1939, escaping the Nazi…
A top lawyer at CBS has been fired after she wrote on Facebook that she is “not even sympathetic” to victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” CBS vice president and senior counsel Hayley…
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