(JTA) — A Swiss lawmaker has resigned after comparing the transportation of pigs for farming to the transportation of prisoners to Auschwitz. “The (Nazi) deportees had only a slight chance to survive. As for the pigs, they are condemned to certain death,” Swiss Green Party lawmaker Jonas Fricker said on Thursday during debate in the National…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli judoka Yarden Gerbi, who won a bronze medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics, said she would retire from competitive judo. In her announcement on Tuesday morning Gerbi said: “I felt that the fire in me had gone out.” “I don’t have the energy to give my all on the [judo] mat……
(JTA) — More than five years after his arrest, Abdelkader Merah is being tried for his alleged complicity in the slaying by his brother Mohammed of four Jews and three soldiers in Toulouse, France. The trial of the older Merah, 35, began Monday in Paris in a special tribunal qualified to review highly classified material…
The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas, a decade after the Islamist group seized the territory in a civil war. Rami al-Hamdallah said at a welcome ceremony his unity government would begin assuming control of Gaza’s administrative…
(JTA) — The entire New York congressional delegation has sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging him to deport a former Nazi concentration camp guard. Jakiw Palij, 92, a resident of Queens, New York, was a guard at the Trawniki concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. The letter calling for his…
The Jewish mayor of Las Vegas, Carolyn G. Goodman, in a tweet asked her followers to “Pray for Las Vegas” after 50 people were killed in the works mass shooting in U.S. history. Pray for Las Vegas. Thank you to all our first responders out there now. — Carolyn G. Goodman (@mayoroflasvegas) October 2, 2017…
Activist Linda Sarsour called on Jews to fight for Palestinian rights and spoke out against pro-Israel groups that joined hundreds of Jews and other protesters at the New York March for Racial Justice on Sunday. “It is not my job to educate white people on how to be anti-racist. It’s the job of white people…
Scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks, the award-giving body said on Monday. Hall and Robash are affiliated with Brandeis University. The mechanisms help explain issues such as why people traveling long distances over several…
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and his wife attended the Wimbledon tennis tournament and took a Thames River cruise during a 10-day work trip to Europe in July on a taxpayer-funded trip, The Washington Post reported Friday. Shulkin flew to Europe to meet with British and Danish officials about veterans’ issues, but his tourism during…
(JTA) — Violence between police and pro-independence protesters in Barcelona will not disrupt holiday services there, a leader of the Jewish community said. Victor Sorenssen, a leader of the Jewish community of the capital of Catalonia, an autonomous region with its own language and many residents who seek independence from Spain, said the city’s Jewish…
(JTA) — Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg in a post-Yom Kippur message on his social network asked for forgiveness for the misuse of Facebook in the past year. He posted on his personal Facebook account: “Tonight concludes Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews when we reflect on the past year and ask…
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