Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told President Trump that he was going “off the chain” to destroy Republican megadonor Paul Singer because of Singer’s funding of anti-Trump research during the 2016 presidential campaign, the news website Axios reported Sunday. The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded largely by Singer, admitted last week…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A leader of Dutch Jews criticized a former prime minister of the Netherlands for using a word that is widely associated with the Holocaust to describe arrests by Israel of Palestinians. Ex-premier Dries van Agt, a pro-Palestinian activist who in 2012 said Jews should have “gotten a piece of land in Germany”…
(JTA) – Israel reportedly blocked the extradition of one of its citizens from Belarus to Azerbaijan, where he is wanted for political crimes. Blogger Alexander Lapshin, who is a dual citizen of Russia and Israel, was arrested in the Belarusian capital Minsk Thursday, the Belarusian news website Telegraf reported. Authorities in Belarus, which is often referred…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — An ad campaign focused on peace created by the Israeli Embassy in Argentina about the 1992 bombing attack on the facility won two communications prizes. The “PeaceWithoutTerror” campaign won two Eikon Prizes for Excellence in Institutional Communications, one for Social Marketing and one for Institutional Advertising. The ad campaign, which received extensive media attention in…
(JTA) — One of the oldest publishing houses in independent Lithuania withdrew the books of a best-selling author over her criticism of a nationalist who is accused of complicity in Holocaust-era crimes. The recall of Rūta Vanagaitė’s books came one day after she revealed that she is in a relationship with Efraim Zuroff, an Israeli…
Instead of its usual artsy or humorous front page, this week’s special edition of Time Out Tel Aviv sports an image of an Israeli security barrier so high it blots out the horizon. It also has a different name: Time Out Ramallah. The issue marks 50 years since Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip and…
“You had to see it to believe it” can be a tired cliche. Sometimes, it is all that is left. In a marathon World Series game that defied the odds, defied belief, and, with home run flying out of the ballpark at a record-setting pace, defied gravity, the Houston Astros outlasted the Los Angeles Dodgers…
(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party downgraded its representation at an event celebrating a milestone of Zionism, which Prime Minister Theresa May she would attend “with pride.” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause and who last year said he regretted calling Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends” in a controversial…
(JTA) — More than one million people in 97 countries around the world participated in the 5th annual Shabbat Project. Some 1,416 cities around the world, up from 1,152 cities last year, held activities surrounding the 25 hours of Shabbat on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28. Some 586 of the participating cities were located in…
A so-called “White Lives Matter” rally organized by a neo-Confederate group called the League of the South went forward Saturday in the small town of Shelbyville, Tennessee, but a follow-up rally in nearby Murfreesboro was scuppered after the marchers learned they would be taunted and outnumbered by counter-protesters. Competing White Lives Matter and Black Lives…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Sunday that he will not run for governor of California in 2018—thereby raising questions about whether the next campaign he wants to run is for president in 2020. “I have decided not to run for Governor of California,” Garcetti wrote on Twitter. “I am passionate about my city and…
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