The United Nations Security Council will meet to discuss the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The meeting will be held on Friday at the request of eight countries that sit on the 15-state body. The request for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to brief the Security Council at the meeting came from…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Twenty Palestinians from the West Bank village of Qusra were arrested for suspected involvement in an attack on Jewish children hiking in the West Bank. The arrests came overnight Wednesday, according to Israeli media reports. During the raid, Israeli security forces found some of the equipment and personal possessions taken from the…
(JTA) — Several University of California, Berkeley Jewish student groups called on the university to take action against a lecturer over several anti-Semitic tweets. In a letter to the university administration, the groups said Berkeley had not gone far enough in addressing the tweets by Hatem Bazian, a lecturer in the Department of Asian American…
Amid growing calls for his resignation, Senator Al Franken announced this morning that he will be giving a speech on the Senate floor before noon. Franken’s office announced the speech in a bare bones tweet that belied the dramatic drop in support from congressional Democrats in the wake of a seventh accusation of sexual misconduct…
(JTA) — Los Angeles-area synagogues and Jewish institutions closed in the wake of a major fire, dubbed the Skirball Fire after the Jewish cultural center that is in its path. Leo Baeck Temple, Stephen Wise Temple, American Jewish University’s Familian Campus and the Skirball Cultural Center all were closed due to the fire, the Los…
Ultra-Orthodox politicians in Israel reacted with unexpected skepticism toward Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Arutz Sheva reported. Though many Haredi politicians have advocated for such recognition, some are now saying now was not the time. They worry that it will force Israel into a peace process…
At a recent talk, former President Barack Obama warned U.S. citizens not to “grow complacent,” citing the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany’s culturally progressive Weimar Republic, Crain’s reported. The remarks came during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday. “We have to tend to this garden of…
(JTA) – Human remains were dug up during construction work next to a Jewish cemetery in eastern Poland. The remains were unearthed on Tuesday, during work to modernize the power grid for the city of Siemiatycze. The ground where the remains were uncovered is adjacent to the fence of the Jewish cemetery. The case is…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Police are investigating the smashing of a window of a kosher restaurant in a heavily-Jewish part of the Dutch capital by a man wearing a Palestinian flag. The incident at HaCarmel restaurant occurred Thursday morning, hours after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The AT5 television station showed a video…
Democrat Al Franken will resign from the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Minnesota Public Radio reported, after more than half of his Senate Democratic colleagues urged him to do so in light of sexual misconduct accusations. Franken said on Twitter that no final decision had been made. After accusations began surfacing three weeks ago, Franken said…
President Trump is hosting his first White House Hanukkah reception on Thursday, keeping up with a tradition dating back to the George W. Bush presidency and kept by Barack Obama. There will be some major differences, however. First, the party, which ballooned in recent years into a massive event requiring two separate rounds of menorah…
