The white supremacist who was convicted of shooting nine people in a South Carolina church as part of his plan to start a “race war” has been barred by a federal appeals court from firing his Jewish and Indian-American lawyers. Dylann Roof filed a hand-written motion to the court from his federal prison, arguing that…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The number of times President Donald Trump mentioned Iran or its derivatives in his U.N. speech? Twelve, and each time to emphasize its threat. The number of times he mentioned the Palestinians or derivatives? That would be zero. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, paying Trump the rare leader-to-leader gesture of attending his…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Three people were indicted for participating in a scheme to pressure an alleged sexual abuse victim not to testify against her abuser, an Orthodox Brooklyn man. The alleged abuser, Samuel Israel, was arraigned Tuesday along with Tanya Freudenthaler and Vincent Paro, a private detective, acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said…
The Iran nuclear deal should be changed to eliminate provisions removing restrictions on Tehran’s atomic program over time or it should be canceled, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. “Change it, or cancel it. Fix it, or nix it,” Netanyahu said in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly annual gathering of world…
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders is among seven Jewish-American senators who sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to implement an agreement to expand an egalitarian prayer plaza at the Western Wall. Netanyahu’s Cabinet put a hold in June on the deal passed in 2016, drawing the ire of American Jewish leaders. In the…
Palestinian women’s activist Rasmea Odeh will be deported to Jordan from Chicago Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reported. Hatem Abudayyeh, coordinator of her defense committee, said that her supporters and some activists will hold a gathering at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport before her flight. Odeh pleaded guilty in April to concealing prior convictions in her application…
(JTA) — A prominent Washington, D.C., synagogue has hired co-senior rabbis. Adas Israel announced Monday that it hired Rabbis Lauren Holtzblatt and Aaron Alexander to succeed Gil Steinlauf, who left the congregation four months ago to create an Innovation Lab for the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Adas Israel President Ricki Gerger in the announcement…
Wolves are attacking Israeli campsites in efforts to take small children and babies, Haaretz reported. Arabian wolves — a subspecies of gray wolf — have attacked campers in 10 different incidents in the last four months, experts say. Israel’s wolves, which number between 100-150, are apparently losing their fear of humans. “Imagine a wolf that…
Zionist Organization of America national president Mort Klein has joined in the right-wing attack on the new president of the Center for Jewish History. Since early September, a network of little-known right-wing advocacy groups have pushed a campaign launched by a former chief of staff to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding the resignation of…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump told the U.N. General Assembly that the United States cannot “abide” the Iran nuclear deal as it stands but notably omitted mention of Israeli-Palestinian peace. “We cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for an eventual nuclear program,” Trump said Tuesday on the first day of this year’s…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel for using their partnership in the Western Wall agreement as a clandestine way to gain recognition. Netanyahu told reporters in New York on Monday night that the Reform and Conservative movements wanted to get recognition “via the backdoor,…
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