Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international police organization’s general assembly in Beijing, Interpol said. “The State of Palestine and the Solomon Islands are now INTERPOL member countries,” an Interpol tweet read. The Israeli Foreign Ministry, which said earlier that Israel’s efforts…
(JTA) — New York philanthropists Jack and Shirley Silver have donated $20 million to the UJA-Federation of New York to improve Jewish day camp facilities. The legacy commitment gift announced on Monday is the largest given to the UJA during the donor’s lifetime, the agency said in a statement. The gift is directed to the…
(JTA) — Many Jews around the world make a tradition of visiting Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday, which is also known as the Feast of Booths. Can’t make it to the Holy City? Fear not. Your sukkah can now transport you there. Well, sort of. The Panoramic Sukkah is a creation by Andy “Eliyahu” Alpern,…
Austria’s anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO) expelled one of its officials in Tyrol province over reports that he had displayed Nazi paraphernalia in the back of his pharmacy, a party spokesman said on Wednesday. The FPO, which is fighting with the Social Democrats for the second place in parliamentary elections on Oct. 15, has on previous…
Hollywood actor and video game spokesperson Steven Seagal kindly issued his final opinion on “Good Morning Britain” Wednesday morning about the growing number of NFL players who are kneeling during the National Anthem to protest police brutality. “I don’t think they should hold the United States of America hostage by taking a venue where people…
New Orleans’s annual Fried Chicken Festival has apologized for using a Holocaust memorial as an employee break area and pledged not to use the space next year, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Tuesday. The memorial, in the Big Easy’s Woldenberg Park, was covered by tables and ice chests holding beer. Festival organizers said in a…
(JTA) — Following allegations that Labour is whitewashing its anti-Semitism problem, the British party adopted rules designed to facilitate the expulsion of members caught using hateful rhetoric against Jews. The rules, which the Labour Party Conference adopted Tuesday, “finally make it easier to expel antisemites,” the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog wrote in a statement about…
NEW YORK (JTA) — As spiritual leader of one of the most widely known Reform synagogues in America, Rabbi Joshua Davidson tries not to be divisive on the holiest days of the year. So on the High Holidays of years past, when he stood before thousands of congregants at Temple Emanu-El in New York City,…
(JTA) — President Trump said that Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died earlier this year after being imprisoned in North Korea, had been “tortured beyond belief.” Trump’s comment on Tuesday followed an interview with Warmbier’s parents on “Fox & Friends” in which they described their son’s condition when he was released in June….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer said on Tuesday that Iran was complying with the pact curbing its nuclear program and warned that any American decision to walk away from it would make other nations less likely to enter into agreements with the United States. President Trump is considering whether to withdraw from…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, is still an Independent, but he’s no longer an outsider. That became clear this month when some Democratic establishment stalwarts in the Senate signed on to his “Medicare-for-All” bill, which would establish a single-payer system for health care. Hillary Clinton is on a book tour and…
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