(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,…
Trump’s lawyer on Tuesday denied that he or Trump colluded with Russia to interfere in last year’s presidential election, and said such charges were meant to discredit Trump’s presidency. “I emphatically state that I had nothing to do with any Russian involvement in our electoral process,” Michael Cohen said in a statement prepared for a…
The Jewish Agency has cut funding from an Israel trip for young Jews over allegations that trip leaders brought participants to at a leftist protest camp in the West Bank, Haaretz reported. The Israel trip, called Achvat Amim, is run by the socialist Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair and funded by the Jewish Agency’s MASA…
Ivanka Trump said Monday that she suffered from postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter Arabella, according to Page Six. Trump made the comments in an interview with daytime TV host Dr. Oz that will be aired in a future episode of his show. Trump also spoke about Hillary Clinton’s recent memoir, “What Happened.”…
The Hasidic section of Crown Heights saw two acts of anti-Semitic vandalism over the weekend, according to social media reports. “To the ‘Jews,’ how many was raped, killed and sacrificed to have this street all yours?” someone had scrawled on a park bench. And on a dollar bill given as change at a kosher coffee…
Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie is taking new legal action against the “alt-right” for using illustrations of his cartoon, the amphibian character that has become an iconic meme of the far-right. Furie has protested the transformation of his cartoon character into a cartoon associated with racism and anti-Semitism and is seeking to disassociate the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tzohar Rabbinical Organization in partnership with Yachad Ohr Torah Stone will host holiday services on both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, expecting to reach close to 70,000 people throughout Israel. Through its network of volunteers, 250 shofar blowers will provide their services in cities, moshavim and kibbutzim around the country and…
(JTA) — Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death for killing nine black worshipers, has told a federal appeals court he wants to fire the attorneys handling his appeal because one is Jewish and the other is Indian. Roof, a white supremacist whose racial manifesto said the Jewish “problem” would be solved “if…
The Israeli Consulate in New York was briefly closed after the second threat in less than a week. The consulate was closed and employees prevented from leaving after an envelope containing a white powder and a threat against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was sent to the building on Monday, Ynet reported. The envelope arrived…
Israel shot down a pilotless aircraft that tried to enter its airspace at its Golan Heights frontier with Syria on Tuesday, the Israeli military said. Israeli media said a Patriot interceptor missile was used in the incident.
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