David Greenfield, an influential and well-connected member of the New York City Council, will lead the scandal-scarred Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty after his term ends at the end of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported. Greenfield represents much of the Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park in the council. The former head of…
Yossi Izakovitch is betting that he can convince ultra-Orthodox Jews that his Bordeaux-style blend is good enough to justify its $100 price tag — and its $93 price differential with Manischewitz. Since its first vintage in 2011, Izakovitch’s Jerusalem winery, Metzuda, has gone from selling 1,500 bottles to 25,000 bottles last year. “Wine is not…
Taking in the scene of a simulated fruit market in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, a group of tourists ponders whether a poster-size figure of an Arab man holding a cellphone is a threat and should be shot. The aim of the mock scenario is to teach rapt foreign visitors how to…
Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting a downed Palestinian terrorist, will be released to house arrest. Azaria, who was convicted in January and sentenced in February, has been confined to the closed Nachshonim military base since being arrested in March 2016. However, the time of his military service ends on Thursday…
Martin Landau, a star of the 1960s television series “Mission: Impossible” who made a late-career comeback with an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1994 film “Ed Wood,” died on Saturday at age 89, his publicist said on Sunday. Landau died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles from unexpected complications during a short hospitalization for…
Canadian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Palestinian-Jordanian imam who made anti-Semitic statements at a mosque in Montreal last year, the Montreal Gazette reported Sunday. Sheikh Muhammad ibn Musa Al Nasr is being charged with willful promotion of hatred. In his guest lecture in December 2016 at the Dar Al-Araqm mosque, he called…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee has approved a bill that would make it difficult to divide Jerusalem in a peace deal. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved an amendment to an existing Basic Law that would require a majority of at least 80 Knesset members to pass a decision to give up land in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian terror suspect who opened fire as they tried to arrest him. The Palestinian man identified as Amar Ahmed Lutfi Khalil, 34, was killed early Sunday morning during a raid and attempted arrest in in the village of Nabi Salih west of Ramallah by Israel…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic crime has risen to its highest level in the United Kingdom, according to a new audit released by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. According to the National Antisemitic Crime Audit released on Sunday, anti-Semitic crime in 2016 rose 44 percent from 2014. The audit for 2016 registered a total of 1,078 anti-Semitic crimes…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Trump Administration condemned the terror attack on the Temple Mount and backed Israel’s decision to temporarily close the holy site to Muslim worshippers. “The people of the United States strongly condemn the terror attack,” the White House said in a statement issued on Saturday. “There must be zero tolerance for terrorism….
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Jewish hairdresser who got fired for refusing — against the orders of his Jewish boss — to take Shabbat off was awarded nearly $10,000 by a Quebec court for having his religious rights violated. The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal on Thursday ordered the payment by former salon owner Iris Grassy two years after she…
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