Local primary races in New York City are pretty ho-hum this year. With no real challenger for Mayor Bill de Blasio, primary day will pass more-or-less unnoticed tomorrow. Sixteen years ago yesterday was a different story. After eight tumultuous years, Rudy Giuliani was term limited out, clearing the way for what the New York Times,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teen was arrested near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron after he was found to be concealing a knife. The incident on Tuesday is the third in the last week, according to Israel Police. The boy, 15, had been hiding the knife under his shirt, and when he was…
ROME (JTA) – A documentary film about a Polish-Jewish filmmaker has won an award at the Venice Film Festival. The Polish-German co-production, “The Prince and the Dybbuk,” by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski, received the Venice Classics Award for Best Documentary on Cinema. The film traces the life of Moshe Waks, who was born into a poor Jewish…
President Trump’s legal team reportedly wanted Jared Kushner fired over his involvement in the Russia collusion scandal — but his father-in-law refused to dump him. The Wall Street Journal said “some” of Trump’s shifting legal team recommended in June that Kushner be ousted from his position as a top White House adviser. Trump, whose daughter…
(JTA) — Yeshiva University celebrated the investiture of Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman as its fifth president. More than 2,000 people, including Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Consul General of Israel in New York, Dani Dayan; former Sen. Joseph Lieberman, former Israeli Ambassador Danny Ayalon; and Israel’s United Nations Amb. Danny Danon, were in attendance at the…
Israel plans to punish Amnesty International for its recent campaign, which encourages people to lobby companies and governments to boycott settlement products, by denying tax benefits to Israelis who donate to the human rights organization. It is the first time the government will apply the so-called anti-boycott law, which penalizes organizations and individuals calling for…
In response to Hurricane Harvey devastating Houston, the greater southeast Texas and parts of Louisiana, the New York Police Department’s District 3 teamed up with Jewish community organization Amudim, the grocery store Seasons Kosher and other local Jewish organizations to send aid and supplies to where they’re needed most. As District 3 collected funds internally…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An Israeli start-up believes it can solve some of the tricky problems faced by self-driving cars by employing thermal cameras to detect heat from pedestrians, animals and objects, the latest technology being tested in the fast-growing industry. Start-up AdaSky announced on Monday that it had developed a far infrared (FIR) thermal…
(JTA) — Gaby and Dan Rosehill wouldn’t let anything get in the way of their wedding day. Even if that thing was a bomb threat that forced all 218 guests to evacuate the hotel where the wedding was taking place. “I was just about to be named husband and wife when the alarm went off….
A landmark diplomatic summit involving Israel and dozens of African countries has been postponed amid a pressure campaign by pro-Palestinian activists and African Arab states to cancel the event. The summit, scheduled for October 23-27 in the West African nation of Togo, has been postponed “to a date to be agreed upon between the two…
Members of the Jewish community in Sweden’s second-largest city are protesting a police decision to allow a neo-Nazi march less than 500 feet from a synagogue on Yom Kippur. “Aside from out of fear for our own security, it evokes uncomfortable associations for us Jews,” Aron Verständig, the chairman of the Official Council of Swedish…
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