Some Jewish parents are cutting out one of Judaism’s oldest traditions: the bris. The bris — the ritual circumcision of Jewish boys at eight days old — goes back to the story of Abraham, who circumcised himself and his firstborn son. But some modern Jewish parents are foregoing the ceremony. “Right now, there is a…
MONTREAL (JTA) — A 93-year-old ex-Nazi stripped of his Canadian citizenship for an unprecedented fourth time is vowing to appeal the decision yet again. Last week, Canada revoked the citizenship of Helmut Oberlander, a retired developer in Waterloo, Ontario, who has been accused of hiding his Nazi past before obtaining citizenship in 1960. The government…
After the heads of the Chicago SlutWalk announced they would ban “Zionist symbols” in solidarity with the city’s Dyke March, the organization appears to be easing off that position, with a chief organizer telling the Algemeiner that the demonstration will be inclusive. “Just come with good intentions of participating in a demonstration that’s about supporting…
A much-beloved 83-year-old Manhattan Judaica store is set to close down in the near future, with the owner citing the high rent and the effect of Internet book sales as his reasons. “I can’t afford the rent and the Internet,” owner Yaakov Saltzer told the West Side Rag. His store, which he bought in the…
A technology worker in Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office was arrested at the airport on Tuesday, as he attempted to flee the country to Pakistan, amid a bank fraud investigation. The feds nabbed Imran Awan at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. as he prepared to board a flight to Lahore, Pakistan, reported Politico. Charged in…
(JTA) — Citing the constitutional principle of separation of powers, France’s justice minister said she would not intervene in the trial of a killer whom French Jews said should be charged with a hate crime. The minister, Nicole Belloubet, said this at the beginning of a meeting she had with the president of the CRIF…
Ann Coulter is not happy with President Trump, and she has taken some harsh words to the president himself – with the help of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. According to a report in the New York Times, the right-wing provocateur met with the president a few weeks ago and urged him to re-focus…
(JTA) — Eight years after his release from wrongful imprisonment in Russia, the Israeli billionaire Mikhael Mirilashvili was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress Euro-Asian affiliate, representing communities from Ukraine to Singapore. Mirilashvili, who had spent eight years in a Russian prison until 2009 on trumped up charges connected to his father’s abduction, was voted…
BERLIN (JTA) — A bookshop owned by two Israelis in Berlin has closed its doors amid speculation that its shuttering is the result of threats and pressures by far-left activists. The store, described by its owners as a “conceptual English bookshop” was situated at the Neukölln district. Co-owner Doron Hamburger wrote in a statement on…
(JTA) – The European Union’s top court reversed an earlier ruling from 2015 that said the Palestinian Islamist militia was unjustly blacklisted by Brussels as a terrorist group. Wednesday’s ruling’s by the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice was on an appeal made by European Union justice officials against the 2015 ruling by the General Court of the…
The front-page headline of Israel Hayom, the paper owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, strongly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning over his handling of the Temple Mount crisis, dubbing the matter “Netanyahu’s demonstration of helplessness.” The subheading termed Israel’s response to events on the Temple Mount as “feeble and frightened.” Up until now,…
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