As a financial scandal threatens the continued reign of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister, is he going full Trump? As the premier attacks the media and rallies his base, some say the answer is yes. Bibi released his inner Trump at a rally last night to shore up his support as possible indictments await…
This article has been updated after the original Times of Israel article was changed. 18 year-old Denis Shapovalov, who was born in Tel Aviv, upset top-seeded Rafael Nadal 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the third round of the Rogers Cup. “It’s what I dreamed of all my life growing up, playing guys like Rafa (Nadal),…
(JTA) — Before murdering tens of thousands of Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev, Nazi troops dumped at the killing site dozens of Jewish headstones they had stolen from Jewish cemetery, researchers in Ukraine discovered. “The tombstones were removed from a local Jewish cemetery during the Holocaust and thrown into the same ravines where over…
(JTA) — July saw the largest number of Israelis visiting the Temple Mount in any single month since it came under Israeli control in 1967. Some 3,200 people visited the site, which is holy to Jews and to Muslims, who refer to the compound as Haram al Sharif, Army Radio reported Friday. In previous years,…
(JTA) — Two players on Iran’s national soccer team were banned for life from playing for their country for participating in a match against Israelis. The players, Masoud Shojaei, 33, the captain of the national team, and Ehsan Haji Safi, 27, one of Iran’s most promising players, were banned Thursday for playing for their Greek…
(JTA) — Forty years after he terrorized New York with a string of deadly assaults, serial killer David Berkowitz said remorsefully that he expects to die in prison for actions which he cannot explain. Berkowitz, 64, said this during an interview published by the New York Daily News Thursday, the 40th anniversary of his arrest…
In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the rapper Kendrick Lamar spoke publicly for the first time about his cousin Carl Duckworth and the references to Hebrew Israelite doctrine that appeared on his album. When asked about the Hebrew Israelite teaching that black people are under a divine curse, Lamar said he agreed with…
CNN fired pro-Trump commentator Jeffrey Lord on Thursday after he tweeted the Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” and mocked the liberal organization Media Matters as “fascist.” “Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a cable spokesman said. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.” Lord, who was an aide in the Reagan administration, has been a high-visibility pundit…
A Russian entrepreneur has unveiled a “kosher” cryptocurrency called BitCoen. In two months, when BitCoen has its “initial coin offering,” the cryptocurrency will join the ranks of Bitcoin, Ethereum and more than 900 other digital currencies that are traded directly between investors over the internet. The project is the brainchild of Viacheslav Semenchuk, a self-described…
More than two decades ago, as Israel sought peace with Palestinians and Arab states, it also sought to thaw its relationship with North Korea — an effort that diplomats claim might have succeeded had the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, not intervened. According to the Times of Israel, five Israeli diplomats traveled to Pyongyang in 1992…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court reduced the prison sentence of a Palestinian teen who stabbed an Israeli 13-year-old and another man in a Jerusalem neighborhood. The court shortened the 12-year sentence of Ahmed Mansra by 2.5 years, citing a positive report on his rehabilitation. Mansra carried out the attack in October 2015 in the…
