Top Jewish lawmakers slammed President Trump for abruptly firing FBI Director James Comey — and demanded he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of Russian meddling in the presidential election. Sen. Chuck Schumer said he warned Trump not to dump Comey and said Americans would not accept a Trump-appointed official to oversee the explosive…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “You make us better,” James Comey told the Anti-Defamation League in his final public speech as FBI director. Judging from the applause in the conference room at Washington D.C.’s venerable Mayflower Hotel, the feeling was mutual. Mired in investigations of the scandals of 2016 (Hillary Clinton’s relationship with her email server) and…
Rabbis at the leading Israeli center for Jewish law and technology have given a kosher stamp of approval for kids to use popular hand-held spinner toys on the Sabbath. The Scientific Institute of Technology in Jerusalem, which both reviews and creates technology in accordance with Jewish legal codes, issued a ruling on the use of…
President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening, based on justifications provided by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein’s three-page memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions explained that the primary motivation for Comey’s firing was his alleged mishandling of accusations against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, specifically his announcement on July 5…
President Trump might skip a stop to Yad Vashem while visiting Israel later this month as part of his first foreign trip as president. That’s just one of the surprises in the itinerary, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 on Tuesday. Another is that Trump will travel to Bethlehem rather than Ramallah to meet with Palestinian…
Israel’s oldest news show was yanked off the air on Tuesday after journalists were given just two hours notice that the government was shutting down Channel 1’s nightly news broadcast. In a teary goodbye, anchor Geula Even announced the ending of the show which had run for 49 years. She was joined In her send-off…
The King David Hotel is getting ready to welcome Donald Trump, his family and his entourage — who will require 1,000 rooms in at least three hotels — in Jerusalem as part of his first foreign trip since taking office. The Jerusalem Post reports that the luxury hotel, located west of the Old City, will…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The chief rabbi of Brussels urged a senior EU official to intervene to prevent Belgium’s largest region from banning ritual slaughter of animals. Rabbi Albert Guigui made the plea to Frans Timmermans, the First Vice President of the European Commission, during a rabbinical conference on Tuesday in the Netherlands, where Timmermans spoke…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A plane carrying 240 Ukrainian immigrants landed in Israel on Monday. The flight was chartered by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The group of immigrants is made up of 62 families, including 60 children and adolescents and 10 immigrants above the age 70, as well as 14 cats and dogs….
(JTA) — The Dublin City Council voted to fly the Palestinian flag above City Hall in a show of support for Palestinian statehood. Forty-two councilmen in the Irish capital voted in favor of the motion, 11 voted against and seven abstained on Monday evening. The flag reportedly was raised over City Hall and will remain…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The British medical journal The Lancet published a special issue on Israel three years after publishing an open letter that accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. The special issue, titled “Health in Israel: Progress and Challenges in a Region of Conflict,” was unveiled Monday in Tel Aviv. The issue is…
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