(JTA) — Jonah Bolden, a second-round pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2017 NBA draft, will play in Israel for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Bolden, 21, a 6-foot-10 forward, made the announcement Friday that he had signed a three-year deal with the most prominent basketball team in the Israeli Premier League. The deal has an…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Tuesday decided to remove metal detectors it had placed at the entrance to a holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City with other, less obtrusive surveillance means, a cabinet statement said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted to remove the metal detector gates after a meeting lasting several hours convening for…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The members of Israel’s diplomatic mission in Amman, Jordan, including a security guard who shot and killed his teenage assailant and a bystander, are back in Israel. The embassy employees, who had been confined to the embassy compound all day Monday following the stabbing attack Sunday evening by a 17-year-old and subsequent shooting,…
The right-wing Zionist Organization of America is calling for the resignation of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over language in the State Department’s annual terrorism report. According to the ZOA, this year’s version of the report, issued in early July, includes language that “falsely blames Israel for Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israelis.” The State Department…
Is Jared Kushner’s best defense in the ever-expanding Russia scandal to portray himself as a hapless neophyte? Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University law school, said Kushner added little new with his appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee — but sought to make the best of a bad situation. “At best, these meetings…
Amir Fryszer-Guttman, former lead singer of the popular Israeli boy band Hi Five, has died after rescuing his 5-year-old niece and a family friend who were overcome by a wave at a beach south of Haifa. Fryszer-Guttman, 41, was taken to Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center in serious condition following the incident on Saturday. He was…
(JTA) — A group of Orthodox rabbis in London have called on their members to boycott the city’s JW3 Jewish cultural center because it holds events for LGBT Jews. Signed by seven haredi Orthodox rabbi, the letter released Friday calls on members of their communities to “distance themselves fully from JW3, its activities and services,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration called on Iran to return a Jewish-American man who disappeared from Iran in 2007 while working on behalf of the CIA. The statement issued Friday by the White House said the United States is “redoubling efforts to bring home all Americans unjustly detained abroad,” naming specifically Robert Levinson, an American former…
A Noah’s Ark theme park may have just hit rough waters. Kentucky tourism officials have suspended a tax rebate deal worth $18 million after Ark Experience handed over the land the theme park sits on to an affiliated not-for-profit entity. The officials said the sale of the $48 million property for just $10 violated the…
Laura Loomer, an ascendant Jewish figure of the far right, is reportedly getting a nose job next month — and her surgeon says he’s hoping to become the go-to face-lift doc for the so-called “alt-right.” “I am so excited for my nose job!!” she wrote on Instragram. “How could anyone say no to this? It’s…
United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov warned on Monday that a solution was needed by Friday to the Jerusalem mosque crisis, which threatens to have “potential catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the Old City.” “It is extremely important that a solution to the current crisis be found by Friday,” he told reporters…
