JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family of a 6-year-old Palestinian boy whose parents and brother were killed in an arson attack on their West Bank home has filed a lawsuit against the state of Israel demanding $2.78 million in compensation. Right-wing Jewish extremists were indicted in the July 2015 firebombing in the Palestinian village of Duma in…
(JTA) — New York State police have called on the public to help find the vandals who defaced a Jewish cemetery with anti-Semitic graffiti. The brick wall surrounding the Beth Shalom Cemetery in Warwick, a suburban town located about 90 minutes north of Manhattan, was vandalized with black spray paint including the words “Heil Hitler,”…
A whopping 96% of Israelis eligible to vote in France’s elections on Sunday voted for president-elect Emmanuel Macron, France’s ambassador to Israel said. Helene Le Gal offered the figure in a post on Twitter, but noted that the results were still not complete. The landslide vote would reflect the opposition of many French Jews to…
(JTA) — Plans for Britain’s Prince Charles to visit Israel have been scrapped by the Foreign Office, a London newspaper is reporting. Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, would have been the first member of the Royal Family to make an official state visit to Israel since its founding. Though the visit was not…
Israeli physicians are calling on doctors around the world to refuse to come to Israel in order to force feed Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike. The Israel Prisons Service is reportedly contemplating bringing foreign doctors to Israel to force feed the strikers since the Israel Medical Association barred its members from doing so, according…
A shocking new report says up to 70,000 prisoners — including many Jews — may have been murdered by the Nazis in slave labor camps on the Channel Islands — a toll that British intelligence covered up. Britain’s official history says just 400 prisoners were killed in camps off the French coastline. But a new…
A 53-year-old Israeli Jewish woman is on a hunger strike outside Israel’s parliament building because the state has forbidden her from divorcing her husband. Jewish law requires both husband and wife to agree to a divorce, but Zvia Gordestky’s husband won’t give one to her. His refusal to separate from her landed him in jail…
(JTA) — Leaders of French Jewry expressed both relief over the defeat of the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the presidential elections and concern over her receiving more than a third of the vote. Le Pen, whom the chief rabbi of France and the CRIF umbrella of Jewish communities have decried as dangerous to…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The wife of a prominent Honduran presidential candidate wrote a letter to Latin America’s umbrella Jewish organization to apologize for praising Hitler. Iroshka Elvir, 25, was named Miss Honduras in 2015, said “Hitler was a great leader” during an interview with El Heraldo newspaper published on April 26. “When I talked about Hitler I…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told an audience at Hebrew University in Jerusalem that diverse voices are the “oxygen of democracy.” Steinmeier, who met earlier in the day with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was criticizing the prime minister for cancelling a meeting last month with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel after he…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Prison Service released a video which shows Marwan Barghouti, the high-profile Palestinian prisoner leading a hunger strike, secretly eating in the bathroom of his cell. The hunger strike launched three weeks ago with a Barghouti op-ed in the New York Times. The hundreds of Palestinian hunger strikers are calling for…
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