BERLIN (JTA) — Israeli novelist Amos Oz was honored by Germany’s Reform rabbinical school with its annual Abraham Geiger Award. The 78-year-old writer, described as an “eloquent spokesperson of the Zionist left,” was honored Thursday as “a firm believer in human beings and their ability to change the world for the better,” Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the…
Has Jared Kushner been told to lower his White House profile amid reports that he is a key figure in the investigation into contacts with Russia? NBC News quotes sources saying that Kushner has been warned by several associates to “lay low” while the Trump administration battles the ever=growing fallout from the probe. A White…
(JTA) — Barbra Streisand announced the death of her dog, Sammie, on her social media accounts. “We cherish every moment of the 14 years we had with her, Streisand, 75, announced on Saturday, including a photo taken of her and Sammie on Mothers Day. Jason took this pic of me holding Sammie on Mother’s Day….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Natan Meir, whose wife Dafna was killed in a terror attack in their home, was married in a ceremony in Jerusalem. Only close family attended the wedding ceremony on Thursday, Arutz-7 reported, and said that no photos from the wedding would be released to the public. Meir announced in March that he…
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, denied reports that in 2014 he had honored a Palestinian perpetrator of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes in Germany. Corbyn, who became the head of Labour in 2015, faces Conservative Theresa May in an upcoming general election. An article published Sunday in the Sunday…
(JTA) — A cousin of the Manchester bomber arrested last week in connection with the attack that left 22 dead posted anti-Semitic messages on social media. Abderahman Forjani, 21, was arrested on May 23, hours after the suicide bomb attack by Salman Adedi outside the Manchester Arena at the end of a concert by American…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel carried out a test launch of a rocket propulsion system from a military base located in the center of Israel. A statement issued by the Defense Ministry Monday morning after the test did not say whether or not it was successful. The rocket could be seen in the sky leaving a…
President Donald Trump attacked the news media and dismissed leaks from the White House as “fake news” following reports his son-in-law tried to set up a secret channel of communications with Moscow before Trump took office. Shortly after Trump’s remarks on Twitter, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly made the rounds of Sunday television news shows…
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has called for an investigation into “potentially fraudulent statements and misrepresentations” made by companies promoting investment in a property development involving the family company of White House advisor Jared Kushner. Chuck Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa, requested a review of claims made by Chinese migration agency Qiaowai…
(JTA) — A Jewish day schoolin North Miami Beach was evacuated following a bomb threat. The Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes school, which has enrolled 600 students from early childhood to high school, received a fax on Sunday demanding $25,000 in ransom and threatening to detonate explosives already in place at the school if the…
President Trump effusively praised his son-in-law Jared Kushner for the work he has done in the White House, amid FBI scrutiny of Kushner’s contacts with Russia and rumors of tension in their relationship. “Jared is doing a great job for the country,” Trump said in a statement to the New York Times on Sunday evening…
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