(JTA) — A Palestinian Gazan is no longer employed by a United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees after it was discovered that he was elected to the leadership of the terrorist group Hamas. Agency leaders did not tell media who inquired over the weekend whether Suhail al-Hindi resigned or was fired from the U.N. Relief…
Deep and “unbreakable” ties between Germany and Israel are part of Germany’s national identity and pillars of its foreign policy, but Berlin will continue to press for a two-state solution, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday. “With respect to the Middle East conflict, our solidarity with Israel also means working to ensure that Israel…
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — A retailer in the Australian North Queensland city of Cairns displayed a sign in its window saying that it does not serve Israelis. Israeli tourist Mohr Wenger posted a photo of the sign in the window reading “No Israelis served here” on Facebook. Wenger wrote in her post that she and a…
An Israeli attack against a military base for the Syrian pro-government National Defence Forces in southern Syria killed three NDF members on Sunday, the NDF militia and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitoring group, said it remained unclear if the source of the bombardment in Quneitra province…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man stabbed four people in Tel Aviv in two separate attacks. The assailant, identified by police as an 18-year-old Palestinian, was captured and arrested. The attacks took place in two hotels along the Tel Aviv beachfront promenade, located near the U.S. embassy on the same street. Three of the injured…
Pope Francis urged governments to get migrants and refugees out of holding centers, saying many had become “concentration camps” — a reference that Jewish groups criticized. During a visit to a Rome basilica, where he met migrants, Francis told of his trip to a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos last year. He met…
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide has decreased by 12 percent in 2016 despite a spike in cases in the United Kingdom and the United States, Tel Aviv University’s watchdog on anti-Jewish racism said. The data were published Sunday, Israel’s national day of remembrance of the Holocaust, in the annual “Antisemitism Worldwide” report…
(JTA) — Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar called on French Jews to leave their country if the far right politician Marine Le Pen is elected president next month. Lazar, a Chabad rabbi who was born in Italy and has lived in Russia for 25 years, made the remark on Friday while attending a conference on…
Textbooks on secular subjects in Israel are infused with religious Jewish content, according to a review of 80 books published in the past 10 years conducted by the Israeli parents group the Secular Forum, reported Haaretz. The group called the use of religious themes to explain secular subjects a “systematic and ideological move” to “reshape…
In recent years, young Israeli Jews have looked beyond the traditional state ceremonies that mark Holocaust Remembrance Day to find more intimate points of connection with survivors. Now, one leader of those state ceremonies is taking note. Israeli president Reuven Rivlin participated in Zikaron BaSalon, or Remembering in the Living Room, an initiative that invites…
Judith Clark, the former member of radical group the Weather Underground was surprisingly denied parole April 21. Although she drove the getaway car in the 1981 Brinks robbery that left three people dead, Governor Andrew Cuomo had commuted her sentence, following The New York Times and others in praising her behavior as a prisoner. During…
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