(JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview that the Western Wall belongs to Israel and Israel’s capital should be in Jerusalem — regardless of what U.S. policy says. Haley made the comments during an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody in the wake of reports that a Trump…
(JTA) — Gravestones were toppled at a Philadelphia-area cemetery, the second such vandalism in the area this year. Five headstones were discovered knocked off of their bases at the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of northeastern Philadelphia. The gravestones were not defaced by graffiti, according to the news website Philly.com. Police reportedly do…
The report that slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks sounded like a bombshell. But it took only a few hours for the tale to be debunked as just the latest conspiracy theory surrounding the still-unsolved 2016 murder. The source for the story, a private investigator ostensibly working for Rich’s family, suggested…
Israeli intelligence experts are gravely concerned that President Donald Trump’s sharing of classified information with Russia may have compromised an Israeli agent. The New York Times, citing a current and a former U.S. official, reported on Tuesday that the information Trump divulged came from an Israeli intelligence asset based in Islamic State-held territory in Syria….
(JTA) — An Israeli agent undercover inside the Islamic State has been put at risk by U.S. President Donald Trump’s disclosure of classified information to Russia, ABC News reported. The spy had provided Israel with intelligence about an Islamic State, or ISIS, plan to cause the crash of a passenger jet on the way to…
(JTA) — An unprecedented exhibit centered on the image, history and symbolism of the seven-branched menorah has opened in Rome. Titled “Menorah: Cult, History and Myth,” the exhibition is a joint project of the Vatican Museum and the Rome Jewish Museum — the first time the two museums have cooperated in this way. It will run…
(JTA) — On a recent Sunday, eight far-right activists filmed themselves on what they called a “raid” on the Aurora Jewish community center in Budapest. Sporting crewcuts and black clothes, the men affixed posters with a crossed-out picture of the Hungary-born Jewish American billionaire George Soros to the entrance of the building, which along with having…
(JTA) — A Swedish government agency on information apologized for blocking briefly from its account on Twitter thousands of users, including that of Israel’s ambassador in Stockholm, that it flagged as engaging in hate speech. The Swedish Institute published the apology Tuesday on the Swedish-language edition of its website, in which it also stated that…
Arson is suspected in the raging blaze that destroyed a historic 150-year-old synagogue on New York’s Lower East Side. Video footage shows three teenagers entering Beth Hamedrash Hagodol on Norfolk Street and leaving just before the fire erupted Sunday, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told the New York Daily News. “We do think it…
Larry Krasner has spent three decades as an outsider, representing activists from the anti-AIDS and Black Lives Matter movements as a criminal defense lawyer. He’s now poised to become the ultimate insider after winning a Democratic primary to be Philadelphia’s next district attorney. “I always did this because I think trials should always be fair,…
A cartoon in one of Norway’s largest newspapers compared circumcision to pedophilia amid a debate in that country over whether to ban the religious practice. The cartoon, published Tuesday in Dagbladet, depicts a disheveled man talking to Jewish and Muslim protesters holding signs reading “Yes to circumcision” and “Freedom of religion.” The man responds, “I…
