(JTA) — An Arab rights group said it plans to file a legal appeal protesting a ban on bringing leavened bread products into Israeli hospitals during the Passover holiday. In a statement Thursday, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, said the ban forces Arab Israelis to adhere to Jewish religious law,…
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would take decisive action to end the political split between his regime and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. “These days, we are in a dangerous and tough situation that requires decisive steps, and we are to take these decisive steps,” Abbas said Wednesday, according to an Associated Press…
(JTA) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Israeli-Palestinian peace talks should be revived in an effort to correct the “historical injustice” of Palestinians not having their own state. Wang’s comments on Thursday came at a press conference following his meeting with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in Beijing, the Associated Press reported. Wang said it is “unfair” that…
(JTA) — Israeli political leaders condemned an article in the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz saying Israel’s national religious community is “worse than Hezbollah.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Facebook Wednesday that the article is “shameful and disgraceful,” and called on the newspaper to apologize. Education Minister Naftali Bennett, opposition leader Isaac Herzog and…
(JTA) — Israeli police arrested five Jewish men after clashing with police and local residents of Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli police said the men arrived at one of the entrances to the Temple Mount in order to pray and got into a fight with local residents, the Times of Israel reported. After police arrived, the…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump and the Jewish members of his family did not attend a Passover seder held at the White House — but he did tweet holiday greetings to Jews. The seder, held Monday on the first night of Passover in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, continued a…
Allan Lichtman was virtually alone among political pundits in foretelling President Trump’s upset win in the 2016 elections. Now the American University professor is making an even more daring prediction: He says Trump will be impeached. “My ‘next big prediction’: after winning the presidency, he (will) be impeached,” Lichtman writes in the foreword of his…
(JTA) — Israeli authorities ramped up efforts to find three people who went missing while rafting on the Sea of Galilee. Itamar Ohana, 19, Nahman Itah, 21, and a third unnamed 17-year-old went missing Wednesday in three separate incidents, the Times of Israel reported. Israeli authorities began the search Wednesday and continued overnight, and were joined…
Mark Wainberg, a trailblazing Canadian AIDS researcher, reportedly died Tuesday while swimming in rough water in Bal Harbour, Florida. He was 71. Wainberg, who lived in Montreal, was swimming Tuesday with his family when he started struggling with heavy surf and rip currents, Bal Harbour police chief Miguel De La Rosa said, according the the…
A Republican state lawmaker from North Carolina called Abraham Lincoln “the same sort of tyrant” as Adolf Hitler, sparking new controversy just days after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was skewered for appearing to downplay the Holocaust. “And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it?” Rep. Larry Pittman wrote in…
For the first time in years, the Jerusalem municipality is enforcing the law against public displays of leavened bread during Passover at the Old City’s Jaffa Gate this year. Municipal inspectors confiscated the wares of a bagel vendor at the site on Wednesday and prevented others from selling their goods. The bagels have become one…
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