WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump is still reviewing whether to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “The president has not made a decision yet and is still reviewing that,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman, said Wednesday at the daily briefing for reporters. There have been multiple reports in Israeli…
To become the Jewish state’s reigning beauty queen, Rotem Rabi first had to conquer the internet. The 21-year-old Jerusalem-based model won the coveted Miss Israel crown and sash Tuesday with the help of an army of online supporters. “I want to thank all of you for the kindness and support I received from you,” Rabi…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian man who stabbed a British woman to death on the Jerusalem light rail was charged with premeditated murder. The indictment against Jamil Tamimi, 57, of the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem, was filed Thursday by the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office. Hannah Bladon, 21, who died of her injuries after…
Following a meeting with Pope Francis to discuss the protection of Jewish cemeteries in Europe and combating child sex abuse, a delegation of Hasidic Jews broke out in song and dance. Rabbis locked arms, men played guitars and the Pope seemed to bob up and down slightly. A video of the scene went viral. Then…
A Jewish writer and sommelier in Long Island announced her intention last week to run for Congress against Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of only two Jewish Republicans in Congress. Hannah Selinger, a New York City native who moved to the island’s East End six years ago, explained on her Gofundme fundraising page that she was…
Ivanka Trump is reportedly accompanying her father when he comes to Israel this month as part of the president’s first diplomatic trip abroad. This isn’t Ivanka’s first time in Israel. Back in 2008, the president’s daughter and close adviser traveled to Jerusalem to scope out real estate opportunities for the family business. It was one…
Last week the Israel State Archive released documents pertaining to Donald Trump’s 1989 visit to Israel, detailing the real estate mogul’s lavish treatment on his first trip to the Jewish state ahead of the president’s diplomatic visit in May. But people that Trump met with on the trip don’t remember him visiting Israel, raising questions…
A new debate is playing out in New York City’s Orthodox community over the halachic status of an online app designed for women who wish to better observe the religious prohibition on intimacy during menstruation. The application, Tahor, allows for women to anonymously send photos of their bedikah cloths, used to check the vagina for…
After their boss was unceremoniously canned by President Trump, agents at the FBI feel like they’re mourning a loved one in ex-director James Comey. One even said the aftermath feels like sitting shiva. “Everyone feels like there has been a death in the family,” a counterterrorism agent told the Daily Beast. “We’re basically sitting shiva,”…
Israel broke its all-time record for foreign tourists last month, the country’s Ministry of Tourism announced Tuesday. A record-breaking 349,000 visitors arrived in Israel from abroad in April 2017, a 38% increase from the previous April. The total since the beginning of the year is 1.09 million, a 28% increase on 2016. This has reportedly…
MONTREAL (JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada set a record in 2016, rising by 26 percent over the previous year, according to an annual audit. In total, B’nai Brith Canada recorded 1,728 incidents nationwide last year, according to its annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents released Tuesday, compared to 1,277 incidents in 2015….
