Israeli physicians are calling on doctors around the world to refuse to come to Israel in order to force feed Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike. The Israel Prisons Service is reportedly contemplating bringing foreign doctors to Israel to force feed the strikers since the Israel Medical Association barred its members from doing so, according…
A shocking new report says up to 70,000 prisoners — including many Jews — may have been murdered by the Nazis in slave labor camps on the Channel Islands — a toll that British intelligence covered up. Britain’s official history says just 400 prisoners were killed in camps off the French coastline. But a new…
A 53-year-old Israeli Jewish woman is on a hunger strike outside Israel’s parliament building because the state has forbidden her from divorcing her husband. Jewish law requires both husband and wife to agree to a divorce, but Zvia Gordestky’s husband won’t give one to her. His refusal to separate from her landed him in jail…
(JTA) — Leaders of French Jewry expressed both relief over the defeat of the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the presidential elections and concern over her receiving more than a third of the vote. Le Pen, whom the chief rabbi of France and the CRIF umbrella of Jewish communities have decried as dangerous to…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The wife of a prominent Honduran presidential candidate wrote a letter to Latin America’s umbrella Jewish organization to apologize for praising Hitler. Iroshka Elvir, 25, was named Miss Honduras in 2015, said “Hitler was a great leader” during an interview with El Heraldo newspaper published on April 26. “When I talked about Hitler I…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told an audience at Hebrew University in Jerusalem that diverse voices are the “oxygen of democracy.” Steinmeier, who met earlier in the day with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was criticizing the prime minister for cancelling a meeting last month with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel after he…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Prison Service released a video which shows Marwan Barghouti, the high-profile Palestinian prisoner leading a hunger strike, secretly eating in the bathroom of his cell. The hunger strike launched three weeks ago with a Barghouti op-ed in the New York Times. The hundreds of Palestinian hunger strikers are calling for…
The adoptive son of a Jewish jeweler to the stars is reportedly blaming his pal for killing another man after a night of partying at a posh upper East Side apartment. James Rackover, whose father Jeffrey is a jeweler with an A-list clientele, told the Daily News in a jailhouse interview that his buddy and…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A parade of Israeli cabinet ministers praised President Donald Trump and lambasted the Palestinian Authority at the Jerusalem Post’s annual conference. Five ministers from Israel’s right-wing governing coalition, spoke at the conference, held Sunday in New York City. They presented variations on the same message: The Trump administration is pro-Israel, and peace with…
Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed. The centrist’s emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European…
(JTA) — Emmanuel Macron, the centrist candidate in the French presidential elections, beat the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen 65 percent to 34 percent in the final round Sunday, according to exit polls. The result marks both the best electoral result ever obtained by Le Pen’s National Front party — which leaders of French Jewry…
סאָװעטיש־ייִדיש איז געװען אַ ראַדיקאַלער עקספּערימענט, װאָס פֿאַרנעמט אַ װיכטיקן פּלאַץ אױף דער װעלטמאַפּע פֿון ייִדישער קולטור
