JERUSALEM (JTA) — “There will be no tolerance for these acts of anti-Semitism,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said of the recent bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United States, during a weekend visit to Israel. “We must live by the rules that an abuse to one, an affront to one, is an affront…
(JTA) — A radicalized Paris teenager of Turkish descent who attacked a Jewish teacher with a machete was sentenced to seven years in jail. A juvenile court in Paris sentenced the teen in the January 2016 attack on Thursday, Reuters reported. The trial began on Wednesday. Benjamin Amsellem, the victim in the attack, told the…
Fallen tombstones at a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn were felled years ago — and not toppled by anti-Semitic vandals, police and cemetery officials said. “It was old damage, years if not decades,” old, an NYPD spokesman told DNAinfo. The cemetery had structural issues with older tombstones in the past, the spokesman added. Dov Hikind, a…
Chuck Schumer says President Trump’s flailing out at Barack Obama is a sign that he’s feeling squeezed by the federal investigation into his associates’ ties to Russia. The Senate Minority Leader said if Trump’s charge about Obama supposedly tapping his phones is proven false, it is proof he “doesn’t know how to conduct himself.” “It’s…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro will join a Tel Aviv-based think tank as a visiting fellow. The Institute for National Security Studies announced the appointment on its website on Sunday. Shapiro will participate in several of the Institute’s research programs, including those on Israel-U.S. Relations, Israeli-Palestinian Relations, the Arab World,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Cabinet voted to decriminalize recreational use of marijuana. The cabinet voted on the policy at its regular meeting on Sunday. An inter-ministerial committee will now create legislation in order to implement the new policy, which still must be ratified by the Knesset. Thecommittee will present its recommendations to the government by…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The oldest Jewish document of the New World will be returned to Mexico more than seven decades after it disappeared. The 1595 autobiography of Luis de Carvajal, who was a New Christian or “converso” Jew in Mexico, will be returned this month, the Mexican consulate in New York said on Friday. The document…
(JTA) — The Federal Communications Commission has granted Jewish Community Centers throughout the country a temporary waiver allowing them to receive caller information, in response to the recent series of bomb threats on the Jewish institutions. The waiver, approved on Friday, comes days after 29 JCCs and Jewish schools across the country received called-in bomb threats, the fifth such…
(JTA) — A Jewish Community Center in Massachusetts was evacuated after a bomb threat was found written on the wall of the men’s locker room. The Springfield Jewish Community Center was evacuated at about 3 p.m. on Friday. The city’s Arson and Bomb Squad, as well as police and firefighters, searched the building but did…
A family in Aleppo says it is Jewish, and is asking Israel to rescue it from the Syrian city decimated by civil war. “We are asking the government of Israel not to abandon us and to help us leave this place for any other country,” said a woman in a recorded plea in Arabic that…
The United States should “never” change as an “island of safety” for Jews, said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Rivlin commented on the spate of anti-Semitic bomb scares and cemetery attacks in the United States, saying that a “dark, bad, evil wave of anti-Semitism” has struck American Jews. “There is one lesson from the Holocaust: Never…
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