Secular Israel scored a point in the ongoing battle over religion in the public sphere on Wednesday when the Israeli High Court ruled that Tel Aviv mini markets could stay open on the Jewish Sabbath. Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai hailed the ruling in the Israeli press, saying the city “was free and will remain…
Israel’s state comptroller sharply critiqued the state’s treatment of Holocaust survivors ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Haaretz reported. In a report issued on Wednesday, state comptroller Yosef Shapira said that Israel had made it difficult for survivors to access the benefits that they are entitled to and some survivors were at risk of…
Israel’s left wing Meretz Party filed criminal suit against Yoav “The Shadow” Eliasi after the far-right social media personality posted an image to Facebook that painted the faction’s members as traitors. מפלגת מרצ הגישה הבוקר תלונה במשטרה נגד יואב אליאסי, הראפר הצל, בגין הסתה • @akivanovick pic.twitter.com/O4EKe0Qr9i — חדשות 10 (@news10) April 20, 2017 The…
Neo-Nazi and “alt-right” websites are memorializing Adolf Hitler’s birthday with memes, affectionate messages and more long-winded articles on the “peaceful origins” of the Nazis. “Happy birthday, Uncle Adolf. We’ve never missed you more than we miss you right now,” wrote Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. Hitler was born on April…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg credited his “Jewish mother” for giving him the willpower to turn down a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo! in 2006 – at a time when he was only 22 years old and the social network was only making $20 million in revenue. Mike Hoefflinger, Facebook’s former director of global business…
NEW YORK (JTA) — At first glance, The New York Times’ hiring of another white, Jewish male opinion-page columnist is anything but news. But the arrival of Bret Stephens, formerly the foreign affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal, may be especially resonant for American Jews. Stephens, 42, is the former editor of The Jerusalem…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York City Health Department said it cannot complete an investigation into who infected four infants with herpes through an Orthodox circumcision rite because the boys’ families will not identify the mohels. “Unfortunately, some in the community are resistant to sharing the name of the mohels,” Health Department spokesman Christopher…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Palestinian Federation of Chile threatened the country’s Jewish umbrella organization over its support of Israel’s decision to bar a Chilean boycott activist from entering the Jewish state. “We warn the Jewish leadership not to play with fire,” read a statement issued Monday in Spanish by the Palestinian federation regarding its…
Bill O’Reilly was forced out from his perch as a prime-time Fox News host on Wednesday, after the disclosure of multiple settlements involving sexual harassment allegations led advertisers to abandon the program. Here are five of the longtime pundit’s most Jewish moments. 1. Jon Stewart and O’Reilly O’Reilly and Jon Stewart, the Jewish former host…
Jury selection began on Wednesday in the federal fraud trial of Christopher St. Lawrence, the supervisor of the heavily Jewish New York State town of Ramapo. Ramapo, in New York City’s northern suburbs, includes the Orthodox-dominated villages of New Square, Monsey, Airmont and Kaser. It also includes the troubled East Ramapo School district, where Orthodox…
U.S. Representative Jason Chaffetz, who chairs a House committee with broad investigative powers, announced his plans on Wednesday to leave Congress after the 2018 midterm elections, saying he had no intention of running for any political office. “I have no ulterior motives. I am healthy. I am confident I would continue to be re-elected by…
