(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…
Mark Lewis pulls no punches when fighting back against Nazis on social media. The 52-year-old partner at Seddons’ law firm in London has built a reputation of a harsh combatant against anti-Semitism and a strong defender of Israel. In a Times of Israel profile, Lewis is described as “UK’s foremost libel” specialist. A celebrity lawyer…
Arturo Di Modica, the sculptor of Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue is not too happy about the competition from the “Fearless Girl.” He announced this week he will be file a complaint with city officials against the upstart piece, claiming that it infringes on his artistic copyright. And he’s getting help from New York…
“Alt-right” figurehead and white nationalist Richard Spencer plans to speak at Auburn University in Alabama next week. In an online announcement, Spencer said that he will be speaking about President Trump, Syria and the “alt-right.” “If this event is anything like my other ones, it is going to be wild. So, I hope to see…
