Tel Aviv’s famous cafe culture received a blow today when the Israeli Health Ministry warned Israelis to steer clear of coffee shops after finding unusually high levels of lead in industrial coffee makers in restaurants, cafes and hotels. The Health Ministry and Economy Ministry announced nationwide testing for all coffee makers, with recalls of those…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – He’d rather talk to young women than answer my insistent line of questioning. He speaks in terms that make me feel like a Luddite, and when I bring up stuff he’d rather not talk about, out comes the smartphone. Omar, a Syrian refugee passing time in a Berlin cafe, is not much…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United Nations’ most consistent record of failure is with Israel, according to Nikki Haley, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to the world body. Haley’s confirmation hearings in the Senate are set to begin Wednesday and her broadside against the U.N.’s treatment of Israel appears in prepared remarks obtained by…
Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of Los Angeles’ Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Haaretz that he accepted the invitation to say a prayer at Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday in part because refusing it would cause “ill will” toward Jews among the American public. Hier also criticized Rep. John Lewis and other Democrats who are boycotting the…
A senior member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has triggered outrage on social media for verbally attacking Berlin’s Holocaust memorial and saying that Germany must rewrite its history books to focus more on its own victims. The AfD’s anti-immigrant rhetoric has won support among Germans worried about the influx of more than a…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The director of Auschwitz –Birkenau Museum has appealed to Germans and Austrians to donate documents, photographs, personal letters, or any other materials related to the SS staff of the camp. “Without a comprehensive analysis and understanding of the motivation and mentality of the perpetrators, our efforts to wisely counsel future generations…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazil announced it has accepted Yossi Sheli as Israel’s ambassador to the country putting an end to a standoff that led to a diplomatic abyss between the Jewish state and Latin America’s flagship nation. The announcement made on Tuesday had been expected since Brazil’s centrist President Michel Temer was sworn in amid the impeachment…
SYDNEY (JTA) — The mayor of the Sydney municipality of Mosman has been accused of being an anti-Semite after he declined to attend the ceremonial Law Service at the city’s Great Synagogue, citing his opposition towards Israel’s actions in the West Bank. Mayor Peter Abelson received a personal invitation to the annual event, held at…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four Jewish Democrats in Congress are among 59 of the party’s U.S. House of Representatives delegation who will not attend Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. The four are Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York.; Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland; Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky; and Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee. The movement to…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish umbrella group urged the Senate to confirm Betsy DeVos as education secretary and another expressed enthusiasm for her agenda, while the Reform movement expressed concerns about her support for government funding of religious schools. Agudath Israel of America said in a letter Tuesday to the Senate Education Committee as it…
Police in Israel said an Arab Israeli on Wednesday rammed his car into a group of policemen in the southern Negev region, killing one before being shot dead, though a rights activist who was present disputed it was an attack. Police said the violence sparked a riot in the village of Umm al-Hiran, where an…
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