An ultra-Orthodox group is threatening to disrupt operations at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport during the busy Passover holiday week with protests against the drafting of yeshiva students into the army. A body calling itself “the committee for the rescue of the world of Torah” took out ads in ultra-Orthodox media outlets, saying that the planned…
After a three-year long struggle to change his papers to reflect his status as a Jew, Fishel Benkhald is finally receiving a new identity card and passport that recognize his religious affiliation. “It feels like shackles have been removed from me and I feel a great sense of liberty now,” Benkhald told Fox News. Raised…
BOSTON (JTA) – Philanthropist, businessman, and visionary arts patron Ted Cutler, whose charitable giving included Jewish causes, hospitals and feeding the hungry in Boston and Israel, has died. Cutler died on Thursday at the age of 86, of complications from a lung disorder. Cutler, who served in the early 2000s as board chairman of the…
Yehuda Glick wants to go back to the Temple Mount. Glick, an Israeli lawmaker with the ruling Likud party, has filed a petition with the High Court to allow parliament members to visit the politically explosive site holy to both Jews and Muslims. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blocked parliament members from visiting the…
A woman claims to have captured footage of the elusive British artist Banksy at work on an exhibition in an Israeli mall. The woman said she went into a mall in Herzilya, north of Tel Aviv, and a security guard asked her to sign her name. She noticed an English name on the list and…
Sebastian Gorka, the controversial White House aide accused of vowing allegiance to a Nazi-allied group in Hungary, lashed out Sunday at revelations in a Forward expose about his far right wing ties as a “hatchet job.” “First I am an Islamophobe, then I’m an anti-Semite, then I am a fascist,” Gorka told The Telegraph, listing…
(JTA) – American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has received his Nobel diploma and his gold Nobel medal in Stockholm. The Swedish Academy met on Saturday with Dylan in a private ceremony in order to present him with the trappings of his Nobel Prize for Literature, Sara Danius, secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Sunday in a…
Donald Trump has made no secret of his feelings about China. He has accused the rival economic giant of stealing American jobs with nefarious trade policies and sparked a brief diplomatic tiff by calling Taiwan’s premier. But the Chinese believe they have a way of smoothing the waters — and his name is Jared Kushner. Chinese…
Thousands of Hungarian and foreign students, professors and civilians rallied in Budapest on Sunday demanding the government withdraw legislation that could force a university founded by financier George Soros out of the country. The demonstrators, who walked from Budapest’s Corvinus University to the Central European University (CEU) founded by Soros in 1991 and then to…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The David’s Sling missile defense system, which is designed to stop medium-range rockets, drones and cruise missiles, became operational in Israel. They system entered into service with a ceremony on Sunday at the Hatzor military base in central Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense officials were in attendance at…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Negotiations between Israel and the United States on limiting building in the settlements reportedly has been suspended after representatives of the two countries failed to reach an agreement. Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s international envoy and an Orthodox Jew, has traveled in recent weeks to the Middle East for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders….
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