JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis aged 80 and older will no longer have to wait in line in stores and for most services. The Knesset passed a bill on Tuesday night that will allow the elderly to receive public services without waiting in line at places such as the post office, bank, supermarket, movie theaters and…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man who assisted in a terror attack that killed an Israeli rabbi and father of 10 was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Muhammad al-Amarya was sentenced Wednesday by a West Bank military court for the July 2016 drive-by shooting near Hebron that killed Rabbi Michael “Mikki” Mark, 48, the…
John Yarmuth, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives budget committee, said Republican legislation to repeal former President Obama’s signature health care law “is in legislative quicksand.” “It is sinking of its own weight, and every time the Republicans try to move one way or another, it is sinking faster,” said Yarmuth, of Kentucky,…
Google’s decision to keep anti-Semitic David Duke videos on YouTube is irking lawmakers across the pond. Britain’s Commons Home Affairs committee summoned Tuesday executives from Google, Twitter and Facebook for a hearing in which the social media giants were slammed for their failure to block hate speech and anti-Semitic content from their platforms. Chairwoman Yvette…
A U.N. agency published a report written by lightning rod human rights expert Richard Falk that accuses Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people. The report commissioned by the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) concluded “Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian…
Simone Zimmerman, briefly the Jewish outreach coordinator to Bernie Sanders, blasted Israel’s new travel ban targeting supporters of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement. “I’m outraged there’s a chance I might not be allowed into this country,” Zimmerman said in a video by Israeli daily Haaretz. It has been shared 1,000 times. Zimmerman, an activist…
A French freelance photographer apologized on Wednesday for any offense caused by a mock road sign he placed in a Jewish neighborhood of London. The red triangular warning sign, featuring a silhouetted image of a man in Orthodox Jewish clothing and hat, was seen near a synagogue in Stamford Hill. Photographer Franck Allais told Reuters…
(JTA) — The investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive map that chronicles over 300 anti-Semitic crimes across the United States from the past few months. The graphic, which was published Wednesday, is a companion to an article ProPublica ran last week, “In an Angry and Fearful Nation, an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism,” which found…
(JTA) — Israel ended its Cinderella run at the World Baseball Classic, after losing to Japan’s national team at home in Tokyo. More than 40,000 fans packed the Tokyo Dome on Wednesday to cheer the home team to an 8-3 victory over Israel. The game remained scoreless until the sixth inning when Japan scored five runs….
Following a visit to Israel, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes — who left Vice a decade ago — launched into a rant against Jewish people and the Jewish state, in a post inventively titled “10 Things I Hate About Jews.” According to McInnes, Hebrew is “spit talk” and “whole language is clearing your throat, it’s like…
Israeli authors Amos Oz and David Grossman have been named to the longlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. The prize, granted annually, is a prestigious award for English-language literature. Oz was nominated for his first novel in a decade, “Judas.” Grossman was nominated for his tragicomic “A Horse Walks Into a Bar.” The longlist,…
