(JTA) — It’s been nearly 50 years since Israel captured eastern Jerusalem, including the Old City, from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War. For the past eight years, Nir Barkat has been this city’s mayor. On Sunday evening, six months ahead of the “united Jerusalem” jubilee, Barkat received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University at the…
Almost seven decades after his sister and niece were murdered by a notorious serial killer, Peter Mylton-Thorley is requesting their bodies be exhumed and moved to a Jewish cemetery — where he, too, will lie once he dies. “I haven’t got long left. All I want is to be buried with my sister. It would…
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he would present to President-elect Donald Trump multiple options to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal. “There are ways, various ways of undoing it,” Netanyahu said in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday. “I have about five things in my mind.” He said he would…
JERUSALEM — A Knesset aide was detained from entering the government building in Jerusalem after her dress was deemed too short under the parliamentary dress code. Shaked Hasson, an adviser to Zionist Union lawmaker Merav Michaeli, wore a mid-thigh length dress and leggings. She told Haaretz that five male Knesset guards examined her outfit before determining that it…
BERLIN — One of Germany’s largest corporations – Siemens – has financed the German publication of the memoir of a former Jewish slave laborer who worked in a Siemens factory outside Auschwitz. Marcel Tuchman, 95, a renowned physician in New York, was in Berlin this week to mark the release of his translated autobiography, “Remember: My Stories of Survival and…
WASHINGTON — Members of Shimon Peres’ family will light candles at President Barack Obama’s final Hanukkah party using a family heirloom menorah. Chemi Peres, the late Israeli president’s son, and Mika Almog, his granddaughter, will light the candles at the party Wednesday evening, more than a week before the start of the holiday, according to…
JERUALEM (JTA) — Israel’s health minister called on the public to refrain from eating the traditional Hanukkah treat, sufganiyot. “I call on the public to avoid eating sufganiyot, which are rich in fats,” Yaakov Litzman of the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party said Sunday during a conference to promote healthy eating, Ynet reported. “You…
Richard Spencer, the white supremacist leader of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ is Tweeting again — after Twitter reinstated his personal account. I’m back. pic.twitter.com/ngfq4aHWtc — Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) December 11, 2016 It turns out the social media platform didn’t bounce Spencer, the self-described ‘Karl Marx of the alt-right,’ for spewing hatred against Jews and others…
Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will perform in Sweden in April, offering the singer a chance to give the lecture that is a requirement for getting the $870,000 prize. The media-shy Dylan declined to attend the Nobel ceremony on Saturday. But he is scheduled to perform in Stockholm on April 1 and 2 and in…
A group of 16 members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition submitted a bill to the Knesset on Sunday that would prohibit any practices at the Western Wall that are not deemed strictly Orthodox. The bill would prevent women from wearing prayer shawls and tefillin, from reading from a Torah and from blowing…
The British government is set to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism that includes calling Israel an inherently racist country and making comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to adopt the definition that was recently introduced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, The Jewish Chronicle reported Monday. The definition adopted…
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