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…
Top executives from Alphabet Inc, Apple Inc and Facebook Inc are among a small group of tech leaders invited to a summit to be held on Wednesday by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Recode reported, citing sources. Executives from Microsoft Corp, Intel Corp and Oracle Corp will also be among “a very heady group of less…
— A bill to facilitate the return of Nazi-looted artworks to their original owners or heirs passed the U.S. Senate. The Senate unanimously passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, on Friday. The House passed the same bill on Dec. 7. It must still be signed into law by President Barack Obama. The bill would extend the statute of…
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi said women should not serve in the Israel Defense Forces and should not perform national service. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef made the pronouncements on Saturday night during his weekly Torah lesson, according to reports. He cited the Rambam as saying that women who go out to wars commanded by the…
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