JERUSALEM — A controversial bill to legalize some unauthorized West Bank outposts was approved by a Knesset committee. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will now pass the bill on to the Knesset plenum. The bill was sponsored by the Jewish Home party in an effort to save the Amona outpost, which Israel’s Supreme Court determined…
— The New York Observer, a weekly newspaper owned by President-elect Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, will cease publishing a print edition. The November 9 edition of the New York Observer was its last print edition, the newspaper’s parent company, Observer Media, announced in a statement. Observer 2.0 https://t.co/OfoWrb40DP — OBSERVER (@observer) November 11,…
— Sarah Bard, the Jewish outreach director for the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is moving to Israel. Bard, 36, was scheduled to move by next week, she told JTA last month. Her aliyah, to be with her Israeli fiancé, had been planned before the presidential election campaign. She reportedly does not have…
JERUSALEM ( — Melania Trump, the wife of president-elect Donald Trump, and Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister, had a “heartfelt and warm” phone conversation, Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Facebook post. The world leaders’ wives spoke to each other Saturday night. “Mrs. Trump said that she looks forward to our visit…
— Swastikas were drawn on the doors of at least four dorm rooms at a New York university. One of the dorm suites vandalized Saturday at The New School in Manhattan was home to four Jewish students. One of the students tweeted a photo of her door. We woke up to this on our door,…
— A synagogue in Missoula, Montana, requested a police patrol after American Nazi Party fliers accusing Jews of controlling the media were dropped in residential areas of the city. Har Shalom synagogue asked the Missoula Police Department for the extra patrol on Friday afternoon, the daily Billings Gazette reported. It said it was requesting the…
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s newly appointed top White House aide, once objected to his twin daughters going to school with “whiny brat” Jews, court documents revealed. The incoming president’s future right hand man complained that there were too many Jewish students at the Archer School for Girls, an elite private school in Los Angeles because…
Donald Trump’s presidential transition team includes his Jewish daughter and son-in-law, among other family members. Four of the president-elect’s five adult children are on the team, including Ivanka Trump. Her husband, Jared Kushner, a publisher and, like Ivanka, an heir to a real estate fortune, is also on the team. Kushner became one of Trump’s…
An interfaith delegation from Bahrain and other Arab countries met with Italian Jewish leaders at Rome’s main synagogue. Rome’s Jewish community president, Ruth Dureghello, called Friday’s encounter historic. “You will always find our doors open to fight together for a world that is more free, to reinforce the challenge of dialogue,” she said. Led by…
Singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen was buried in Montreal in the family plot a day before his death was made public. Cohen died Monday in Los Angeles and was buried on Thursday at the Shaar Hashomayim cemetery in Montreal, his hometown, according to reports citing a statement from Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, an Orthodox synagogue located…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on lawmakers and government ministers to refrain from speaking publicly about the election of Donald Trump and possible policy changes. Netanyahu said Sunday during the weekly Cabinet meeting that during his telephone conversation with the president-elect last week, “Trump expressed very deep friendship for Israel, a friendship which has…
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