AMSTERDAM — Dutch police are considering whether to indict for incitement to hatred three men who passed out fliers in Amsterdam condemning homosexuality, citing it “being forbidden by Judaism, Christianity and Islam.” The men, aged 29 to 39, surrendered themselves to police after officers questioned a man whose car the suspects said they borrowed to…
— Oskar Schindler’s former factory in the Czech Republic will be declared a listed monument by the country, the Oskar-Schindler Foundation said. The foundation took over the management of the dilapidated building in the village of Brnenec in August. It plans to restore the building and turn it into a Holocaust memorial by 2019, the…
— Researchers recently uncovered in Jerusalem a stone burial slab that many believe Jesus Christ’s body may have been laid on following his death. The original surface of the tomb was uncovered in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City during restoration work and has been covered by marble cladding since at…
None of the Ramones were the most dedicated students, preferring to rock out than to attend classes. But come Sunday, the news site DNAInfo reported, the street in front of the place where the four original members met, Forest Hills High School, will be renamed ‘Ramones Way’ in honor of the innovative punk rock band….
— A Methodist church in Hungary offered to pay for the construction of Torah ark for a Budapest synagogue ravaged by fire. The Zuglo Synagogue in the Hungarian capital’s 14th district sustained heavy damage in a blaze that broke out Monday night, possibly as a result of an electric failure. No one was injured but…
A Brooklyn synagogue had to celebrate Simchat Torah without four of its holy scrolls, following a theft on Tuesday morning. But in a thankful reversal of fortune, the Torahs were returned to the Midwood congregation shortly after midnight on Friday, leaving some to speculate that the robber saw the error of his ways. “Thanks to…
JERUSALEM — A memorial service for Shimon Peres marking the 30-day mourning period, or shloshim, will include the unveiling of the former Israeli president’s tombstone. The ceremony is scheduled for Friday at the Great Leaders of the Nation’s plot at Mount Herzl, Israel’s national cemetery, in Jerusalem. At his family’s request, the tombstone will be…
(JTA)— “She’s accumulated a fair amount of warts.” She is “proven to be dishonest and difficult to trust.” “I thought as secretary of state she should have been fired.” That’s what some Orthodox supporters of Hillary Clinton in the Cleveland area are saying about their candidate. And some Donald Trump backers? “I wouldn’t even say…
— Speaking at a synagogue in Florida, Ivanka Trump assured Jewish voters that her father would “100 percent” move the US embassy to Jerusalem if he is elected president. Ivanka Trump, who converted to Judaism in 2010 and is married to a Jewish man, called her father, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, an “unbelievable…
– The representative body of British Jews called on the University College London to sanction students who disrupted an event organized by supporters of Israel. The Board of Deputies of British Jews issued its statement Friday about an event at UCL Thursday night, in which “a hate-filled mob supporting the worst kind of extremism in…
(JTA) — Roger Waters’ anti-Israel activism has cost the British rock star millions of dollars and an American Express sponsorship, the New York Post reported. The credit giant took off the table a $4-million sponsorship of Waters’ 2017 tour in North America following his partisan and anti-Israel rhetoric this month at a festival that American…
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