— Natan Sharansky announced he will be stepping down from his position as chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel in June. Sharansky, 68, will complete his second term before he leaves. He took the post in June 2009. “I’m not going to serve another term,” he told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. “I told the…
— The president of Oberlin College, which has been at the center of a number of free speech controversies and faced criticism for its handling of a professor who posted anti-Semitic remarks on social media, announced his resignation as of June 30. Marvin Krislov, 56, announced in a message Tuesday to the college community that this academic year…
(JTA) — American Jews are likely to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, but American Jewry’s fastest-growing community is likely to go the other way. A solid majority of haredi Orthodox Jews will vote for Donald Trump, say experts and Republican operatives in the haredi enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn. While poll data isn’t available…
WASHINGTON ( — Donald Trump said if he is not elected president, the Iran nuclear deal will destroy Israel. Last year’s deal, which trades sanctions relief for a nuclear rollback, “is going to destroy Israel — unless I get elected,” Trump told Cleveland-area labor leaders on Monday, according to The Columbus Dispatch. “Then Israel will…
The chief executive of Israeli satellite operator Space Communication Ltd said on Tuesday he wants to see “several safe flights” from SpaceX before using Elon Musk’s space firm again to launch one of his company’s satellites. In an interview with Reuters, Spacecom CEO David Pollack also said he does not know what caused the explosion…
— San Francisco State University did not have the proper protocol in place to handle a protest against the mayor of Jerusalem during his speech on campus, an investigation found. In a letter accompanying the university’s report into the spring incident released Friday, the school’s president said there was significant work to be done to…
— At least one arrest has been made after threats to Jewish students at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area were posted on social media. Extra security surrounded the Fremont High campus in Sunnyvale, California, when students returned to school after the long holiday weekend, the local NBC affiliate reported. The threat…
JERUSALEM — Israel Railways can do repair and construction work on Shabbat, at least temporarily, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled. The interim ruling issued Tuesday prevents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ordering a halt to the Saturday work, according to reports. Lawmaker Zahava Galon, head of the left-wing Meretz party, had filed a petition to have…
Receding waters in the drought-hit Sea of Galilee have uncovered five World War One artillery shells likely dumped by retreating Turkish troops a century ago, Israeli police said on Tuesday. A swimmer at a resort on the southern edge of the biblical freshwater lake discovered the ordnance, and police demolition experts safely detonated the shells…
— A British lawmaker who was suspended from the Labour party for anti-Semitic comments posted on social media is being investigated by police. Naz Shah, who was readmitted to the party in July, could be charged with inciting religious hatred, an offense punishable by up to seven years in prison, the Daily Mail reported Monday….
— The social media sites of Hollywood actress and writer Lena Dunham have not been updated since she apologized on them to football star Odell Beckham Jr. for making “narcissistic assumptions” about how he acted when seated with her at a dinner. Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO series “Girls,” issued the apology on…
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