— Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Benjamin Netanyahu cost Israel $4.5 billion in defense aid because of Netanyahu’s strained relations with President Barack Obama. Barak’s latest criticism of Israel’s current prime minister came during an interview for Army Radio on Thursday in which Barak quantified for the first time claims he made recently —…
ROME – Italy’s Jews mourned the death of former President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who had a close relationship to the Italian Jewish community. Ciampi, who served as president from 1999 to 2006, died Friday at 95. In a statement, the president of the umbrella Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Noemi Di Segni, expressed “the deepest…
— An Israeli municipality near Tel Aviv urged young religious women to refrain from touching a statue that some visitors believe has the power to increase fertility. The unusual statement by Ramat Gan Deputy Mayor Adva Pollak follows pilgrimages in recent weeks to a statue titled “Birth,” by the late artist Menashe Kadishman, which was…
Israeli forces shot dead three Arab assailants in separate incidents in East Jerusalem and the West Bank on Friday, police and the military said, in a flare-up of a nearly year-old wave of Palestinian street attacks. With most anti-Israeli assaults carried out since October by individuals without any central guiding hand, it was difficult to…
WARSAW, Poland – The Jewish Historical Institute said it will open an exhibition dedicated to the Ringelblum Archive, which chronicles the history of the Warsaw Ghetto. The entire archive also will be available for free on the internet, the Warsaw institute said Thursday at a news conference while presenting details of the project. Individual documents…
— A small city in northeast Portugal unveiled for the first time a 400-year-old Torah scroll that a local contractor had found 10 years ago at a demolition site and kept wrapped up in linen. The ancient scroll, written on parchment, was put on display in Covilha’s city hall on Friday, Portugal’s Diario de Noticias…
A double-digit score for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a Berlin city vote on Sunday would be seen around the world as the rebirth of the Nazis, the mayor of the German capital has warned. The right-wing AfD has gained support as voters become increasingly uneasy with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy,…
The Trumps are stumbling over an insensitive Holocaust reference once again. And this time it’s Donald Trump, Jr.’s turn. Speaking on a Philadelphia talk radio interview Wednesday, Trump Jr. lashed out at the media, which, he claims, is biased in favor of Hillary Clinton. And this is how it came out: “The media has been…
— Payments have started issuing from a United States-run compensation fund for Holocaust survivors deported to Nazi camps via the French rail system. The $60 million compensation fund established in December 2014 has so far approved 68 claims, and is processing an estimated 700 in total, Stuart Eizenstat, the Secretary of State’s special adviser for Holocaust issues, said in a…
— Two leading Christian groups blamed Israel almost entirely for the conflict with the Palestinians and called on the United States to cut defense aid to the Jewish state. Jewish organizations slammed the statement Wednesday by The World Council of Churches and The National Council of Churches of Christ, USA, ecumenical groups that represent over 545…
— The New York City Council approved a nonbinding resolution to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The resolution, which passed Wednesday in a 40-4 vote with six abstentions, condemns “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people of Israel.”…
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