Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since U.S. President Donald Trump took office signaling he would be less critical of such projects than his predecessor. A statement from the Defence Ministry, which administers lands Israel captured in a 1967 war, said the…
Milo Yiannopoulos brags about causing mischief, but he might have gotten more than he bargained for last Friday night, when a protester at one of his events got shot outside the venue. The ‘alt-right’ fellow traveler and Breitbart tech editor was speaking at the University of Washington in Seattle, when an anti-fascist demonstrator Josh Dukes…
Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority is warning citizens to stay away from the shoreline near a power plant in Hadera, where around 150 sharks have gathered and attracted a bevy of thrill-seekers. “Encounters with sharks are uncontrollable and can endanger both the divers and the sharks,” the agency told the Algemeiner. “This means it is…
ROME (JTA) – Vandals defaced one of the “stumbling stone” Holocaust memorials unveiled last week in Milan, covering it with black paint. The vandalism was discovered Saturday by Ornella Coen, the daughter of Dante Coen, the person commemorated by the plaque, who was deported to Auschwitz and then killed at Buchenwald on April 4, 1945. “Stumbling stones,”…
BERLIN(JTA) – Non-Jewish Germans who have helped preserve local Jewish history, and interested young Germans in it, were honored at the 17th annual Obermayer German Jewish History Awards. Rolf Wieland, president of the Berlin House of Representatives, presented the awards – established by the late American philanthropist Arthur Obermayer – on Monday in the Berlin Senate. Virtually all awardees said they face…
(JTA) — A leader of the Simon Wiesenthal Center accused Israel of “abdicating its duty” to Holocaust survivors following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to mention the genocide in a statement about Croatia. The allegation Tuesday by Efraim Zuroff, a well-known Holocaust researcher, hunter of Nazis and head of the Center’s Eastern Europe operations, came…
(JTA) — A suicide bomb attack on the Brussels airport last year targeted Jews and people travelling to the United States, the French news service AFP reported. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the March 22, 2016 attack on the Brussels airport and a suicide bomb attack at a metro station in central Brussels which…
Linda Sarsour, a Muslim civil rights activist, is facing charges of anti-Semitism after she helped organize the Women’s March on Washington. “The anti-Semite who organized the ‘Women’s March on Washington,’” screamed a headline from David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine. The piece cited her opposition to Zionism, connection to family members who are supposedly imprisoned in…
Pope Francis is warning against growing populism in Europe — pointing out that similar nationalist sentiments led to the election of Adolf Hitler. “In times of crisis, we lack judgment,” the pontiff said in an interview with the Spanish outlet El Pais, according to an NBC translation. “The most obvious example of European populism is…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage financed the restoration of 21 historic gravestones at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. The gravestones were crafted before the World War II by Abraham Ostrzega, a Jewish artist murdered in 1942 in Treblinka. Among the restored gravestones are Mausoleum of the Three Writers –…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration has yet to decide on when — or possibly even whether — to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, its spokesman said. On Monday, a sequence of answers by Sean Spicer in his first Q&A with reporters as White House spokesman suggested that President Donald Trump may retreat from…
