Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte likened himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would “be happy” to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country. His comments triggered shock and anger among Jewish groups in the United States, which will add to pressure on the U.S. government to take a…
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton spoke with Jewish supporters in a Rosh Hashanah-themed get out the vote call, urging them to help her build “a country consistent with our best selves.” “The High Holy Days are a time to reflect on the last year take a hard look at personal and collective priorities and ask ourselves…
President Barack Obama and other world leaders gathered in Israel on Friday for the funeral of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli prime minister and president whose pursuit of an elusive peace with the Palestinians won international embrace. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also planned to attend the burial, which will be held in the “Great Leaders…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands and exchanged brief words at the funeral on Friday of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli leader who won international acclaim for peacemaking with the Palestinians. U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders gathered for the burial in Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery, two…
Donald Trump issued a statement Wednesday expressing his condolences for the death of Israel’s former president Shimon Peres. “He was a consummate statesman, a distinguished patriot and a friend of peace-loving people everywhere,” Trump said. But he wasn’t a friend of Trump’s. In one of his last interviews, on Bloomberg TV, Peres made clear that…
— The Reconstructionist movement will open a film- and arts-based camp in Southern California, a branch of its Camp JRF. The new camp is being started with a $1.4 million grant over four years from the specialty camps incubator of the Foundation for Jewish Camp. The camp, which will be geared to third- though 10th-graders,…
Breitbart News attacked Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, calling her a “Polish, Jewish, American elitist” and accusing her of having “global media contacts,” a common anti-Semitic screed. The gratuitous nod to Applebaum’s Jewishness came in a 1,400-word article published Tuesday titled “WaPo’s Anne Applebaum Embarks On Kremlin-Style Disinformation Offensive vs. the Anti-Globalist Right.” According to…
— Fifteen human rights and religious organizations called on President Barack Obama to investigate the killing of a Palestinian-American teenager by Israeli soldiers earlier this year. In the letter sent Wednesday to Obama, the groups also asked the president to demand that Israel release evidence related to its investigation of the death of 16-year-old Mahmoud Shaalan. Shaalan was shot in…
— A senior activist in Britain’s Labour Party who is close to controversial party leader Jeremy Corbyn questioned why Holocaust Remembrance Day is only about Jews. Jackie Walker also questioned the need for security at Jewish institutions, suggesting that anti-Semitism is not behind any attacks, during a workshop organized by the Jewish Labour Movement at the…
— Anti-Semitic fliers were placed on car windshields in parking lots located at Bay Area Rapid Transit stations. The fliers were discovered on Tuesday evening, the NBC Bay Area affiliate reported. The fliers called the Jewish community “serpents” and called for separating Jews from children, NBC reported. The fliers are believed to have been printed and…
) — A settlement has been reached in a case that focused on control of the $500 million Koret Foundation, that pitted its founder’s widow, Susan Koret, against its former president and current board member, Tad Taube. The settlement was approved on Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, J., the Jewish news weekly of Northern…
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