— A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor has officially become a U.S. citizen in order to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Menia Perelman of South Florida, who arrived in the United States at the age of 84, told local media that she wanted to become a citizen so she could vote in the November election. She…
NEW YORK — Five pitchers combined on a four-hitter and Israel slammed three home runs in a 9-1 victory over Great Britain in the championship game of the World Baseball Classic qualifier in Brooklyn, earning its first bid to the international tournament. Israel took a no-hitter into the eighth inning in Sunday’s game at MUA…
(JTA) — Hillary Clinton said she opposed any U.N. Security Council bid to impose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just hours after a summit between the Israeli leader and Donald Trump. Netanyahu’s meetings with the Democratic nominee and, earlier Sunday, with her Republican rival were…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for remarks which seemed to compare the suffering of the family of the family of a soldier on trial for manslaughter and the parents of fallen soldiers. Netanyahu on Saturday night told Israel’s Channel 2 that he did not regret calling the family of Elor Azaria, who shot a…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with the U.S. presidential nominees from the major parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Netanyahu, who is in the United States to attend the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, will meet the nominees in New York on Sunday, a day before their first debate. The meetings…
The Rabbinical Council of America will mandate its member rabbis to require couples to sign a prenuptial agreement ensuring that husbands will not withhold a get, or Jewish writ of divorce, from their wives. The agreement, commonly referred to as a “halakhic prenup,” generally penalizes the husband financially for refusing to give the get. Rabbi…
The “Quartet” of Middle East peace mediators said on Friday it was strongly opposed to Israel’s ongoing settlement activity, warning that it risked ending the chance of a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Peace talks, envisaging a Palestinian state in territory Israel captured in a 1967 war, collapsed two years ago after nine months of…
— The Rabbinic Council of American has slammed the Chief Rabbinate of Israel for rejecting four conversions approved by a prominent Orthodox American rabbi without providing explanations. The haredi Orthodox-dominated rabbinate rejected the conversions approved by Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, according to documents obtained by Haaretz. Since 1991, Schwartz has been the chief presiding judge of the National…
Team Israel rallied for four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and went on to defeat Great Britain, 5-2, in its opener of the World Baseball Classic qualifying tournament on Thursday night. Israel’s decisive inning included four hits, two walks and two sacrifice flies to erase a 2-1 deficit at MCU Park on…
— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of Israel’s private sector met with African leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss Israeli innovations in Africa and developing countries. Taking place Thursday after Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly, where he boasted about his visit this summer to four African countries, the event featured…
(JTA) — A new study, touted as the first-ever state-by-state, county-by-county Jewish population estimate, shows how the Jewish vote could play a crucial role in key battleground states. The study, released Thursday and conducted by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University in suburban Boston, found that in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — one of…
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