There were a few wobbles here and there, even for Simone Biles, but those imperfections could not stop the United States from blowing away the opposition to capture the Olympic women’s team title with a record margin on Tuesday. Dubbing themselves the ‘Final Five’, Biles, Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian proved…
WASHINGTON ) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, responding after Donald Trump said gun rights advocates could do something about Hillary Clinton, likened the political atmosphere in the United States to the period before an assassin killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “I instantly thought about Rabin and Israel,” Malloy, a Democrat like Clinton, the party’s…
Wikileaks has announced that it will give $20,000 for information on the killer of Seth Rich, the DNC staffer who was killed in Washington, D.C. on July 10. The “guerilla journalism” organization, known for, most recently, leaking several thousand emails from the Democratic National Committee, posted its reward offer on Twitter on August 9. ANNOUNCE:…
Yarden Gerbi became the first Israeli to medal at the Rio Olympics, bringing home a bronze in the women’s 63-kg judo competition. Gerbi defeated Miku Tashiro of Japan on Tuesday for Israel’s first Olympic medal since the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. “The medal is for all of Israel, for everyone who supported me and cheered…
David Friedman, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Jerusalem and met with senior officials from the Prime Minister’s Office. According to a report in Haaretz, a senior government official told the newspaper that Friedman had sought the meeting and that to maintain balance, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had traveled…
Parry Mitchell, a Jewish member of Britain’s House of Lords, said he will resign if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected as Labour Party leader. Writing Tuesday in The Times of London, Mitchell said a report which found that anti-Semitism is not endemic in Britain’s Labour Party was an “insipid whitewash” and vowed to leave the party…
A 24-year-old Jewish woman from the West Bank settlement of Yizhar was charged with incitement for online comments in support of attacks on Israeli soldiers and Arabs. Eliraz Fein was arrested two years ago for participating in an online discussion in which she said it was permissible under Jewish law to use potentially lethal force…
A Palestinian husband and wife who helped a Jewish family following a deadly terrorist attack in July are looking for work in Israel after being fired for assisting Jews. Yochai Damari, the head of the Har Hebron Regional Council, in a Facebook post Sunday called on the Defense Ministry to procure work permits in Israel…
JERUSALEM — Israel razed five buildings in the West Bank constructed without permits, including three built by the European Union. Forces from the Civil Administration tore down the buildings Tuesday in a Bedouin village near Hebron. A day earlier, three others were razed near Jericho. The buildings taken down Tuesday housed 27 Palestinians, including 16…
Street art became anti-Semitic graffiti in Washington, D.C. for the third time in one week after vandals wrote “Jew” on images of rats meant to evoke the Chinese Zodiac. On Monday morning, Twitter user Michael Villafranca noticed that a graffiti of a Chinese Zodiac rat with the word “Jew” on it had reappeared on the…
A Belgian Muslim official in charge of promoting tolerance apologized for his vitriol against Israel, which he said was a modern Nazi Germany and “an identical twin” of the Islamic State terrorist group. Youssef Kobo, the adviser on diversity for the minister in charge of equal opportunity in the regional government of Brussels, said he…
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