— A British lawmaker who said Israel would eventually disappear accused the Jewish state of being a major cause in the rise of jihadism worldwide. Following the statement Thursday by Jenny Tonge, a House of Lords member from the Liberal Democrat party, the Board of Deputies of British Jews called on the party’s head to fire her….
Jerusalem’s gay pride parade kicked off on Thursday evening under massive security with 25,000 participants and 2,000 police officers on hand in the wake of a murderous rampage by an ultra-Orthodox assailant at last year’s parade. Police said that 30 people had been detained for questioning on Thursday, including at least two found with knives,…
— A large swastika was painted on a home in southern New Jersey. The swastika was discovered Wednesday morning in suburban Mount Laurel, about 17 miles from Philadelphia, the Jewish Exponent reported. Police believe the Nazi symbol was painted on the house sometime after 10 the night before. The family was not named, but a…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine federal judge investigating the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing has requested that Singapore and Malaysia arrest a high-level Iranian adviser to the country’s supreme leader in connection with the attack. Alí Akbar Velayati, who was Iran’s foreign minister at the time of the terrorist attack and has been implicated…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli general was indicted in the rape and sexual assault of two female subordinates four months after his promotion to a prominent post was canceled over the accusations. Brig.-Gen. Ofek Buchris, 47, was indicted Thursday by the Military Advocate General for the sexual offenses allegedly committed between 2010 and 2012. In March,…
(JTA) — On Wednesday, the Republican National Convention should have felt, well, conventional. Gone were B-list celebrities like Scott Baio and Willie Robertson. The crowd finally stopped chanting for the presumptive Democratic nominee to go to prison. And no one — at least as far as we know — plagiarized their speech. For once, the…
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman compared an Army Radio program on the works of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish to praising Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” The station, whose government funding has been questioned in recent weeks, has come under fire for broadcasting the program on Tuesday. Liberman at a meeting Thursday with Army Radio chief…
JERUSALEM — Yishai Schlissel, who is serving a life sentence for stabbing six marchers at last year’s Jerusalem Pride Parade and killing a 16-year-old, was arrested in prison for a violent plot against this year’s march. Israel Police cleared for release Thursday, hours before the scheduled start of the march, that Schlissel was arrested in…
(JTA) — An issue of historical concern to American Jews drew waves of applause when Donald Trump, Jr. preached about it Tuesday night from the stage of the Republican National Convention. It wasn’t Israel, Iran or the fight against anti-Semitism. It was a call for the government to assist with private school costs, referred to as…
Sheldon Adelson refused to meet with Ted Cruz after the conservative Texas senator failed to endorse Donald Trump in a controversial speech to the Republican convention, several media outlets reported. The billionaire Republican donor and his wife, Miriam, barred Cruz from the suite where they watched Cruz’s speech, which was greeted by boos, CNN first…
— Palestinian and Israeli officials are offering competing explanations for a fire that broke out next door to the West Bank home where three members of a Palestinian family were killed in an arosn attack by Jewish extremists. Reports of a fire early Wednesday morning near the house where three Palestinians were killed in last year’s firebombing…
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