Israeli Supreme Court justices chastised the government for not implementing the government’s plan to create an ecumenical prayer section at the Western Wall. Monday’s hearing was in response to a 3-year-old petition complaining about the treatment of egalitarian worshippers at the site. At the hearing, the justices called for the plan to be implemented. The…
— J Street has called on the U.S Treasury Department to review the tax-deductibility status of groups that support settlement activity in the West Bank. The liberal Jewish Middle East policy group in a statement posted on its website and sent to journalists pointed out that the United States has “consistently opposed the construction and expansion…
JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem synagogue was vandalized with black crosses spray painted on its outside walls. The vandal attack occurred on Sunday night at a synagogue in the Katamon neighborhood in southern Jerusalem. The synagogue notified police of the possible hate crime on Monday morning. Police have opened an investigation into the incident. A police spokesman…
(JTA) — “Crazy Eddie” Antar, whose chain of eponymous electronics retail stores was a business and cultural phenomenon before he landed in jail on fraud charges, died Saturday at age 68. A cause of death was not disclosed. The grandson of Syrian Jewish immigrants, Antar advertised his chain with a series of antic late-night television…
Greta Zimmer Friedman, the Jewish refugee whose Times Square kiss from a sailor on the day World War II ended became an iconic photo, has died. Friedman, who had been living at an assisted living facility in northern Virginia, died Sept. 8, CBS reported, quoting her son, Joseph Friedman. She was 92. She will be…
Alan Gross, imprisoned for five years in Cuba for his efforts to assist its Jewish community, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, citing in part her commitment to the Obama administration’s new openness to Cuba. “I support her commitment to continue and improve our new Cuba policy,” Gross, who was arrested in 2009 for distributing internet…
A private school in Australia said allowing a student to dress up as Adolf Hitler while students from a Jewish school visited was “an innocent mistake.” The Jewish students were present at an assembly on Wednesday when the boy was given a “best dressed” award for his Nazi costume, which a teacher at the private…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Facebook saying that calls for a Palestinian state without Jews amount to “ethnic cleansing.” “[T]he Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one pre-condition: No Jews,” Netanyahu says in the video, released Friday. “There’s a phrase for that: It’s called ethnic cleansing. And this demand is…
Is it an original fundraising idea, or a dip into partisanship? The American Jewish Congress is offering its supporters a bumper sticker bearing the slogan “Jews for Trump” or “Jews for Hillary” in return for a $10 minimum contribution to the organization. “We will share the number of bumper stickers of each candidate with members…
(JTA) — In third grade, Ryan Levine participated in an after-school workshop on filmmaking — and he’s been hooked ever since. The 13-year-old loves getting together with his friends to act out their favorite scenes from “Star Wars,” and then editing the footage and adding on special effects. “I like how you could be really…
On Wednesday, a high-end children’s clothing retailer, had a very specific return policy: Customers could return non-sale items for a full refund — except for residents of five communities in New York and New Jersey, all of which have a significant Orthodox population. Those living in those zip codes, which include Brooklyn and Passaic, New Jersey, could exchange unworn…
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