JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces soldier who shot and killed a Palestinian man who charged a West Bank guard post and ignored warnings to stop is being investigated for negligent manslaughter. The soldier, a member of the haredi Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion, was questioned under caution as a suspect in a crime on Sunday,…
Barbra Streisand is threatening to take her talents Down Under if the Donald is elected president. Saying she was “astounded” by Trump’s support, the iconic singer vowed to move to Australia or Canada if he wins the race to the White House, the Times of Israel reported, quoting Australian TV station. “He has no facts….
— Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson told Donald Trump in a private meeting that the Republican presidential candidate must demonstrate a measure of humility, The New York Times [reported](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump.html?_r=0 es “”). Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate, also told Trump in the meeting last week in Adelson’s suite at the St. Regis Hotel in New York that…
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, a former Labor Party leader and defense minister who served in the Knesset for 30 years, has died. Ben Eliezer, who withdrew from the country’s presidential election in 2014 over corruption charges, died Sunday in a Tel Aviv hospital. He was 80. Known by the nickname “Fouad,” Ben-Eliezer served in the Knesset…
JERUSALEM — Haredi Orthodox parties in Israel are threatening to leave the ruling coalition and bring down the government over the construction of a Tel Aviv train station on the Jewish Sabbath. Late Saturday night, the heads of the religious parties demanded a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and issued calls for him to…
A top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Monday that she was separating from her husband, a former U.S. congressman who resigned after a sex scandal. “After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” Huma Abedin said in a statement…
Weeks after Muslim women in Nice were asked to remove their conservative “burkini” swimwear, a bikini-clad performer in Ashdod, Israel was asked to cover up. According to news reports, Hanna Goor, a musician and former contestant of the Israeli reality show “A Star is Born” was singing at a festival organized by the Culture Ministry…
An ex-wife of Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said he made anti-Semitic remarks during a fight over the education of their two daughters. According to court papers dated to 2007, ex-wife Mary Louise Piccard said Bannon didn’t want their daughters to go to an elite Los Angeles school because he “didn’t want the…
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly being urged to cancel upcoming elections in the West Bank and Gaza for fear that his Fatah party will be trounced in them. Citing Channel 2 television, the Times of Israel reported Friday that Fatah officials are worried the party’s more militant rival, the terrorist group Hamas, could…
An online library containing hundreds of Dutch-language books by Jewish authors has registered its 8,000th download. The milestone was reached earlier this year, according to the director of Crescas, Dutch Jewry’s main cultural organization, which set up five years ago a digital book collection that grew into one of the Netherlands’ largest websites of its…
Thirteen Jewish graves were damaged as headstones were smashed and knocked over Friday at a municipal cemetery in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Police were called Friday afternoon to the scene, where smashed pieces of glass could be found atop overturned headstones. Eight young people are said to have carried out the attack with hammers and…
שבֿע צוקער פֿירט דעם שמועס מיט וויווי לאַקס און ביידע לייענען פֿאָר עטלעכע פֿעליעטאָנען פֿון יענע צײַטן.
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