— An Orthodox Jewish woman has sued Dallas County for allegedly rescinding a job offer over her Shabbat observance. Isabel Balderas filed her lawsuit Wednesday in district court, the Dallas Morning News reported, and is seeking $100,000 to $1 million in damages. Balderas said she told the sheriff’s office that because of her observance, she…
JERUSALEM — The parents of Michael Levin, a lone soldier from the United States who was killed in the Second Lebanon War, returned to Israel to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. Mark and Harriet Levin of Philadelphia traveled to Mount Herzl on Thursday to mark their son’s yahrzeit. They were joined by other…
— France condemned Israel’s demolition of buildings constructed with French funding in a Palestinian village in the West Bank. The demolition of agricultural installations in Nebi Samuel last week was the third time this year that buildings funded by French humanitarian aid were demolished or confiscated by Israeli authorities, Reuters quoted a French foreign ministry spokesman…
— Iraqi intellectuals decried the demolition of a historical building that used to be the home of a Jewish finance minister as a “catastrophe” against historical preservation. The 19th-century villa of Yechezkel Sasson on A-Rashid Street in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was bulldozed last Friday even though it was earmarked for preservation as a historical monument, the…
— The Anti-Defamation League condemned the actions of a former teacher at a prestigious Catholic school in Belgium, whose caricature comparing Israel and the Nazis won a prize in Iran’s cartoon contest mocking the Holocaust. “Malice or ignorance” were the teacher’s “only possible explanations for comparing Israel to the Nazis and entering an Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest,”…
— Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, lost a bid to overturn restrictive probation conditions imposed when he was released in November after 30 years in prison. US District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan on Thursday denied a challenge by Pollard to requirements imposed by the US Parole…
— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly turned down an American request that he meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in a bid to jump-start peace talks. Secretary of State John Kerry made the request of Abbas at their July meeting in Paris, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported Thursday. Abbas refused the meeting,…
Vietnam has secretly fortified several of the islands it claims in the disputed South China Sea region with new mobile rocket launchers purchased from Israel, according to Western officials. Foreign officials and military analysts believe the launchers form part of Vietnam’s Israeli state-of-art EXTRA rocket artillery system. The launchers have been hidden from aerial surveillance…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The only unidentified fatality of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center here has been named. Augusto Daniel Jesus was identified as the victim with more than 99.99 percent certainty based on an analysis of DNA taken from the body and from his mother, according to the Argentina government’s AMIA…
BERLIN — Did a premier Berlin hotel cross Israel off its phone list? That’s what French Jewish filmmaker Claude Lanzmann claims. His assertion has provoked a storm of controversy and drawn a firm denial from Hotel Bristol Kempinski. Writing for the newspapers Le Figaro in Paris and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt, Lanzmann, the famed director of “Shoah” and…
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli with a screwdriver in eastern Jerusalem, police said. The Jewish victim, 18, was moderately hurt with several stab wounds to the upper body, the Magen David Adom rescue service said in a statement. The attack occurred near the Jewish settlement of Beit Hoshen and the Palestinian village of…
שבֿע צוקער פֿירט דעם שמועס מיט וויווי לאַקס און ביידע לייענען פֿאָר עטלעכע פֿעליעטאָנען פֿון יענע צײַטן.
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