Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will take a break from the campaign and travel to Israel with her husband Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres. President Barack Obama, as well as Secretary of State John Kerry, also will attend the funeral of Israel’s ninth president scheduled for Friday morning at the Mount…
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told rabbis in a pre-High Holidays call that Jews should share their story of working to advance civil rights as a means of inspiring change at a time of racial tensions. Obama spoke Monday with over 600 rabbis from the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist movements. His tone on the…
— Jewish groups in Israel, the United States and around the world lauded former Israeli president Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday, as a respected leader and a warrior for peace. “Peres was always driven by a deep sense of responsibility toward the entire Jewish people. He concerned himself with the fate and future of…
Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres, 93, died in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, prompting U.S. President Barack Obama to mourn: “A light has gone out, but the hope he gave us will burn forever.” Peres, an indefatigable campaigner for Middle East peace who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, was hospitalized…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was aware of and supported a plan to close lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 in an act of political payback, a key prosecution witness testified Tuesday at the criminal trial of two former Christie associates. David Wildstein, a former executive at the Port Authority of New York…
— A Jewish Labour Party member in England was heckled and applauded in a speech condemning a recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in his party. At the party’s conference on Tuesday in Liverpool, the national vice-chair of the Jewish Labour Movement invoked a former Jewish Labour defense minister by name in an impassioned plea against party bigotry. “It makes…
— Joseph Sitruk, who served as chief rabbi of France for more than two decades, has died. Sitruk died Sunday after being hospitalized for several days following a stroke, The Times of Israel reported. He was 71. French President Francois Hollande called the Orthodox religious leader a “defender of secularism” in a statement announcing his death, according…
The condition of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres has reportedly deteriorated rapidly in the past day. The 93-year-old liberal icon had been stable since suffering a severe stroke on Sept. 13. But in recent hours he has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, the Times of Israel reported.. The paper quoted Channel 10 news as…
— A Brooklyn construction worker was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Hasidic real estate developer Menachem Stark. Kendel Felix, 28, faces 25 years to life in prison for the murder of Stark, whose body was found on Jan. 3, 2014, in a dumpster on suburban Long Island some 16 miles from his Brooklyn office…
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet following the first U.S. presidential debate that as far as Israel is concerned, it does not matter who is elected. “They both spoke of their support for Israel and the importance of bilateral relations between our two countries,” he said Tuesday at the start of…
— The four Danish citizens accused of assisting the gunman in two deadly attacks in Copenhagen last year, including one outside a Copenhagen synagogue that left a Jewish security guard dead, were acquitted. The Danish court on Tuesday found that the actions of the four men were “not of such a character that the actions…
