RIO DE JANEIRO — Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced he will send to Congress a signed agreement with Israel that will enhance his country’s armed forces in an unprecedented way in order to fight organized crime. “I am sending to Congress a very important agreement with the State of Israel, which is pivotal to…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Venezuela’s umbrella Jewish organization slammed the anti-Semitic cover of a weekly magazine, which associates Jewish icons with illicit activities, illegal money exchange and a governmental agency. The Confederation of Jewish Associations of Venezuela, or CAIV, sent a letter to the editor of “Las Verdades de Miguel,” or “The Truths of Miguel”…
— Lou Pearlman, who formed and managed the boy bands Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, died while serving a 25-year prison sentence for a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Pearlman, who suffered a stroke in prison in 2010, died Friday in the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas. He was 62. He had been projected to be released in 2029 after…
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and tanks responded by shelling the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the army and police said. The rocket caused no injuries or damage in Sderot, where it landed in a residential area,…
— The wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish father, according to a new document discovered in the Berlin archives. The document was published in the German newspaper Bild, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. It shows that the father of Magda Goebbels was a Jewish businessman named Richard Friedlander, who married Magda’s…
— A fire that destroyed the house of an Orthodox Jewish couple in Houston left one dead and one in critical condition in the hospital. Firefighters were called to the house of Eva Lou and Julius Chapman by neighbors at about 7:45 p.m. Friday, and found it engulfed in flames. The badly burned body of…
As he, acclaimed indie rocker (and gender nonconforming Shabbat-observant Jew) Ezra Furman isn’t shy about expressing his Jewishness in his music. But he just released his most explicitly Jewish song yet. Furman told Consequence of Sound that “The Refugee,” which he uploaded to the SoundCloud music streaming site on Wednesday, is his “first song entirely concerned…
— The Anti-Defamation League praised Twitter after the social media platform announced that it has suspended more than 300,000 accounts that have violated policies related to the promotion of terrorism. Earlier this year, Twitter announced it had suspended more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for violating its prohibition on violent threats and the promotion of terrorism. On…
— Jordan won its first-ever Olympic medal thanks to the performance of a Palestinian taekwondo fighter whose family left Israel 20 years ago. Abu Ghoush, who was born in Jordan, received a call from Jordan’s King Abdullah II, who congratulated him on winning gold Thursday at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. In addition…
A recent Brandeis University study titled “Connection, not Proficiency: Survey of Hebrew at North American Jewish Summer Camps” examines how Hebrew is incorporated into Jewish summer camps. The university polled directors across 103 camps. It is part of a larger study called “Hebrew At North American Jewish Summer Camps” that will be turned into a…
–Members of the tiny Jewish community of Macedonia and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee distributed hundreds of aid packages to victims of deadly floods that forced thousands out of their homes in the Balkan nation. The Joint, or JDC, along with the Jewish Community of the Republic of Macedonia and the Holocaust Fund of…
