Dave Schwartz, the beloved long-time meteorologist for the Weather Channel, succumbed to cancer on Saturday July 30, according to an announcement on weather.com. The 63-year-old Philadelphia native had beaten previous bouts of cancer over a ten year period. In 2006 he was diagnosed with stage 2 pancreatic cancer and a Whipple procedure was not able…
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man who attempted to stab Israeli soldiers monitoring a West Bank checkpoint was shot and killed by the troops. The man arrived Sunday at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus in a private car and parked it near Israeli soldiers there. He then left the car and ran toward the soldiers while…
JERUSALEM — Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot arrived in the United States to meet with his U.S. counterpart. Eizenkot traveled to the U.S. on Sunday for an “official work visit” with U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, the IDF said in a statement. Eizenkot also is…
— Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders referenced his family’s Jewish history in condemning GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s attack on the parents of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq. “I’m Jewish. My father’s family died in concentration camps. I will do everything I can to rid this country of the ugly stain of…
— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in Paris with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. During Saturday afternoon’s meeting, the two leaders “discussed regional challenges and constructive ideas for the way forward to support our shared goal of a two-state solution,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement. “Secretary Kerry stressed the…
With 99 days to go to the General Election there’s a temporary lull in the frenzy of political speculation and action that has accompanied the campaigns since last October. One of the loudest questions being asked on this day — though presumably few days hereafter — is who designed Hillary Clinton’s statement white pantsuit? The…
Schindler’s list is famous, his later life not so much. A letter from Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews during the war, describing his post-war financial and personal plight is up for sale for in excess of $30,000 from [Moments in Time.}(http://momentsintime.com/oskar-schindler-writes-i-ask-myself-if-its-even-worth-living/#.V50ge-srKHs%22) After the war Schindler tried to relocate to…
(JTA) — Human cruelty “did not end in Auschwitz,” Pope Francis said. In Krakow, following his historic visit to the Nazi death camp in Poland Friday, the pope compared contemporary atrocities around the world to the atrocities in Auschwitz, The Associated Press reported. Citing torture and overcrowded prisons, the pope said, “We say, yes, there…
— A New Jersey housing community with a majority haredi Orthodox population is angering some homeowners with its stepped-up gender-segregated swimming pool hours. In yet another example of tensions between the Lakewood area’s growing haredi Orthodox population and non-Orthodox residents, several non-Jewish residents at A Country Place are speaking out about the housing complex’s swimming…
NEW YORK — An expert witness said that the man indicted in the 2014 murder of a controversial Hasidic Brooklyn real estate developer may have been coerced into giving a false confession. Kendel Felix, who is accused of participating in the kidnapping and murder of 39-year-old Menachem Stark, has the psychological profile of others who have made…
The mother of slain Jewish intern Chandra Levy said she was sickened by the news that prosecutors have cleared the man convicted in her 2001 murder. “I am totally in a state of shock,” she told KCRA, a television station in her hometown of Modesto, California. “I am sick to my stomach and am having…
