— The Jewish school board president in a Pennsylvania town that has canceled the invocation at its high school commencement following controversial remarks by a student at last year’s ceremony said he is not “anti-Christian.” Rick Rabinowitz was the first to raise objections with the Pottsgrove school administration following the 2015 ceremony in which the student…
JERUSALEM ) — The second Palestinian in a March stabbing attack against Israeli soldiers in Hebron also was executed after being downed with minor injuries, the B’Tselem human rights organization claims. According to a statement issued Monday by the Israeli group, Ramzi al-Qasrawi was executed with a shot to the head after he was down…
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts have been resecured, a spokesman from the social media platform said on Monday, responding to questions about weekend media reports that the founder’s sites had been hacked. Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were compromised over the weekend, according to a report on Sunday from technology news…
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged in a statement from his office that he received $40,000 from a French businessman on trial for fraud. The statement said that Netanyahu received $40,000 in 2001 from Arnaut Mimran, when Netanyahu was a private citizen and traveling for public diplomacy. Mimran last month told a Paris court,…
Ukraine’s state security service said on Monday a French citizen detained in late May on the Ukrainian-Polish border had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting. On Saturday the Ukrainian border guard service reported the unnamed 25-year-old had been arrested with an arsenal of weapons and…
PRISTINA — The Jewish community of Kosovo is in discussions with the country’s authorities to establish a synagogue or Jewish community center. Jewish community representatives have recently held discussions with the government and with municipal authorities in Pristina, the Balkan country’s capital and largest city, and in Prizren, the historical town where much of the…
— A Swedish nun who saved Jewish families from the Nazis during the Holocaust was made a saint. Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad was canonized on Sunday by Pope Francis during a ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. She becomes the first Swedish saint in more than 600 years. Hesselblad converted to Catholicism after being…
The Jerusalem Day flag march in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City took off in relative calm on Sunday evening, following earlier concerns of friction between Jewish revelers and local Arab residents. No altercations were reported, and a few Muslim-owned shops on Hagai Street, a main thoroughfare in the Old City, remained opened….
— An Israeli man convicted of murdering his two American-Israeli children in 2014 was sentenced to back-to-back life sentences. The sentence against Avi Levy was announced Sunday in Lod District Court. He was convicted last month despite his plea of temporary insanity, the Times of Israel reported. Levy refused to testify during his trial in the killings…
— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement. The order signed Sunday, hours before the start of New York’s annual Celebrate Israel Parade, will require state agencies to divest themselves of companies and organizations aligned with the BDS movement. Cuomo said at the signing at…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Jewish Theatre in Warsaw was closed at the request of the district construction supervisor office. The official reason given for the on Friday night is the poor physical condition of the building. For the past several months, however, a private developer who wants to build an office skyscraper in the building’s…
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