BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The fathers of two AMIA Jewish center bombing victims have been named as plaintiffs in a case against former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, which could reopen the investigation of the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman into a cover-up of Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing. Nisman was found dead on…
— An Oberlin professor whose anti-Semitic social media posts outraged many alumni and faculty earlier this year has been placed on paid leave. Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric, will not teach any courses at the Ohio liberal arts school until an internal investigation is completed, Oberlin President Marvin Krislov announced, the Cleveland Jewish…
Eric Greitens, a Jewish former Navy SEAL, won the Republican Party primary for Missouri governor. Greitens, who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2007 and is the recipient of seven military awards including a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, defeated three opponents in Tuesday’s primary. He will face Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of Republican senators who visited Israel last week that he still supports a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Netanyahu stressed his support despite the fact that the Republican Party last month removed support for a two-state solution from its platform, the Times of Israel Wednesday citing…
The former boyfriend of the wife of a murdered law professor has said she should be considered a suspect, and now her family has made its first statement on the case, calling any family involvement “categorically false.” In July 2014, Florida State University professor Dan Markel was shot and killed with a bullet to the…
What do Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Julian Assange have in common? According to an article by Michael Weiss in The Daily Beast they share a sanguine attitude to Russian foreign policy and an enjoyment of anti-Semitic supporters. Weiss outlines the responses of Trump and Assange to Putin’s military and political incursions into Belarus and…
– The parents of Russian-Jewish actor Anton Yelchin are planning to sue Fiat Chrysler and its manufacturer over the wrongful death of their son. Yelchin, 27, who starred in the new “Star Trek” movies reboot, was found dead at his home in Studio City, California, on June 19 after being crushed by his 2015 Jeep…
— Six haredi Orthodox teachers were indicted for abusing and assaulting children at the Hasidic school in Tel Aviv where they worked. The teachers, all men, were indicted at Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday, the Times of Israel reported. One, Avraham Rosenfeld, 49, was also charged with sexually assaulting a child under 16, indecent…
JERUSALEM — Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, has been appointed deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office. The PMO announced the appointment, which also makes Oren head of public diplomacy, on Monday evening. Oren is part of the Kulanu Party, which joined the government after the elections in 2015. Oren served…
NETANYA, Israel (JTA) – Andrea Murez steps on the diving board, adjusts her goggles, swings her long arms and propels herself into the water at the Wingate Institute athletic complex here. Murez is training with a dozen other swimmers. She is the one preparing for the Summer Olympics a few weeks later. The 24-year-old Los…
U.S. journalist Jeffrey Goldberg stirred up a media dust storm in Israel after he tweeted that he might give up reading Haaretz. “I think I’m getting ready to leave Ha’aretz behind, actually,” Goldberg tweeted, including a link to an article in the left-leaning Israeli daily written by two American-Jewish historians who discuss why they have…
