Belgium’s defense ministry denied reports that some soldiers had guarded synagogues in Brussels without ammunition in their rifles. The denial last week by the press department of Belgium’s Ministry of Defense was in reaction to a claim that a senior Brussels rabbi, Menachem Hadad of the Shomre Hadas haredi Orthodox community, made on March 24…
A Dutch bank refused to release details about an account allegedly used by an impostor Jewish physician to scam $300,000 from an investor. Jan Jozef Rolsma filed with a Dutch court Wednesday a request for an injunction to force ING Bank to disclose the identity of the holder of the account, which he said was…
The two ultra-Orthodox parties in the Israeli government, Shas and United Torah Judaism, are planning to sponsor legislation to block implementation of last week’s High Court ruling that recognized private Orthodox conversions in Israel. It would also block recognition of conversions performed under auspices of the Reform and Conservative movements. The court ruling relates to…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Jewish leaders here reportedly to smooth ties as Turkey and Israel seek to reconcile. Jewish groups in attendance included the Anti-Defamation League, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish…
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly asked John Kerry to publicly state that Israel does not carry out extrajudicial killings, after a group of U.S. lawmakers asked the secretary of state to investigate such claims. Meanwhile, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the lead lawmaker making the request, Netanyahu for his initial response to the…
(JTA) — A man who allegedly sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti inside a residential building in the upstate New York Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. New York State Police on Thursday arrested James Blazeski, 24. He was arraigned in the Village of Monroe Court and remanded to Orange County jail, where he…
(JTA) — Hamas said for the first time that it is holding two Israeli men and the remains of two Israeli soldiers. The Islamist group’s military wing released a televised statement Friday through official Hamas media, . The statement said the group is demanding Israeli concessions in exchange for information about the condition of the “four…
(JTA)— More than 4,000 people participated in a Bethlehem marathon designed to highlight travel restrictions imposed on Palestinians by Israel. First conceived in 2013, the fourth annual “Right to Movement” marathon set out Friday from the Church of the Nativity past Israel’s security barrier, which cuts around much of the city, before passing Duheisha refugee camp…
(JTA)— The founder of a private Muslim school in northern England published anti-Semitic leaflets featuring the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a British television channel reported. The Sky News report Thursday about Mufti Zubair Dudha, founder and head of the Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury, said the institution of 140 pupils is rare among…
(Editor’s note: This is an updated post to The Forward’s original publication of a JTA story about the Associated Press and its use of photos supplied by Nazi propagandists.) The Associated Press has issued a full-throated defense against a historian’s accusations that its photographers worked closely with Adolf Hitler’s regime during World War II. The…
The Palestinian Authority is “on the brink of collapse,” its president, Mahmoud Abbas, told Israeli TV. In an interview with Channel 2 broadcast Thursday night, Abbas also warned of “chaos” if the security cooperation between the P.A. and Israel stops. “There will be rifles and explosions and armed militants everywhere,” Abbas said, according to i24news….
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