Kurdish leaders encouraged Jews who once fled the region due to religious persecution to come back, after hosting the first-ever Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in the capital of the autonomous area in northern Iraq. “Jews would be surprised to find that they are freer and safer here than in certain European capitals,” Sherzad Omer Mamsani,…
WASHINGTON — Nine Jewish groups are among over 30 organizations backing a bill that would bar banning entry to the United States on the basis of religion, an initiative sparked by Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim entry. “Concerns about national security are mixing with unchecked anti-Muslim bigotry and fomenting unjust fear and scrutiny of…
An 11-year-old boy has been charged with hate crimes and police were searching for five other youths suspected of helping torch a school bus outside a Jewish school in Brooklyn, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said on Tuesday. Surveillance video showed six youths packing cardboard into the yellow school bus parked outside…
JERUSALEM — Israel will recognize its 23,477 fallen soldiers, as well as civilian victims of terror, with the start of Yom Hazikaron, or Memorial Day. The official number of soldiers, police and other security officials who have died since 1860 while defending Israel or prestate Israel was released Tuesday by the Defense Ministry. The number…
A journalist who was flooded last month with anti-Semitic death threats from Donald Trump supporters after writing a profile of the candidate’s wife has filed a police report over the harassment. Julia Ioffe, who is Jewish, filed a report on April 29 with Washington D.C. police claiming she was under threat of injury or kidnapping…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he threatened to send Israeli commandos into Cairo in 2011 to rescue a number of Israeli security staff besieged by demonstrators who had stormed the mission. Netanyahu’s remarks, at a ceremony in Israel’s Foreign Ministry to mark the country’s annual memorial day, added a new twist to…
(JTA) — Venezuela’s envoy to the United Nations called his Israeli colleague to apologize for his accusing Israel of seeking a “final solution” against the Palestinians, made a day after Holocaust Remembrance Day. “These are blunt anti-Semitic statements coming from the Venezuelan ambassador towards the Jewish nation,” said Ambassador Danny Danon, according to a statement by…
Long-running efforts to fully restore Israeli-Turkish ties strained after an Israeli raid of a Turkish boat in 2010 must now await the formation of a new government in Ankara, Israel’s top diplomat in Turkey said. Turkey downgraded diplomatic relations and ejected Israel’s ambassador in 2011, a year after Israeli commandos stormed the Mavi Marmara, part…
President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, will submit a filled-out questionnaire and other information to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to spur a vote on his nomination, the White House said. “The questionnaire and associated materials present an exhaustive picture of Judge Garland’s distinguished career and impeccable credentials as a…
JERUSALEM — Two elderly women were stabbed by two masked assailants while out for a walk on a popular promenade overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem in what is being called a terror attack. The women, reported to be in their 70s or 80s, were taken to a Jerusalem hospital in moderate condition with stab…
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s attendance at a Holocaust commemoration event last week inspired praise by many, but did not sit well with some in the Twittersphere, with some responding with virulently anti-Israel comments and even Holocaust denial. On Sunday, Mayor Khan, the London-born son of Pakistani immigrants and first Muslim mayor of London, tweeted: “So…
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