(JTA) — On Wednesday, the Republican National Convention should have felt, well, conventional. Gone were B-list celebrities like Scott Baio and Willie Robertson. The crowd finally stopped chanting for the presumptive Democratic nominee to go to prison. And no one — at least as far as we know — plagiarized their speech. For once, the…
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman compared an Army Radio program on the works of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish to praising Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” The station, whose government funding has been questioned in recent weeks, has come under fire for broadcasting the program on Tuesday. Liberman at a meeting Thursday with Army Radio chief…
JERUSALEM — Yishai Schlissel, who is serving a life sentence for stabbing six marchers at last year’s Jerusalem Pride Parade and killing a 16-year-old, was arrested in prison for a violent plot against this year’s march. Israel Police cleared for release Thursday, hours before the scheduled start of the march, that Schlissel was arrested in…
(JTA) — An issue of historical concern to American Jews drew waves of applause when Donald Trump, Jr. preached about it Tuesday night from the stage of the Republican National Convention. It wasn’t Israel, Iran or the fight against anti-Semitism. It was a call for the government to assist with private school costs, referred to as…
Sheldon Adelson refused to meet with Ted Cruz after the conservative Texas senator failed to endorse Donald Trump in a controversial speech to the Republican convention, several media outlets reported. The billionaire Republican donor and his wife, Miriam, barred Cruz from the suite where they watched Cruz’s speech, which was greeted by boos, CNN first…
— Palestinian and Israeli officials are offering competing explanations for a fire that broke out next door to the West Bank home where three members of a Palestinian family were killed in an arosn attack by Jewish extremists. Reports of a fire early Wednesday morning near the house where three Palestinians were killed in last year’s firebombing…
On a night marked by discord, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called for religious freedom and blasted the Iran nuclear deal in a controversial speech. Cruz, Trump’s runner-up during the Republican primary, got booed for refusing to endorse Trump, and for barely even mentioning the nominee in a speech that centered on the importance of conservative…
A fashion student in London has proposed making a leather handbag made from Alexander McQueen’s skin. Its echoes of rumored Nazi atrocities have been enough to provoke controversy. “Lampshade” traces the rumors of a human skin lampshade referred to succinctly in Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus,” in which she wrote about “skin/ Bright as a Nazi…
Israel and the Republic of Guinea, a predominantly Muslim nation in Africa, have renewed diplomatic relations after 49 years. Dore Gold, the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Affairs ministry, the chief of staff of the Guinean President’s Office, Dr. Ibrahim Khalil Kaba, signed a joint statement on Wednesday in Paris announcing the renewal of ties. Guinea…
JERUSALEM — The family of the man who went on a deadly stabbing spree at last year’s Jerusalem Pride parade has been banned from the city during this year’s march after being detained by police. The brother of Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six marchers at last year’s parade, killing a 16-year-old girl, was arrested Wednesday…
— A former JCC camp counselor in suburban Detroit charged with creating and distributing child pornography has entered into a plea agreement. In the case of Matthew Kuppe, 21, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office told the Detroit News she could not discuss the agreement. The spokeswoman, Gina Balaya, did confirm an Aug. 4…
