AMSTERDAM — The Dutch government made a special exception to its own pensions laws in order to keep paying its citizens living in the West Bank, a Dutch newspaper reported. The practice, which applies to several dozen Dutch citizens living in the West Bank, was revealed in a 4,000-word expose published on June 18 in NRC…
A group of Beit Shemesh women fighting to remove “modesty signs” plastered around their city won a key battle in court. The Jerusalem District Court gave Beit Shemesh Mayor Moshe Abutbul three weeks to remove the illegal signs and to act more vigilantly against offenders. Some of the signs instruct women how to dress, requiring…
WASHINGTON — Tensions between Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly were behind Lewandowski’s departure announced Monday by the campaign. On the same day, Lewandowski said separately that he stood by Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The New York Times first reported what it said was a firing, and CNN followed up by reporting that…
Anton Yelchin, a 27-year-old actor best known for playing the character Chekov in two “Star Trek” movies, was killed early on Sunday when his car rolled and pinned him against a wall in his driveway, police said. Russian-born Yelchin died shortly after 1 a.m. when he apparently stepped out of his car in the steep…
Now that Hillary Clinton has wrapped up the Democratic nomination, she can rest easy about Bernie Sanders backers and start worrying about Donald Trump, right? Not if Jill Stein of the Green Party has anything to say about it. Stein hopes to be the second Jewish thorn in Clinton’s left side, picking up where Sanders…
— A Pennsylvania man identified as Jewish in a federal lawsuit against the Amish church has been charged with the sexual assault of a teen who was “gifted” to him by her parents, who were suing their former church. Police found 12 girls aged 18 years to 6 months in the Lower Southampton home of…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli nongovernmental organization that advocates for the settlements is pressing British voters to vote to leave the European Union. The push for Brexit, or a British exit from the EU, is meant to punish Britain for its move toward a pro-Palestinian stand, Meir Deutsch, director of policy and government relations for Regavim,…
Hungarian soccer fans are reportedly being investigated for performing Nazi salutes during a match at the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France. Black-shirted Hungary fans were captured making the salutes during their national team’s match with Iceland on Saturday in Marseille, the British Daily Mail newspaper reported.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3648911/Now-Ultra-fans-caught-doing-NAZI-salutes-Euro-2016-Hungarian-supporters-sick-gestures-match-saw-fans-battle-stewards-stands.html) “The pictures are clearly very shocking,” a police…
RIO DE JANEIRO — A court in Guatemala indicted the ex-mayor of a small town in the Central American nation for “participating in the expulsion of a religious community.” Antonio Adolfo Perez y Perez of San Juan La Laguna was charged with abuse of authority and discrimination and sentenced to house arrest, the local newspaper Prensa…
Republican Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States should consider more racial profiling in law enforcement, after urging harsher policies following last week’s mass shooting in Orlando. “I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said when asked on CBS whether he supported more…
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Cabinet approved an additional $18.6 million for West Bank settlements to help defray the costs of their “unique security situation,” spurring one Palestinian leader to say Israel “openly supports apartheid.” On Sunday at its weekly meeting, the government approved a budgetary supplement that includes stipends for local councils in the West Bank…
