(JTA) — During the five-plus years of Syria’s civil war, Israel has striven to stay neutral — supporting neither the government of President Bashar Assad nor the rebels, and certainly not the Islamic State. But on one issue, senior Israeli politicians have gladly taken sides: Israel keeping the Golan Heights. Facing reports of an international…
An unnamed American Jewish tourist was detained for praying on the Temple Mount. Israel Police escorted the man from the site on Sunday after he was heard quoting in Hebrew from a psalm. He had been speaking in English about a biblical verse when he said in Hebrew “Please, God, save us, Please God, give…
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders has undeniably earned a place in history as “the first Jewish presidential candidate of a major party to win state nominating contests.” And until recently, that seemed like it would more or less sum up of his Jewish legacy as a candidate. For most of the campaign, Sanders had seemed to…
A bomb blew up a bus and set fire to another in Jerusalem on Monday, wounding 16 people in an attack that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked to a six-month-old wave of Palestinian street violence. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any Palestinian factions for the blast. Israeli officials declined to assign…
Secretary of State John Kerry will join Vice President Joe Biden in addressing J Street’s annual gala on Monday night. The liberal Jewish Middle East policy group announced Kerry’s attendance over the weekend. Biden’s participation was announced last week. Leaders of the group and its student affiliate, J Street U, met Friday with President Barack…
Sweden’s housing minister tendered his resignation after comparing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the way Jews were treated by the Nazis. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven told a news conference in Stockholm on Monday that he had received and approved Mehmet Kaplan’s resignation letter. Kaplan, who was born in Turkey, made the remarks in…
A monthly meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the Middle East deteriorated into a shouting match on Monday as Israeli and Palestinian envoys yelled “shame on you” at each other across the chamber. “You’re paying the families of the terrorists,” Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said loudly during the meeting of the 15-nation…
The Beit Venezia Jewish culture center unveiled a series of 24 etchings created by eight international artists that will form part of a new, illustrated Venice Haggadah. The ceremony took place Sunday at the Venice Jewish Museum, where the prints will be exhibited until July 31 as part of initiatives kicked off at the end…
A Romanian watchdog group on anti-Semitism said it was worried by the mayoral candidacy of a Bucharest politician who said local Jews lied for money about the number of their brethren killed in the Holocaust. Marian Munteanu of the National Liberal Party, Romania’s second largest, made the accusation in a press statement he co-signed in…
A French singer-songwriter who compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the Armenian Holocaust released a song about the murder of four Jews at a Paris kosher supermarket last year. Renaud Sechan, a gravel-voiced balladeer who has sold millions of copies from his 16 albums, released “Hyper Cacher,” the name of the store, on his latest…
Following the dissemination of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory by a politician from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party, a chief rabbi of Russia called on the government to stamp out hate speech against Jews. Rabbi Berel Lazar’s appeal Friday to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in reaction to the April 10 statement on Jews by Vladislav…
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