— Former world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko called for his successor to the crown, Tyson Fury, to be banned from boxing over anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexist comments. On Thursday, Klitschko described the remarks in May by Fury, who took the Ukrainian’s title in November, as “Hitler-like.” Fury, 27, of Britain, was filmed warning viewers not to…
WARSAW, Poland – A Torah scroll that sat forgotten in a closet of a home in Poland for 15 years was donated to a museum in the country. Waldemar Sawicki, the owner of a home in the western Polish city of Zielona Gora, gave the scroll to the Museum of Lubusz Region, also in western…
Donald Trump says he has “unlimited” personal wealth to fund his White House run, but a Reuters review of his financial disclosures suggests he does not have enough cash to see his campaign through to Election Day. Trump this week dismissed concerns about his campaign finances after electoral filings showed he raised just $3 million…
Jewish Democrats slammed former Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio for reversing course Wednesday and announcing that he will run for another term in Washington. Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who announced in March that she would not be running for the Senate seat, slammed Rubio’s decision to run for re-election in…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday accused Israeli rabbis of calling for the poisoning of Palestinian water, in what appeared to be an invocation of a widely debunked media report that recalled a medieval anti-Semitic libel. Abbas’s remarks, in a speech to the European parliament, did not appear on the official transcript issued by his…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Rome on Sunday to try to fend off pressure from the United States and Europe over his settlements policy and opposition to a French-led effort to forge peace with the Palestinians. Beginning three days of intense diplomacy, the right-wing premier will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…
— Poland’s government offered to take over from a local authority the responsibility for preserving the grounds of the former Nazi death camp Treblinka, where 870,000 people were murdered. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage made the offer in a letter it sent last week to the regional government of Mazovia, the Rzeczpospolita daily…
WASHINGTON — Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, reportedly is counseling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to conclude an agreement with the Obama administration to expand and extend defense assistance to Israel. Oren, the Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday, a Knesset member with the centrist Kulanu Party, has in closed meetings…
(JTA) – The municipality of Vilnius in Lithuania began dismantled a Soviet-era structure made of Jewish headstones. Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius removed the first stone from the structure housing an electricity and heating generator on Olandų Street Wednesday, the mayor‘s office said in a statement. The generator was built by the Soviet authorities of Lithuania…
— The president of the World Jewish Congress is not accepting the Michelin travel company’s claims that Israel would not generate enough “gastronomic interest” or “potential readers” for its own restaurant guide. In a letter sent to the Michelin Guide’s editor-in-chief on May 18 and obtained Wednesday by JTA, Ronald Lauder argued that the “facts…
BERLIN — Unknown perpetrators kicked and beat a 21-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippah after slurring him with anti-Semitic insults. The victim, identified as Oliver Geffers of Bonn, was slightly injured in the Tuesday evening attack but did not seek medical help, according to the police report on the incident. The state criminal police agency is investigating….
