RIO DE JANEIRO — The elevation of a centrist vice president, Michel Temer, as Brazil’s president amid the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff is expected to result in a less strained relationship between Brazil and Israel, as well as its Jewish community, Jewish leaders said. Temer, 75, the son of Lebanese immigrants, took the helm…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela attended a ceremony to mark the 140th anniversary of the Central American country’s first synagogue. “The Jewish presence in Panama was born committed to the fate of this small nation, and that heritage has been enriched throughout the history of the country to the present…
Saying “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state,” former President Bill Clinton defended his record on Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, and his wife’s, at a campaign event. “I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza,” Clinton said Friday in response to a heckler at an event in…
(JTA) — Amid controversy over new protections President Barack Obama has extended to transgender people, a number of Jewish groups have welcomed them. A statement Friday from the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center praised the guidance issued the same day by the Justice and Education departments requiring that schools receiving federal funds end discrimination based…
The oldest American is now a 113-year-old Jewish woman named Goldie. After the death of 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt-Jones Friday, the reported that Goldie Michelson of Worcester, Massachusetts, became the oldest living American. Since the death of another Goldie, 114-year-old Goldie Steinberg last year, Michelson has likely been the oldest Jew in the world too. Michelson (neé Corash) was…
The umbrella group of French Jewish communities objected to the planned marketing at Cannes of a film it said falsely blames Germans security forces for the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes held hostage by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Roger Cukierman, the president of CRIF, made the objection in a May 3 letter to Pierre Lescure, president of…
WASHINGTON — Sheldon Adelson plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to help elect Donald Trump, the New York Times . The casino billionaire, Republican megagiver and pro-Israel philanthropist last week declared his support for Trump in a Washington post Op-Ed but did not say whether that would mean a cash infusion. The Times…
Citing resistance by Muslims to a compromise on ritual slaughter of animals, a Belgian cabinet minister called for a blanket ban on the custom, a policy that would affect observant Jews and Muslims. Ben Weyts, animal welfare minister in the government of the Flemish Region — one of three entities that make up the federal kingdom of…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Citing his fears about Iran and Donald Trump’s experience as a CEO, Jewish casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson endorsed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. “You may not like Trump’s style or what he says on Twitter, but this country needs strong executive leadership more today than at almost any point in its history,”…
The British Labour Party suspended yet another member for anti-Semitic comments after he posted an article claiming that “Jews control Britain and are committing genocide on us.” Musabbir Ali, a former campaign officer from East London, was suspended Thursday, London’s Jewish Chronicle . He is one of approximately 20 members to be suspended in recent…
Thousands of Arab Israelis, including several Knesset members, demonstrated in favor of the Palestinian right of return, the first time such an event took place in the Negev. Wednesday’s demonstration came on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, a date when Arab citizens of Israel mourn the plight of the more than 700,000 Arabs who…
