The historic agreement to allow egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall is reportedly in danger of collapse after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caved to ultra-Orthodox demands to reopen negotiations on the sensitive deal. Haaretz reports that Jewish Agency chief Natan Sharansky, the architect of the agreement, believes new talks could scuttle the agreement that would…
Democrats are making inching progress in their battle to win confirmation for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Although Republican leaders still insist they won’t give a hearing to the respected Jewish jurist, the White House and Senate Democrats say their campaign to force a shift is starting to bear fruit. Politico is reporting that Democrats…
An Israeli soldier’s bullet to the head killed a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay prone on the ground, the autopsy determined, according to a Palestinian news agency. Israeli doctors conducted the autopsy, which was completed Sunday, at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, with a Palestinian pathologist present. They all agreed on…
Soccer star Lionel Messi was slammed as “Jewish” and a “Zionist” by Egyptian officials after donating his soccer shoes to a charity in Egypt. Messi, who plays for the Barcelona Football Club, was interviewed last week on the Egyptian television program “Yes, I Am Famous” on the private network MBC Masr. “One of the things…
The United Nations has censored an exhibition about Israel set to go on display at the organization’s headquarters in New York. Three of the 13 panels in the exhibition “Israel Matters,” which is set to open Monday, will be deleted, the U.N. decided over the weekend. The censored panels deemed “inappropriate” are on the subjects…
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah officially opened its modern new sanctuary on Manhattan’s West Side on April 3. Jubilant congregants blew a shofar and Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke at the dedication of the new space on West 30th Street. CBST bills itself as a home for progressive Jews and is considered…
Canada’s first and only all-Jewish radio station signed off for the last time after more than 15 years of struggling to stay financially afloat. The station’s last broadcast was on Friday. Radio Shalom, an AM and Internet-streamed station based in Montreal that broadcast 24 hours a day except on Shabbat, was forced to close, owner…
Britain reportedly has halted funding to a charity that sponsored anti-Israel events. The government’s Department for International Development pulled its funding of the human rights organization War On Want, The Telegraph reported over the weekend. The group helped to pay for last month’s Israeli Apartheid Week throughout the country, the newspaper wrote. Over the last…
Germany’s federal intelligence agency, the BND, has spied on friendly governments including Israel and the United States, the weekly magazine der Spiegel reported. Targets of “monitoring” based on picked-up keywords included the office of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the U.S. State Department, as well as offices of Austria’s Interior Ministry and the United…
Vandals defaced and tore down signs announcing an exhibit about Israel at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The vandalism occurred Sunday morning on the French capital’s subway. The exhibit, called “Open a Door to Israel,” a joint project of Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Foreign Affairs ministries, features nine doors that open to interactive screens that…
Last August, Bernie Sanders sat on a Craigslist-bought beige couch in his Washington office plotting to steal the social media spotlight from 10 Republicans taking the stage for the first televised debate of the 2016 presidential campaign. Next to the Democratic presidential candidate, 74, sat 27-year-old Hector Sigala, his digital media director. For the next…
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