A French appeals court upheld the hate-crime convictions of anti-Israel activists who called at a demonstration for a boycott of the Jewish state. The ruling delivered last week by the French Cassation Court concerned seven activists whom a criminal appeals court in Caen in southern France slapped with a $1,000 fine each and a conviction…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders asserted in an interview that he did not compare Donald Trump to Hitler when he warned of a “lunatic …. stirring up racial hatred” during a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin. “No, I did not compare Trump to Hitler,” Sanders told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week. “But…
House Speaker Paul Ryan led a bipartisan delegation of U.S. congressmen who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. “The delegation expressed strong support for Israel,” said a short statement issued Monday by the Prime Minister’s Office following the meeting. Israel is the first foreign country that Ryan, R-Wis., has visited since becoming…
Meir Ettinger, the suspected head of a right-wing Jewish terrorist cell who is being held in administrative detention, will not be furloughed to attend his son’s circumcision. A panel of three judges of Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday morning upheld the decision of the Beersheba District Court on Sunday, which denied a petition to grant…
Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump skipped his new grandson’s bris to continue campaigning in Wisconsin. The bris of Theodore James Kushner took place in New York on Sunday. He is the son of Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Ivanka Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009 in order to marry her husband,…
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…
