JERUSALEM – Arson was not the cause of a fire that damaged the Duma home of a key witness in a deadly attack last year in the same West Bank Palestinian village, police believe. Ibrahim Dawabsheh, the owner of the house, and his wife escaped from the burning home early Sunday morning and were treated…
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden called on Israel’s government on Sunday to demonstrate its commitment to a two-state solution to end the conflict with the Palestinians and said settlement expansion is weakening prospects for peace. “Israel’s government’s steady and systematic process of expanding settlements, legalizing outposts, seizing land, is eroding in my view the…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders outraised rival Hillary Clinton in February but spent at a faster pace, leaving him with less money, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Sanders raised $43.5 million in the month, compared with Clinton, who raised $30.1 million. The U.S. senator from Vermont has amassed much of his…
(JTA) — The family of philanthropist Lewis Katz, who died in a private plane crash in Massachusetts, has filed a wrongful death suit in Boston against the plane’s manufacturer. Katz’s two children filed the suit against Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. and eight other parties last week, the Boston Globe reported. Among the other parties are the…
(JTA) – A second officer of Oxford University’s Labour Club has resigned after leveling discrimination charges. The club’s disabilities officer, Brahma Mohanty, stepped down after claiming the club forced members to “subscribe to a radical ideology of division and isolation,” the London-based Telegraph newspaper reported Friday. Last month, Alex Chalmers resigned as co-chair following claims…
(JTA) — The mayor of the Boston suburb that has been the scene of several anti-Semitic incidents in recent weeks has announced a series of initiatives to “ensure an accepting and welcoming environment” for students, residents and visitors. On Friday, Setti Warren said in a statement that the initiatives are “in response to recent incidents…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill that would bar Conservative and Reform conversions from public ritual baths violates Israeli constitutional law, the country’s attorney general said. On Sunday, Avichai Mandelblit submitted a legal opinion to the government in which he said the bill violates several basic rights, including to freedom of religion, human dignity and equality,…
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — The mayor of Athens signed a declaration against anti-Semitism, joining 60 other European mayors to have inked the American Jewish Committee’s initiative. “I chose to sign because it is my conviction that the first value in civilized society is human dignity,” said Mayor Giorgos Kaminis at a ceremony with a nine-member…
(JTA) — Vanderbilt University has named a new scholarship in honor of the graduate student killed in a terrorist stabbing attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month. The Taylor Force Memorial Scholarship was announced by Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos on Friday during a campus memorial service for Force, an MBA student at the Nashville, Tennessee, university…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and homophobic messages were written on the walls of a student dormitory at Brown University. The vandalism discovered early Friday morning at the Providence, Rhode Island, school came days after the cancellation of an appearance by prominent African-American transgender activist Janet Mock at the Brown University Hillel after facing criticism for allegedly…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An Illinois state agency named 11 companies barred from doing business with the state for boycotting Israel or its settlements, the first such designation by an official U.S. body. A number of the entities on the list approved Friday by the Illinois Investment Policy board have pulled money from Israeli businesses that…
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