A well-known computer hacker said he was behind anti-Semitic, racist flyers that appeared on printers at more than a dozen colleges last week. Andrew Auernheimer, who goes by the name “Weev,” exploited network printers at the colleges to produce the swastika-covered flyers, he claimed as early as Friday. Auernheimer, 30, was part of a group…
(JTA) — In the wake of last week’s terror attack in Brussels, Belgians transformed a central square in the capital into an impromptu memorial for the victims. Thirty-five people died last Tuesday in a series of suicide bombings at the city’s main airport and a subway station. Starting the next day, people gathered in Place…
While many are grappling to offer explanations for the unlikely rise of Donald Trump, an obscure Yiddish word may actually have predicted his success. Trumbenik means a boastful person, and the word bears a striking resemblance to the Republican front runner’s last name. The Yiddish word comes from the Polish word for trumpet, and aptly…
LONDON — Britain’s Sky News quoted intelligence sources on Monday as saying that Islamic State had “advanced plans” to kill Jewish children in Turkey by attacking kindergartens, schools and youth centers. Sky Foreign Affairs Editor Sam Kiley said the information on the “imminent” threat came from six operatives arrested over the past week in the…
A Belgian Jew whose leg was amputated in a suicide bombing at Brussels’ main airport said he would immigrate to Israel. Walter Benjamin plans to make aliyah when he recovers from the injury he sustained in the March 22 attack he told Israel’s Channel 2 Sunday. The attack was part of a series of bombings…
JERUSALEM — Non-Jews should not live in the Land of Israel unless they accept the seven Noahide Laws, Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi said. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef made the statement during his weekly Saturday night lecture, Israel’s Channel 10 first reported. Channel 10 obtained a copy of a recording of the lecture, which it posted on…
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Israel appears more ready to make an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal than he previously believed. “From the Israeli side, they would love to see a deal,” Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod, told The New York Times in an extensive foreign policy Q&A posted over the…
(JTA) — When Jews visit the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, they can learn about the two most celebrated members of the tribe who have been inducted into the hallowed museum: Hank “The Hebrew Hammer” Greenberg and Sandy Koufax. Now they’ll have the chance to find out about the dozens of other…
VENICE – The Jews of the world’s first ghetto, which marks its 500th anniversary this month, have two words of advice for Europe as it struggles to deal with mass migration: patience and integration. More than a million people, mostly Muslims, streamed into Europe last year from the Middle East and Africa. Neither they nor…
WASHINGTON – Fresh from Democratic presidential primary wins over the weekend in three U.S. states, Bernie Sanders said on Sunday he had political momentum that could help him win the backing of Democratic power brokers in his race against Hillary Clinton. Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii on Saturday. His latest…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the government’s controversial natural gas deal. The high court on Sunday struck down in a 4-1 ruling the stability clause, which guarantees that the current and future governments will not change the deal or place regulatory changes on the gas industry for the…
