(JTA) — At least 65 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a suicide bombing at a park in Lahore, Pakistan. More than 300 were wounded in the attack for which the Pakistani Taliban faction claimed responsibility, saying it was targeting Christians on Easter Sunday, Reuters reported. The explosion occurred in the parking area…
“Any challenge to the morality of the IDF is outrageous and unacceptable,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. “The soldiers of the IDF, our children, maintain high ethical values while courageously fighting against bloodthirsty murderers under difficult operational conditions.” A video published Thursday by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem…
(JTA) — An unidentified man damaged the entrance to a synagogue in North Miami Beach but did not enter the building. The man threw several rocks at the front door of the Sephardic Jewish Center, a surveillance video shows, according to the Miami Herald. The incident reportedly took place early on the morning of March…
(JTA) — Police in Turkey have warned of possible attacks by the Islamic State against Christian and Jewish targets over the weekend. The possible targeting of churches and synagogues on Sunday was listed in a nationwide police alert, according to Turkish media reports. Consulates and embassies also were told to stay on high alert. The…
BRUSSELS (JTA) — A young rabbi from the Netherlands said unidentified individuals threw stones at him at a park in Brussels in a suspected anti-Semitic incident. The rabbi, who is from the Netherlands, told JTA about the incident Saturday on condition of anonymity, citing a desire to have him name “associated with positive issues, and…
BOSTON (JTA) -– Printers at a half dozen college campuses in Massachusetts and Rhode Island were hacked with an anti-Semitic, racist flyer, in a breach of the schools’ computers that also turned up at colleges across the country. The flyer reads: “White man, are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through…
TORONTO (JTA) — Canada’s foreign affairs minister has called on the United Nations to review the appointment of a Canadian law professor with a history of anti-Israel bias to a key United Nations job. Government minister Stephane Dion is questioning the appointment of Michael Lynk, a law professor at Western University in London, Ontario, as…
Sen. Bernie Sanders handily won Democratic nominating contests in Washington state, Alaska and Hawaii, narrowing the delegate gap with front-runner Hillary Clinton but still facing a daunting challenge to secure the party’s presidential nod. With the Sanders’ victories on Saturday, Clinton now leads the Vermont Independent in the number of pledged delegates, 1,234 to 956….
A Holocaust survivor who became a New Orleans tailor with such celebrity clients as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley, is dead at 100. Joseph Sher died Thursday at Lambeth House, a New Orleans retirement community and assisted-living facility, The Times-Picayune reported. He was the oldest Holocaust survivor in New Orleans and the leader of the…
Mourad Laachraoui, brother of terrorist Najim Laachraoui, who blew himself up in Brussels airport on Tuesday, is a medal-winning sportsman who won the Israeli Open Taekwondo Championship in Ramle in September. Fourteen people were killed and dozens wounded when Najim, 25, and another terrorist blew themselves up at the airport earlier this week. Another twenty…
NEW YORK — Leaders in the Jewish community of New York’s Rockland County condemned the hanging of a black-faced doll with dreadlocks outside a local home apparently in celebration of Purim. The effigy, which according to a News12 Hudson Valley report Thursday evening was spotted outside a Spring Valley house, angered many African-Americans and others…
