A Jewish Parliament member in Britain threatened to quit the Labour Party unless it works harder to address anti-Semitism within its ranks. “Anti-Semitism in any political party cannot be tolerated, and it is for the leadership to make that absolutely clear,” Michael Abraham Levy, a member of the House of Lords, said Monday during an…
Argentine President Mauricio Macri of Argentina will ask President Barack Obama to declassify information held by U.S. agencies about the 1994 terrorist attack on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires following a request from a victim’s father. Macri will make the request during Obama’s visit to Argentina from Tuesday to Thursday, following his visit…
SAN FRANCISCO – Andy Grove, the Silicon Valley elder statesman who made Intel into the world’s top chipmaker and helped usher in the personal computer age, died on Tuesday at age 79, Intel said. The company did not describe the circumstances of his death but Grove, who endured the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World…
RIO DE JANEIRO — The cranium and bones of Nazi leader Dr. Josef Mengele, who died in Brazil decades after fleeing Auschwitz, will be available for study at a Brazilian university. The remains of Mengele, who was known as the “Angel of Death” for his torturous experiments on prisoners, will be available to students at…
More than 200 Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition supporting the university’s ties with Israel and opposing divestment from companies that do business with the Jewish state. The letter, which was posted online Sunday, is signed by some 235 professors and other faculty members. It comes in the wake of the establishment of…
Washington – Proving his critics wrong once again, Donald Trump entered Tuesday an arena potentially packed with skeptical Jewish pro-Israel activists, and worked his magic on them. Early warnings of protests and boycotts turned out to be overstated, as Trump, in his first teleprompter-read speech on the campaign trail, threw out one applause line after…
Donald Trump seemed to imply Monday that Israel will pay back military assistance it has received from the U.S. After being asked about his past condemnations of countries who he said received defense aid from the U.S., he was asked during a press conference whether the same statement should apply to Israel. “I think Israel…
Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of his autobiography “Mein Kampf” sold at auction for more than $20,000. An American was the top bidder for the red leather-bound book, which went on the block Friday at Alexander Historical Auctions at the Maryland Auction House in Chesapeake City, the French news agency AFP reported. The book sold for…
JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces will draft a man who claimed an exemption from military service because he is haredi Orthodox after his ex-girlfriend posted a photo on Facebook showing them kissing. The post also described a sexual relationship between the two of them, Israel’s Channel 10 reported Sunday. The army sent a draft…
JERUSALEM — The reports published Monday run counter to those of intelligence assessments that said the Israelis were not deliberately targeted. On Monday, journalist Abdullah Bozkury of Today’s Zaman posted on Twitter that the bomber followed the Israeli tourists from their hotel and lurked outside the restaurant until they finished their breakfast and began to…
Forty modern Orthodox rabbis in an open letter called on Donald Trump to repudiate racism during his speech to the AIPAC policy conference. The rabbis from throughout the United States, who said in the letter posted online Friday that they “care deeply not only about America’s relationship with Israel, but the values and character of…
