Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he would skip the next Fox News debate to speak at the AIPAC conference, leading to the cancellation of the network’s event. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee added Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to the roster of presidential candidates who will address the conference being held March 20-22…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided yeshivas and technology vendors in ultra-Orthodox corners of Brooklyn and Rockland County, serving search warrants as part of a sweeping fraud investigation into religious schools’ use of the federal government’s E-Rate program, the Journal News reported. The raids began in the Orthodox town of Monsey and the Hasidic…
Sheldon Adelson is reportedly open to the idea of supporting Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president in 2016. “Trump is a businessman. I am a businessman. He employs a lot of people. I employed 50,000 people. Why not?” Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate and prominent Republican donor, said during a gala on February…
Famed former Subway sandwich shop pitchman and convicted paedophile Jared Fogle was reportedly badly beaten by a fellow inmate in a prison yard attack. TMZ that he “got jumped in the rec yard at Englewood prison in Colorado back on January 29, and it was not much of a fight.” The news site identifies his…
BERLIN/PARIS — Germany and France on Wednesday criticized Israel’s decision to appropriate large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank, saying the move violated international law and contradicted a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday the land was near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho….
BERLIN – Undeterred by dwindling numbers of living suspects, Germany’s top Nazi hunter is determined to keep tracking down criminals involved in Hitler’s murder machine for another decade. As a handful of new Auschwitz-related trials get underway, Jens Rommel says his work is getting more difficult every year and yields only modest results. But it…
President Barack Obama will nominate Jewish appellate court judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the White House said, setting up a potentially ferocious political showdown with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any Obama nominee. Garland, 63, who is currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
TEL AVIV – Israelis can now use their smartphones to make live video distress calls to emergency responders, a first-of-its-kind service that, if successful, could set a new standard for countries around the world. Video chats, texting and location detection may be humdrum features for today’s smartphone user, but they remain a puzzle to most…
Britain’s Royal Mail has issued a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler.” The first class stamp was issued on Tuesday, part of a set of six commemorative stamps honoring some of the United Kingdom’s greatest humanitarians and their achievements, the BBC reported. Winton, who helped rescue 669 children from Nazi-occupied…
JERUSALEM — The U.S. State Department criticized Israel for “expropriation” of West Bank land around Jericho and near the Dead Sea. The declaration turning the 580 acres of West Bank land into Israeli state land was signed by the Civil Administration’s Head of the Government Property on March 10 during a visit to Israel and…
Several hundred ultranationalists, including seven veterans of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS, marched through Riga on the independence day of the Baltic nation of Latvia. The march Wednesday, a controversial affair which is Europe’s only annual event by Waffen SS veterans, drew a handful of counter-protesters from Latvia’s Jewish community and about 40 anti-fascist activists, including…
