A Colombian actress suggested that “Son of Saul” won the Academy Award for best foreign language film because “a large part of the industry and especially those who vote for the Oscar awards” are Jewish. Paola Turbay, a former Miss Colombia and runner-up in the 1992 Miss Universe pageant, was miffed that “Embrace of the…
An Israeli backpacker has died in an extreme adventure accident in the Peruvian city of Cusco. Orel Guetta, 24, of Kfar Saba, fell to his death after a cable malfunctioned on the Tarzan pendulum attraction, which swings riders along a canyon from a harness more than 300 feet in the air. His body was taken…
The Western Wall rabbi withdrew his support for a deal establishing a separate egalitarian prayer section at the holy site. Shmuel Rabinowitz in a letter Monday urged ultra-Orthodox party leaders to introduce legislation to cancel the Jan. 31 deal and a 2013 district court ruling allowing the Women of the Wall group to pray in…
Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam are speaking at an invite-only New York City event tonight hosted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Boteach, whose not-for-profit group World Values Network received $2.4 million from the Adelsons’ foundation in 2014, will interview the billionaire couple. Billed as an installment in the World Values Network’s…
ROME — Pope Francis will visit Auschwitz during a trip to Poland in late July. According to a schedule released over the weekend, the pontiff will visit the former Nazi death camp on July 29 during a five-day visit to Poland to mark the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day. Main Youth Day events are to…
Anti-Semitism in Germany, whether from natives or refugees, must be confronted by the government and civil society together, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Speaking Monday to more than 100 legislators from some 40 countries gathered in Berlin for the third Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism, Merkel also said that Jews must feel free to speak…
Jews and pro-Israel advocates, among the 6,000 attendees at the Donald Trump rally on Sunday evening here, were adamant that his previously stated “neutral” stance on the Israeli Palestinian conflict is merely a facade. Last month during an MSNBC town hall in Charleston, South Carolina, the GOP presidential frontrunner said, “I don’t want to get…
The Breitbart News reporter who accused Donald Trump’s campaign manager of roughing her up has resigned. Michelle Fields, along with editor-at-large Ben Shapiro, handed in their resignations Sunday night. Fields has accused the management of the conservative news agency, which was founded by the late Jewish publisher Andrew Breitbart, of casting doubt on her allegations….
The widow of a Jewish artist and doctor has denied reports that she is a mysterious Italian author who writes under the pen name Elena Ferrante. Italian novelist and professor, Marco Santagata suggested that ‘Ferrante’ could be Marcella Marmo in a lengthy article published over the weekend in the literary supplement of the daily Corriere…
An Israeli professor urged fellow academics on Monday to shun a Jewish settlement college in the occupied West Bank, a move that could effectively import an international pro-Palestinian boycott movement. Uri Ram, president of the Israeli Sociological Society, told local broadcaster Army Radio that the group “will not cooperate with the institution called Ariel University,…
A bill that would bar Conservative and Reform converts from using public Israeli ritual baths passed an initial Cabinet vote. The vote Sunday in the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, made up of 12 government ministers, obligates Israel’s governing coalition to support the bill when it reaches the Knesset floor, though subsequent votes will be delayed…
