The Jewish Agency for Israel plans to distribute $1 million to more than 100 individuals and families that have been directly affected by the wave of terror attacks in Israel that began in October. Each family will receive financial assistance of up to $6,400 from the agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror, which is meant…
Swastikas were drawn on the sidewalk of a heavily Jewish community in suburban New York. They were discovered two blocks apart in Cedarhurst, part of a grouping of Long Island villages and hamlets known as the Five Towns bordering the Queens borough. Children who saw the swastikas on the sidewalk on their way to school…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation hinted on Wednesday that authorities in Iran had recently been trying to help locate Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared exactly nine years ago after traveling to an Iranian resort island to meet a fugitive from U.S. justice. “We are encouraged by recent cooperation between the government of…
(JTA) — Can Bernie Sanders actually win it? With his surprising victory in the Michigan primary by 2 percentage points on Tuesday — after trailing Hillary Clinton by double digits in the polls — the possibility has inched a little closer to reality. To be sure, Sanders still trails Clinton by a healthy margin in the…
Bernie Sanders, speaking in an Arab-American stronghold, said he would aim for a “level playing field” in U.S. Middle East policy. Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont bidding for the Democratic presidential nomination, said at a rally in Dearborn, Michigan, on Monday that brokering Israeli-Arab peace is daunting. “For decades now there has been hatred…
Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of his autobiography “Mein Kampf” is set to be auctioned off. The red leather-bound book will put be on the auction block by Alexander Historical Auctions at the Maryland Auction House in Chesapeake City on March 17 and 18. It is one of about 1,000 World War I and World War…
The board of the student union at the prestigious University College London passed a nonbinding motion endorsing the anti-Israel boycott movement. Student union officers on Wednesday passed the motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, by a vote of 14-4, The Jewish News of London reported. There were three abstentions. The measure…
Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his wife Jill and their grandchildren were dining on a Tel Aviv beach when a Palestinian killed an American tourist with a knife and wounded 11 other people on the seafront “not very far” away. Since October, Palestinian stabbings, shootings and car rammings have killed 28 Israelis and…
A First Temple-era stamp that is distinctive both for its age and the fact that it belonged to a woman, was recently discovered in excavations in Jerusalem. The 2,500-year-old personal seal, made of semi-precious stone and bearing the words in Hebrew “To Elihana bat Gael,” was uncovered at the City of David, the Israel Antiquities…
A Jewish businessman was killed while crossing a street in front of his office in the small Uruguayan town of Paysandu. The assailant stabbed David Fremd, 54, in the back ten times and reportedly called out “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is Great,” in Tuesday night’s attack. “There is no evidence that the attack has something…
Two Palestinian assailants opened fire at cars in Jerusalem, wounding one man before police shot them dead on Wednesday, the force said, as violence surged during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. Soon after in the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab them, the military…
