The White House is exploring the possibility of supporting a UN Security Council resolution that would set the principles for a permanent Israeli-Palestinian agreement. The resolution would be brought to a vote before the end of U.S. President Barack Obama’s term in office, the Wall Street Journal has reported. According to the report, published Monday, the…
Film producer Artur Brauner, 97, a Polish-born Jew who made Germany his home, has donated 21 of his works to the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Brauner handed his original films over to the museum on Monday. Described as treasures of post-war German cinema, they include the 1990 film “Europa Europa,” which won a Golden Globe…
Of the two Democratic candidates in the U.S. presidential race, Israelis prefer the non-Jewish one. The Israel Democracy Institute’s Peace Index survey released Sunday found that 40.5 percent of Jewish-Israelis see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as “preferable from Israel’s standpoint,” while only 16.5 percent prefer Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish. The…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cancellation of a proposed meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama put more strain on their troubled ties on Tuesday just before a visit to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden. The White House said on Monday it was “surprised” to learn first from Israeli media that Netanyahu had decided against…
(JTA) — Despite recent summer temperatures here topping out at 42 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) in Rio de Janeiro, Milena Rozenbrah has become accustomed recently to dressing in pants and long sleeves when she leaves home. A Jewish mother in Brazil’s second-largest city, Rozenbrah is concerned not for the religious value of tzniut, or modesty,…
The National Rifle Association praised presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for saying a law he supported kept lawsuits from driving gun manufacturers out of the United States. “Sen. Sanders was spot-on in his comments about gun manufacturer liability,” the gun lobby said Monday in a tweet about the Democratic debate the previous evening between Sanders, an…
Oberlin College’s board of trustees is calling for the school administration to launch an investigation into what it called a faculty member’s “anti-Semitic and abhorrent” posts on social media. In a statement issued Saturday on behalf of the board, its chair, Clyde McGregor, said the trustees at their quarterly meeting the previous day had discussed…
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he will not run for president in the 2016 race. The billionaire media magnate, who is Jewish and had been exploring the possibility of running as an independent, announced in an opinion column published Monday afternoon that he will stay out of the race because he does not…
Subsidized tours of the West Bank for young Jews, synagogue gardens to grow food for the needy, and linking 20- and 30-something Jews to Shabbat experiences are among the 11 initiatives recognized for the first time in the annual Slingshot guide to innovative projects. The 2016 guide published Monday features 50 North American Jewish projects…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined an offer to meet U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House later this month and canceled his trip to Washington, the White House said on Monday. Netanyahu’s decision to nix his U.S. visit marked the latest episode in a fraught relationship with Obama that has yet to…
An Uber driver who shouted anti-Semitic epithets at a bus driver in a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London received a suspended prison sentence. Rashal Miah, 36, shouted that he would “kill all the Jews” after getting stuck in traffic in Stamford Hill, a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London, in September, 2014. He also called the…
