A “Vampire Breast Lift.” A laser skin-tightening procedure. A 10-day first-class trip to Israel. Those are a few of the services included in the $200,000 gift bags that one marketing firm has promised for celebrities attending the Oscars ceremony on Feb. 28. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the awards,…
The Jewish Community Center of Kansas City will erect a memorial to honor the victims of the deadly 2014 shooting at the JCC and a nearby Jewish site. The memorial site at the Jewish community campus in Overland Park, Kansas, is under development, according to the JCC, the local media reported. Sculptor Jesse Small of…
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened to hit large ammonia gas tanks in northern Israel that he said would wreak damage and casualties equal to a nuclear attack. Nasrallah threatened to hit the targets in Haifa in a future attack on Israel, during a speech in Beirut. “This would be exactly as a nuclear bomb, and…
Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes will receive the Shalom Prize from the World Jewish Congress for his “contributions to building coexistence.” The Latin American branch of the World Jewish Congress made the announcement on Tuesday, as did Cartes’ office. The prize will be awarded in March, in a ceremony to be held in Buenos Aires, the…
The Dutch government announced it plans to limit ritual slaughter through new measures, including a ban on the export of kosher and halal meat. Agriculture Minister Martijn van Dam announced his government’s plan to limit ritual slaughter in the kingdom on Wednesday, in a letter he sent to the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of…
The British government’s plan to outlaw attempts to boycott Israel shows it is committed to fighting them in word as well as in deed, the leader of the European Jewish Congress said. EJC President Moshe Kantor praised the planned measures on Wednesday, in a statement that coincided with the visit to Israel of Matthew Hancock,…
Bernard Madoff accused the ABC television network of mischaracterizing his life and his criminal Ponzi scheme in a mini-series aired earlier this month. In a letter to network rival NBC, Madoff wrote: “I’m sure it is fruitless to enumerate the numerous fiction and absurd mischaracterization (sic) in the ABC movie. However I have never been…
Approximately 250 Lithuanians attended a march commemorating nationalists who are accused of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. The march Tuesday in Kaunas, a city 65 miles east of Vilnius, was organized on Lithuania’s independence day by the Union of Nationalist Youth of Lithuania under the banner “We Know Our Nation’s Heroes.”…
PEN Canada, an arm of the international writers’ association, has come in for criticism from Jewish groups for inviting a vehement critic of Israel to speak at one of its events. Max Blumenthal, a U.S. journalist and blogger, is slated to headline a Feb. 24 panel at the Toronto Public Library as part of Freedom…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for Israel to take small steps toward a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Merkel was speaking to reporters in Berlin at a news conference Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a joint session of their two governments. “Now is certainly not the time to make really comprehensive progress,”…
Bill Clinton met with Jewish community leaders in Florida while campaigning for his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Some 100 leaders came to meet Clinton in Riviera Beach, in the southern part of the state. Hillary Clinton’s campaign said her husband spoke on health care issues and the U.S.-Israel relationship. The meeting apparently signals…
