Two Jewish professors have filed federal complaints against their Boston-area college alleging anti-Semitic discrimination. The educators from Wheelock College, a small liberal arts school, filed the complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week, the Boston Globe reported Sunday. Eric Silverman and Gail Dines allege in the complaint that Wheelock’s president, Jackie Jenkins-Scott,…
Publicly funded authorities in Britain will be prevented from boycotting Israeli goods under new government procurement guidelines. The new regulations will be announced by Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock during an upcoming visit to Israel, the Guardian reported Monday. According to the guidelines, such boycotts are considered by the government ministers to be “inappropriate, outside…
Turkey and Israel are close to signing an agreement on compensation for the killing of 10 Turkish activists by Israeli commandos in 2010, a Turkish ruling party official said on Monday. The former allies have stepped up efforts in recent months to restore a relationship that was severely damaged following the Israeli raid on a…
Disgraced ex-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is reportedly under police investigation for allegedly choking a woman at a $1,000=a-night room at a posh Manhattan hotel. Several news outlets said police are looking into claims the former politician and CNN host assaulted Svetlana Travis, a Russian woman in her 20s, at the Plaza on Central Park…
Six identifiably Jewish men were threatened in a suburb of Johannesburg while walking home from synagogue. The men were walking home from the Ohr Somayach Jewish center in Glenhazel last week when a vehicle with four occupants drove past them, with the driver making offensive hand gestures and shouting “F***ing Jews.” A few minutes later,…
(JTA) — It may be the most elevated Shabbat service in the country, and not just because of the spirited singing. Held in a rustic cabin in the woods off a ski slope at Deer Valley resort, the service is situated at about 8,800 feet above sea level, and it’s the nation’s — and possibly…
Israel and the European Union have agreed to put relations “back on track,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu and top European Union official Federica Mogherini in a weekend conversation discussed tension between Israel and the EU. European-Israeli relations have deteriorated since November, when the EU adopted long-discussed guidelines to label products made in…
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert released a video statement insisting on his innocence on Monday, before arriving at prison in a motorcade to begin a 19-month sentence for corruption. Olmert is the first former head of government in Israel to go to prison. During his premiership from 2006 to 2009, he was internationally credited…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid tribute Sunday to Antonin Scalia, the colleague and unlikely friend who died a day earlier. Ginsburg, who forged a close bond with Scalia despite their places on opposits sides of the ideological spectrum, called her friend “a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit.” “We were best buddies,” she…
The Israeli army said troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers who were throwing stones at cars in the occupied West Bank on Sunday after coming under fire from one of them. In a separate incident, a Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli paramilitary policeman at a checkpoint in the West Bank, near Jerusalem, and was…
Yom Kippur War hero Maj.-Gen. Avigdor ‘Yanush’ Ben-Gal was buried in Israel’s Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. Ben-Gal, credited with holding Syria back during the war in 1973, died on Saturday at the age of 79 and was buried on Sunday. “During the darkest days of the Yom Kippur War, when the fate of Israel hung…
