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…
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former United Nations secretary-general who as a member of the Egyptian Cabinet was key to achieving the Camp David peace accords, has died. Boutros-Ghali died Tuesday in a Cairo hospital, where he had been admitted for a broken pelvis, at 93. His death was announced at the start of a U.N. Security…
A Johannesburg conference dealing with the water crisis in South Africa was canceled due to criticism concerning the inclusion of Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. The envoy, Arthur Lenk, was to be part of a panel at the conference scheduled for the end of February on “equitable and sustainable water management for poverty alleviation,” the…
The Paris City Council adopted two nonbinding resolutions condemning attempts to boycott Israel, which are illegal in France. The two resolutions, one submitted by the Socialist-led coalition of Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the other by center-right members of the City Council, were adopted Tuesday, according to the French-language Muslim news website saphirnews.com. One of the…
Yoshiyahu Pinto, an Israeli rabbi who has counseled such celebrities as LeBron James, entered prison to serve a one-year term for bribery. Pinto arrived at Nitzan Prison in central Israel on Tuesday afternoon, later than scheduled after he first made an unexpected visit to a Jerusalem hospital for medical treatment. He is scheduled to serve…
Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief William Booth was detained by Border Police in Jerusalem. Booth was detained at the Damascus Gate outside of the Old City of Jerusalem on accusations of “incitement” and released an hour later after questioning at a nearby police station, the Times of Israel reported, citing a police spokesman. Booth and…
The Italian government has released thousands of previous classified documents related to fascist and Nazi war crimes committed in Italy during World War II. The documents were declassified from a parliamentary commission that had investigated the concealment of files related to these crimes. Specifically, the commission had dealt with what was dubbed the “cabinet of…
