Israeli soldiers killed in the line of duty may now be buried in a military cemetery without a religious ceremony. Last week’s ruling by the legal adviser to the Defense Department came in response to a request this summer by the religious pluralism organization Hiddush, which called on the defense minister and chief of staff…
There’s a lot of social media buzz about the nearly 2-hour documentary, “Netanyahu at War,” which chronicles Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s career and then veers into his relationship with President Barack Obama. Allow me a mixed-generation metaphor — boomers and millennials — for my takeaway: The PBS documentary casts the Obama-Netanyahu relationship as a…
PARIS (JTA) — Last year may have been traumatic for France and its Jews, but it was a pretty good one for Rudy Abecassis. In a year that began with the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the subsequent killing of four at a kosher supermarket in Paris, Abecassis, 32, a Marseille-born computer specialist who moved to…
Tunisian Jews called on their government to discipline the president of a soccer club who is accused of making an anti-Semitic slur against a Jewish referee. Last week, the Jewish Community of Tunisia, or CJT, published its call and condemnation of Lotfi Abdennadher, head of the main soccer club in the city of Sfax, on…
Spain compensated an Israeli university in the amount of $107,000 in damages for its exclusion from a scientific competition for political reasons. The central government transferred the money earlier this month as per a recent decision on the matter by the Spanish Council of State, according to a statement published Wednesday by ACOM, a pro-Israel…
An Israeli communications company will end its relationship with French telecommunications giant Orange next month, following a BDS controversy. The severing of 17 years of ties comes eight months after Orange CEO Stephan Richard said at a news conference in Cairo that his company would abandon its Israeli affiliate Partner “tomorrow morning” if not for…
GAZA — The Gaza Strip’s struggling healthcare system will get some much needed help in 2016 after the first new hospital in a decade opened its doors in the territory last month and as two more foreign-funded clinics are set to launch this year. After nearly five years of construction, with delays caused by fighting…
An Arab-Israeli merchant is offering a $10,000 cash reward for information that helps in the capture of an Arab-Israeli fugitive suspected of killing three people in two Tel Aviv shooting attacks. Mazen Qaq, head of the merchants’ committee in Jerusalem’s Old City and a resident of eastern Jerusalem, announced the reward on Tuesday for information…
The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian government to pay $35,000 to a Jewish activist from Moscow whom authorities illegally imprisoned at a demonstration. The ruling on Jan. 5 by the court in Strasbourg, France relates to the arrest on May 6, 2012 of Evgeny Frumkin, a 53-year-old Muscovite organizer of many rallies…
A Donald Trump campaign poster on a Florida building owned by a Jewish woman was defaced to make the front running GOP candidate look like Adolf Hitler. The poster in the window of a vacant storefront in Jacksonville reads: “We want Donald Trump! Republican Candidate For President.” The words were altered overnight Tuesday with spray…
The BBC has released a short documentary about Jewish comedian Jerry Lewis’ never-before-seen Holocaust film. “The Day the Clown Cried,” which Lewis wrote and directed at the height of his Hollywood career in 1971, has never been released. The BBC documentary released on Tuesday includes behind-the-scenes footage of production, stills from the film and narration…
