A Florida university has fired the professor who claims the Sandy Hook school shooting, after the parents of the Jewish boy killed massacre accused him of harassment. Florida Atlantic University on Tuesday sent a letter to James Tracy, a tenured associate professor of communications, informing him of his termination. His last official day at the…
U.S. Rep. Steve Israel, a member of the Democratic leadership in Congress, has announced he will not seek reelection this fall, ending an eight-term career in Washington. The Long Island Congressman said he planned to continue in some form of public service, but didn’t elaborate. “It is time for me to pursue new passions and…
Jewish Israeli passengers on a flight from Athens to Tel Aviv demanded the crew remove two Arab-Israelis from the plane before allowing it to take off. The incident, in which the Jewish travelers stopped an Aegean Airlines plane from taking off by standing in the aisles while the plane was on the tarmac, took place…
A three-family Brooklyn house was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and the words “Hitler was a hero” scrawled on the door. The building’s residents, all Hasidic Satmar Jews, discovered the graffiti on Saturday morning, JP Updates reported. The New York Police Department is investigating the incident as a hate crime. The vandalism occurred Friday…
The Vatican newspaper has criticized French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for depicting God as a Kalashnikov-carrying killer, saying it was “woeful” and disrespectful to true believers of all faiths. The cover was an anniversary edition, commemorating the attacks a year ago when Islamist militants killed 12 during an assault on the Charlie Hebdo newsroom in…
BOSTON — Dr. Robert Berger, an eminent cardiothoracic surgeon who discredited medical experiments conducted by the Nazis, has died. Berger, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary who risked his life fighting with the resistance, died Jan. 1 in Boston of complications from a heart attack. He was 86. The director of clinical research in The Beth…
An Israeli soldier was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for sharing classified information with far-right Jewish extremists. Cpl. Elad Sela, a member of an Israel Defense Forces intelligence project involving haredi Orthodox recruits, was sentenced Tuesday for sharing military information with “price tag” vandals, the Times of Israel reported. “Price tag” attacks, conducted…
Israel is expected to withdraw the name of a former settler leader to be its ambassador to Brazil, ending a four-month diplomatic row. Dani Dayan will likely assume the Israeli consulate general position in Los Angeles or New York, according to reports in the Israeli and Brazilian media citing senior Israeli officials. An alternative envoy…
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who nearly died in a horrific mass shooting five years ago, was front and center at the White House as President Barack Obama used his executive powers to tighten the nation’s gun laws Tuesday. Giffords, the first Jewish congresswoman from her home state of Arizona, received a standing ovation as she…
French President Francois Hollande unveiled a memorial plaque outside the Paris-area kosher supermarket where an Islamist killed four Jews last year. Hollande’s visit on Tuesday morning to the Hyper Cacher launched the official commemorations of the first anniversary of three terrorist attacks that rocked France last January. The plaque he unveiled listed the names of…
An accused Jewish extremist with dual Israeli and American citizenship was released from an Israeli prison after being jailed without charges for five months. Mordechai Meyer, 18, of the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, was set free Monday after being under administrative detention since August for his suspected involvement in an arson attack more…
