MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed in a phone call on Tuesday to coordinate their two countries’ actions to fight terrorism in the Middle East, the Kremlin said in a statement. The two leaders discussed the Syrian crisis during their conversation. “Vladimir Putin stressed that there is no…
Israel’s Council of Higher Education will vote on a call for proposals to establish a college for Arab-Israelis in an Arab town, the nation’s education minister said. “For the first time in the history of the State of Israel, we will establish a general academic college in an Arab town,” Naftali Bennett, who heads the…
The company that owned the Las Vegas Review Journal asked the newspaper to monitor three judges, including one overseeing a lawsuit against Sheldon Adelson, prior to selling the newspaper to the casino magnate. Clark County, Nevada District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez has had contentious exchanges with Adelson and his lawyers during the wrongful termination lawsuit brought…
JERUSALEM — Tear gas grenades were thrown into a Palestinian home on Tuesday in what Israeli police believe was an attack by Jewish militants angered by the detention of comrades suspected of killing a Palestinian toddler and his parents in July. No one was hurt in the incident overnight in the village of Beitillu in…
A Tel Aviv attorney will be the first openly gay person to serve as a Knesset lawmaker for the right-wing Likud party. Amir Ohana, 39, is expected to be sworn in next week to fill the seat of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, who resigned amid accusations of sexual assault. A major in the Israeli army…
Charges against a Hasidic man accused with four others of beating an African-American man in New York City have been dismissed. Joseph Fried, 27, is the second member of the group to have charges dropped in the 2013 assault in Brooklyn of college student Taj Patterson. Patterson, 24, lost vision in his right eye as…
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, among the Republican presidential candidates close to the pro-Israel community, withdrew from the race for the nomination. Graham was never able to breach more than the low single digits in his bid for the nomination. The field has had as many as 18 candidates. “I’m going to suspend my campaign,” the…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Jewish suspects in a July firebombing that killed three Palestinians, including an 18-month-old, have not been tortured despite allegations. “All investigations are carried out in accordance with the law, under the supervision of the attorney general and the courts,” Netanyahu said Monday during a meeting of the Likud…
Andreja Preger, a noted concert pianist who survived the Holocaust as part of Yugoslavia’s anti-Nazi partisans, has died. Preger died on December 18 in Belgrade at the age of 104. Preger was born in Pecs, Hungary, but grew up in Zagreb, where he attended the local Jewish school. In addition to music, he studied law….
A 31-year-old man was sentenced to four to five years in prison for extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Boston-area rabbi who was having an affair with a male teenager. Nicholas Zemeitus, who pleaded guilty last month to extortion and larceny for blackmailing Rabbi Barry Starr of Sharon, Massachusetts, also will face three…
BOSTON — The first Jewish chief justice of the highest court in Massachusetts assured Muslims that the state’s judicial system will protect their rights. Against a backdrop of vocal anti-Muslim sentiment across the United States, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s chief justice, Ralph Gants, addressed worshippers at the Islamic Society of Boston after midday prayers…
געוויסע עקספּערטן האַלטן, אַז מע דאַרף באַטראַכטן ל״ג־בעומר ווי אַ פֿרילינגדיקן מײַ־פֿעסטיוואַל
