Israel condemned as “scandalous” on Sunday what it deemed was a suggestion by the Swedish foreign minister that its forces had unlawfully killed Palestinians involved in a surge of street violence, and warned of a diplomatic rupture with Stockholm. Addressing Swedish lawmakers on Friday, Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom denounced the almost daily Palestinian knife, gun…
(JTA) — Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at an annual U.S.-Israel confab, said Israel’s government must consider the consequences of evolving toward a single state incorporating the Palestinian areas. “How does Israel possibly maintain its character as a Jewish democratic state?” Kerry said Saturday at the Saban Forum in Washington, D.C. Would Palestinians “be…
President Barack Obama named Tom Berstein, a major backer of his presidential campaigns, to a second five-year term chairing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Bernstein is the president of Chelsea Piers, the Manhattan sports and entertainment complex, and the vice chairman of Human Rights First, a watchdog group. Bernstein co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team…
Former junior middleweight boxing champion and newly ordained Orthodox rabbi Yuri Foreman is ending his two-year hiatus from the ring. Foreman, 35, will fight Lenwood Dozier at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday night, Dec. 5. According to ESPN, to win a world title in over 70 years when he beat Daniel Santos…
A surveillance video taken from a nearby business reportedly shows the man New York City cops are looking to question in the assault on the manager of a Manhattan Judaica shop. The video, obtained by the news site, does not show the man’s face clearly but does show the distinctive royal blue hoodie and red/magenta…
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström on Friday accused Israel of executing Palestinian assailants without trial. The remarks further exacerbated the tension between Stockholm and Jerusalem, prompting a scathing response from the Israeli ambassador to Sweden. Wallström made the comments in response to foreign policy questions directed at her during a parliament meeting. During the session,…
President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday that federal investigators would find out what motivated a married couple in California to shoot and kill 14 people, and he asked Americans to stand united after the attacks. “We are strong. And we are resilient. And we will not be terrorized,” Obama said in his weekly address. Obama…
Yossi Sarid, an Israeli commentator and former cabinet minister who was the country’s most acid-tongued dove, died on Friday of a heart attack, aged 75, the broadcaster where he worked said. At Army Radio, Sarid used his morning show, “The Last Word,” to rail eruditely against conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, especially regarding stalled…
A Jewish Montana man has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison for shooting a bartender and killing his dog in retaliation for being served a non-kosher drink. Monte Hanson, 60, pleaded guilty in September to shooting 29-year-old Joseph Lewis and his dog on May 9. District Judge James Haynes sentenced Hanson on Thursday…
Nicholas Thalasinos, the Messianic Jew killed in the shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, reportedly sparred with his alleged killer over Islam and Israel weeks before his death. Thalasinos got into an argument with Syed Rizwan Farook several weeks prior to the shooting on Wednesday, which left 14 people dead and 21 injured, according to…
Four Israelis were wounded in three separate attacks on Friday. Two Israeli soldiers sustained minor injuries when a Palestinian assailant hit them with his car near the West Bank village of Silwad. The driver was shot at the scene, the Times of Israel reported. In a separate incident, a Palestinian attacker was shot dead after…
