A Muslim religious leader in Virginia said his mosque received a threatening phone call from someone claiming to be a member of a Jewish group. Imam Abu Nahidian, the religious leader at Manassas Mosque in northern Virginia, received the call in the wake of the shooting Thursday in San Bernadino, California, the Washington Post reported….
Israeli jets reportedly struck a Syrian army convoy north of Damascus. The raid, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 citing Arab media sources, reportedly targeted a convoy loaded with missiles after it had left an army base. Israel has been reported to have struck occasionally in Syria in the course of that country’s years-long civil war….
A Jewish man in southeast Denver discovered a swastika painted on the tailgate of his pickup truck. The man, who asked to remain anonymous, found the vandalism on Sunday in the parking lot of the Hunter’s Run apartment complex, the Intermountain Jewish News reported. No other messages or symbols were painted on the Ford vehicle,…
Israel is still trying to gather evidence against far-right Jews arrested for a lethal arson attack in July on a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, the public security minister said on Friday, playing down prospects of an imminent trial. A police announcement on Thursday that several “youths belonging to a Jewish terror group”…
One of the victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California has been identified as a Messianic Jew. Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a health department worker and colleague of the suspected shooter. Thalasinos was gunned down along with 13 others during a work holiday party. In a phone interview with The New York Times,…
Jewish souvenir vendors, some wearing yellow Stars of David pinned to their clothing, staged a protest against recent edicts barring street vendors from operating near the Vatican. About 100 mainly Jewish vendors, known as urtisti, gathered in front of the Vatican on Thursday bearing signs with slogans such as “History is repeating itself” and “Pope…
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush cited his brother, former President George W. Bush, as the person he turns to most for guidance on the U.S.-Israel relationship. Bush made the comment Thursday at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s candidates’ forum in Washington, D.C., in response to a question about the qualities he would look for in a…
Well, it had to happen. Today was the day the Jews got their turn with The Donald. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed BFF of Israel, came off as anything but mishpocheh when he started talking about the chosen people, money and the art the deal at the Republican Jewish Coalition conference Thursday in Washington….
A senior Israeli offical called on Germany on Thursday to urge other European countries to oppose EU plans to require products from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories to be so labeled. “Obviously, there is no question of Germany following this disastrous move,” Israeli Knesset speaker Yuli Yoel Edelstein told Reuters after a forum on…
New Yorker Lori Berenson, who was convicted of aiding leftist rebels in Peru 20 years ago, returned to her hometown on Thursday. Berenson, 46, emerged from a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport and said she was glad to be home after finishing a 20-year sentence for supporting the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or…
Donald Trump told Jewish Republicans that he didn’t expect their support in his bid for the presidency. “You’re not gonna support me even though you know I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel,” Trump said Thursday at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s candidates forum. “And I’ll be that. And I know why you’re…
