Parents and former students are suing four New York State yeshivas, the state and the local school district for not providing students with an adequate secular education. The class-action lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, The Journal News reported. The seven plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary damages and want the four all-boys…
The four Palestinian terrorists who shot and killed the Israeli couple Eitam and Naama Henkin in a West Bank ambush originally planned to kidnap them. New information revealed in indictments served to the four attackers on Thursday describe the violent Oct. 1 incident on the Jewish settlers in detail, the Times of Israel reported. Yahia…
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on Friday after 30 years in a U.S. prison, receiving a muted response from Israel’s prime minister in a case that has strained relations between the two allies. Pollard, a former civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 1987…
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump confirmed his support for a database to track American Muslims. Asked about a statement earlier in the week that he was open to the idea, Trump confirmed Thursday night that he would move to require Muslims to register with the government if he were elected. “I would certainly implement that….
The Anti-Defamation League reported a 30 percent jump in anti-Israel activity on college campuses this year. According to a report released Wednesday, over 150 “explicitly ant-Israel programs” have either taken place or are scheduled to take place on American campuses. Last year, the corresponding figure was 105. The increase follows an identical 30 percent increase…
The head of the Israeli parliament caucus dedicated to Jonathan Pollard promised to fight restrictions on the freed spy’s movements. “Jonathan, the caucus will not cease its activity until we remove the limitations imposed on you upon your release,” lawmaker Nahman Shai wrote in a letter to Pollard on Friday, according to the Times of…
A Jewish primary school in Gateshead, England, was evacuated due to a bomb scare. Students were sent home early and the police detonated a suspicious package in a controlled explosion, according to reports. Located in northern England, Gateshead is the home of the Gateshead Yeshiva, Europe’s largest yeshiva, and the city has a large community…
Joel Laloux, the former owner of the Bataclan concert hall who now lives in Israel, denied the venue was targeted because he is Jewish. Laloux, who sold the Paris venue where 89 people were killed on Friday night before moving to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, told the news agency AFP that neither his…
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders accused Israel of “overreacting” during its 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza and lauded the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a controversial figure in the Jewish community. In a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone magazine published Wednesday, the Vermont senator also said he believes in God but is “not into organized religion.”…
Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, is in talks to become the newspaper’s Jerusalem bureau chief. Baker is considered to be the leading candidate for the job, unnamed sources told CNN Money on Wednesday. Jodi Rudoren, who has held the post since 2012, is nearing the end of her…
The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama’s program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday…
