Billionaire New York hedge fund investor Paul Singer has thrown his support behind presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio. Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida, is the only candidate who can “navigate this complex primary process, and still be in a position to defeat” Hillary Rodham Clinton in the November general election, Singer said in a…
The Jewish student organization Hillel Russia mourned a former program director who died aboard a Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt. Anna Tishinskaya,27, was en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg aboard a charter flight operated by the Russian Kogalymavia airline when it crashed in the Sinai peninsula on Saturday. All 224 passengers, most…
Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. An Israeli police spokeswoman said that at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank a Palestinian holding a knife ran…
A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Saturday, and a security officer at the scene said most passengers appeared to have been killed. The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to…
Thirty-eight letters and nine telegrams written by David Ben-Gurion to his lover in the 1930s will be auctioned off with a starting bid of $20,000. Israel’s Kedem Auction House will auction the Yiddish and Hebrew notes on Dec. 2, the Times of Israel reported. Ben-Gurion, who declared Israel’s statehood in 1948 and served as its…
New York police now believe a fellow student or faculty member murdered a yeshiva student in his dormitory in 1986. According to the New York Daily News, the killing of 15-year-old Chaim Weiss in the dormitory of Yeshiva of Long Beach, on Long Island, on Halloween night 29 years ago, remains “one of New York’s…
One of the wealthiest and most influential Jewish Republican donors is throwing his support behind the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the New York Times reported on Friday. Billionaire New York investor Paul Singer sent a letter to dozens of other donors on Friday declaring his support for Rubio in a…
Oscar-winning film-maker Roman Polanski said on Friday he was grateful and relieved after a Polish court rejected a U.S. request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex conviction. The case of the Polish-born Polanski, now 82, remains an international cause celebre nearly four decades after the crime, with some demanding harsh punishment and others…
(JTA)— A trendy London nightclub had its license suspended after a mass brawl there that involved anti-Semitic remarks. Bouji’s, which has hosted Kate Middleton and other celebrities, lost its license on Thursday, the International Business Times reported. The anti-Semitic brawl on Oct. 25, in which seven people were arrested, was the latest in a string…
(JTA) — A community board in Queens, New York voted 38-0 against a Chabad-Lubavitch plan to build a four-story school and community center in its neighborhood. Community Board 13 in Cambria Heights, a middle-class African-American neighborhood where the Chabad rebbe is buried, rejected the proposal on Monday, the Queens Chronicle reported. An organization affiliated with…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he did not mean to suggest the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews depended on the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem. In a post on his official Facebook page, Netanyahu said Friday that he wished to “clarify” the mufti’s relationship with the Nazis. Netanyahu prompted an uproar by saying in a…
