(JTA) — Mahmoud Abbas assured Dutch Jews that he neither intends to abandon the Oslo Accords nor insist on the absorption of millions of Palestinians into Israel. “We never said we were going to cancel the Oslo Accords,” Abbas said Friday during a meeting near The Hague with members of the Center for Information and…
Unidentified individuals destroyed nine headstones at a Dutch Jewish cemetery. The graves were knocked down at the Jewish cemetery of Oud-Beijerland near Rotterdam, 45 miles south of Amsterdam, and showed signs of vandalism, police said, according to a report on the incident that appeared on Wednesday in the Algemeen Dagblad daily. Police do not have…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Canada’s prime minister designate, Justin Trudeau, in a telephone call affirming the friendship between the two countries. The Canadian Press (CP) wire service reported that Rafael Barak, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, said the call from Netanyahu took place Oct. 23 and left his country assured that relations between Canada…
A Polish court said on Friday that it rejected a U.S. request to extradite film-maker Roman Polanski over a 1977 child sex conviction. The decision is not legally binding, as the prosecutors can now appeal the ruling. Should the court make a legally binding decision to grant the U.S. request, it will be up to…
Pope Francis said that attacks both on Jews and the state of Israel are anti-Semitic. “To attack Jews is anti-Semitism, but an outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism,” the pope said in a private meeting at the Vatican with Jewish leaders on Wednesday, according to a statement from the World Jewish…
A new poll has found that the majority of Israelis are dissatisfied with their government’s handling of foreign policy and believe Israel’s global standing is not good. The 2015 Israeli Foreign Policy Index of the Mitvim Institute, published on Thursday, reported widespread concern about Israel’s foreign affairs. The index was based on a public opinion…
Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian men whom the soldiers said had tried to stab them. The incident at Tapuach Junction in the West Bank occurred Friday morning, Army Radio reported. The soldiers were not injured. On Thursday, five Israelis, including an 8-month old baby and a pregnant woman, were lightly wounded in attacks…
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders embraced a Muslim student and referenced his Jewish background in condemning all forms of racism. In the Q&A portion of a town hall meeting at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Wednesday night, hijab-wearing senior Remaz Abdelgader identified herself as “an American Muslim student who aspires to change this world”…
(JTA) — After Marco Rubio’s strong performance in Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate, many Americans are taking a second look at the U.S. senator from Florida. Here are a few things American Jews might want to know about him. Rubio had humble beginnings — and rose quickly The junior senator was born in Miami in…
New Zealand has drafted a United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for Israel to stop building settlements in occupied territories and for the Palestinians to refrain from referring cases to the International Criminal Court. The two-page draft, seen by Reuters on Thursday, also asks both sides to avoid provocative acts and not to question…
A former senior vice president at AOL has been named the new COO of Hillel International. Hillel, the global Jewish college campus organization, announced its appointment of business sector veteran Adam Lehman in a statement on Tuesday. In addition to working at AOL, Lehman was previously the COO of advertising firm GeniusRocket, the founder of…
