Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on Wednesday linking a Muslim leader to the Holocaust were not supported by scholarly evidence, the State Department said, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left Washington for talks on ending weeks of Palestinian-Israeli violence. Netanyahu, speaking just before the start of a visit to Germany, said that…
Assemblymember Deborah Glick and her spouse, Leslie Sharpe, at Monday’s SAGE gala at Gotham Hall. Photo: Cathy Renna Living history and herstory took center stage at New York City’s storied Gotham Hall for a major celebration of LGBT rights and service Monday night. Two of the honorees — and even one of the presenters —…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped back from his earlier claim that the grand mufti of Jerusalem convinced Hitler to exterminate Jews. At a news conference Wednesday in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Netanyahu modified comments made a day earlier in Jerusalem concerning Haj Amin al-Husseini, Haaretz reported. Netanyahu emphasized that Hitler bore responsibility for…
All 19 Jewish House lawmakers slammed UNESCO for its vote charging Israel with changing the status quo at a Jerusalem holy site. “The continued false allegations against Israel as having violated the status quo at the Temple Mount, which is under the custodianship of Jordan and the Wakf Muslim religious trust, and blaming Israel for…
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday but after two days of discussions in the region appeared no nearer to ending weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence. At a news conference with Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Ban denounced “hateful discourse” on both sides and said Israel’s…
The Eritrean migrant mistaken for an assailant during a terrorist attack at the Beersheba bus station died from gunshot wounds, not from the beatings he sustained by Israelis. The results of the autopsy on Haftom Zarhum, 29, who died at Beersheba’s Soroka hospital several hours after the Sunday night attack, were released on Wednesday. The…
Vice President Joe Biden, perhaps the closest Obama administration official to the pro-Israel community, said he is not running for president. Biden appeared Wednesday with his wife, Jill, and President Barack Obama at the White House to deliver his announcement. Speculation has mounted for weeks that Biden, whose son Beau’s wish before dying in May…
The copyright on Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” will expire at the end of this year, leaving the work open to French and German reprint editions. The French publisher Fayard announced in a statement that it will release an annotated French version. The Institute of Contemporary History in Munich will publish the German reprint. Both reissues…
The United Nations cultural agency in a resolution condemned Israel for what it said are attempts to break the status quo at the Temple Mount, but did not stick to plans to label it a Muslim site. However, the resolution approved on Wednesday morning in Paris by the executive board of the United Nations Educational,…
Three young Europeans – two Muslims and a Jew – met with Obama administration and congressional officials to press for action against anti-Semitism in Europe. The three activists were in Washington this week to receive this year’s Human Rights First Award, bestowed by the group of the same name. The activists are: Jane Braden-Golay, a…
Most heads of Jewish community day schools are not themselves day school alumni, and most have been in the job for five years or less. Those are among the findings of a new survey of heads of schools by Ravsak, the network of Jewish community day schools that are not affiliated with a specific Jewish…
דעבאָראַ בראָדי, אַ לערערין פֿון קינדער מיט ספּעציעלע באַדערפֿענישן, האָט זיי געלאָזט אָנטאַפּן די זאַכן.
