A report by Palestinian parents that their 6-year-old son was wounded by a gunshot to his stomach in a settler attack in the West Bank was fabricated. The Israel Defense Forces said that an investigation found that the boy shot in the Palestinian city of Qalqilya, located next to the central Israeli city of Kfar…
Spain granted citizenship to some 4,302 people who identified themselves as descendants of Sephardic Jews. The citizenships were approved on Friday, the Associated Press reported, following the Spanish parliament’s adoption earlier this year of a law granting citizenship to the descendants of Jews who fled or were expelled from Spain ahead of and during the…
Several Palestinian suspects were arrested in connection with the murder of an Israeli couple in the West Bank. The suspects were arrested in the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus early Saturday morning during a joint operation of the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service, the IDF said in a statement. Nablus…
A meat production plant in Poland can build a high-rise apartment building on the grounds of a Jewish cemetery. The Bialystok City Council rejected a zoning plan on Monday that would have prevented the plant’s expansion proposal. The vote was 12-8 with one abstention. “In the center of Bialystok there were six cemeteries,” council member…
An Arab Israeli Knesset member said Jews have no proven historical connection to the Temple Mount and no reason to visit it. In an interview Friday in a Hebrew-language publication, Joint Arab List MK Hanin Zoabi said, “The name is al-Aqsa, not the Temple Mount, and there is nothing there for Jews,” the Times of…
An Orthodox Brooklyn woman is suing the Lucille Roberts fitness chain for denying her entry to a kickboxing class because she was wearing a skirt. Yosefa Jalal, 25, said she was harassed, threatened with arrest and had her membership revoked from the women’s-only gym when she insisted on following Judaism’s standards of modesty. “I think…
(JTA) — All anyone attending the United Nations General Assembly opening seemed to want to talk about was the threat posed to the world by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. That was much to the consternation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who argued in his speech before that body on Thursday that Iran,…
From murderers to sex offenders, some of the least desirable citizens of Maryland’s Montgomery County have walked through the doors of attorney Barry Helfand’s office. But it took a quiet teenager to make Helfand question his responsibility as a lawyer. Sitting in Helfand’s Rockville office this spring, 18-year-old Sebastian Espinoza-Carranza detailed how he, along with…
An Israeli police officer, three Jewish settlers and two Palestinians were injured in riots and clashes in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A Palestinian rioter hit the officer from the Israel Police’s Border Police division in his head on Friday, Army Radio reported, during confrontations near the Lions’ Gate in Jerusalem. Earlier on Friday, two…
A French Jewish lobby group urged the publisher of the French language’s definitive dictionary to change its characterization of the Promised Land as “present-day Palestine.” The National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, on Thursday called on Editions Larousse, the publisher of the Larousse line of dictionaries and encyclopedias, to amend its “My First…
Referencing a negative view of non-medical circumcision of boys, the Council of Europe recommended the custom be banned except when performed by “a person with the requisite training and skill.” The recommendation appeared in a resolution passed Wednesday by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which is a pan-European intergovernmental organization based in…
באַזונדערש רירנדיק דאָ זײַנען די בילדער פֿון משפּחה־רײַבונגען, פֿון באַגעגענישן װאָס ברענגען נישט צו קײן עמאָציאָנעלע פֿאַרשטענדיקונגען.
