f you want to get a flavor of Trevor Noah’s “The Daily Show,” just take a look at his first guests – especially singer Ryan Adams. Not only is Adams an alternative musician, poet and painter, but he’s also just released an innovative cover version of Taylor Swift’s best-selling album “1989.” “He has taken something…
(JTA) — The Republican Jewish establishment is watching the surge of political outsiders — like Donald Trump and Ben Carson — in the presidential primaries with dismay. “It’s like we have a conference call every morning, and we ask, ‘What can we do to screw ourselves up today?’” said Fred Zeidman, a longtime fundraiser for…
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius unveiled the sign of the first street in Lithuania named for a non-Jew who risked her life to save Jews from the Holocaust. The Sept. 22 ceremony was at Simaites Street, where a heavily Jewish crowd of several dozen people convened to honor Ona Šimaitė, a Vilnius University librarian whose actions…
(JTA) — Why the Jews want etrogs, Mohammed Douch does not entirely understand. What he does know is that they are his main customers. Each August and September, Jewish merchants come from around the world to his remote grove in the highlands of Morocco — an hourlong hike through mountains, over rocks and along cliffsides….
The oldest Jewish congregation in America said it “categorically denies” allegations by an employee that she was fired because she was pregnant at the time of her wedding. Congregation Shearith Israel, the New York synagogue popularly known as the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and founded in 1654, in a news release Friday refuted the claims…
A pro-Palestinian minister spoke at an alternative location after an upstate New York divinity school revoked a speaking invitation over death threats and local Jewish opposition. The Rev. Graylan Hagler, a senior minister of the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, spoke Thursday night at the German House in Rochester under the auspices of Jewish…
Israel struck Syrian army targets on the Golan Heights on Sunday, sources on both sides said, and Israel said it was retaliating for cross-border rocket fire from the Syrian war next door. Rebel sources in southern Syria and a British-based monitoring group said at least three Israeli air strikes had hit army sites near the…
Israeli police and Palestinians clashed on Sunday at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound, where violence in recent weeks has raised international concern. No injuries or arrests were initially reported, after Palestinian youths, chanting “God is great,” threw rocks at police in riot gear, who responded with what a spokeswoman described as “appropriate riot dispersal means.” She…
Welterweight boxer Dustin Fleischer defeated his opponent in Saturday night’s bout, bringing his career total to 4-0 with four knockouts. Fleischer, known as The White Tiger, defeated Native American boxer Ira Frank in Beach Haven, New Jersey, with a first round knockout, he reported after the fight on his Facebook page, Jewish fans in North…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin met in Jerusalem for the first time in more than two months. The meeting on Friday, reported on Sunday, was considered routine, and covered the regional diplomatic situation, recent news developments, the fight against terror, and the current security situation in Jerusalem, according to reports. The…
Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party who has been accused of being anti-Israel, has said that Osama Bin Laden was framed for 9/11. Corbyn claimed in a 2003 article for the London-based Morning Star newspaper, a Socialist publication, that 9/11 was “manipulated” by the United States and Britain to make it…
באַזונדערש רירנדיק דאָ זײַנען די בילדער פֿון משפּחה־רײַבונגען, פֿון באַגעגענישן װאָס ברענגען נישט צו קײן עמאָציאָנעלע פֿאַרשטענדיקונגען.
