Israel carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Palestinian militants there fired rockets into southern Israel. The early morning air strikes targeted two training camps belonging to the Islamist group Hamas, causing no injuries, officials and witnesses said. Gaza militants fired at least two rockets into Israel late on Friday, Israeli…
(JTA) — Thanks to a recent CNN poll and an article in Mashable that trumpets its findings, the word is out that 1 percent of Americans believe President Barack Obama is Jewish. Of course, Obama is not Jewish. He’s Protestant and has attended several different churches in Washington, D.C. since becoming president. Yet the CNN…
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn, the new head of Britain’s opposition Labor Party, has many of the makings of a hero for British Jews. A Labor lawmaker with over 30 years of experience, Corbyn passionately and eloquently defends blue-collar Britain, multiculturalism and a left-of-center notion of social justice. These are issues that resonate with Britain’s 250,000-strong…
Israeli right-wing activists are taking credit for preventing the human rights organization B’Tselem from receiving a 100,000 Euro award from the Dutch government. Burmese human rights activist Phyoe Phyoe Aung ranked first in the online voting for the Dutch Human Rights Tulip 2015, the results of which were announced on Thursday. B’Tselem, which had led…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came under fire on Friday from Republican and Democratic rivals and the White House for not correcting a man who called President Barack Obama a Muslim at a Trump campaign event. Trump, who in the past has expressed doubts about whether Obama was born in the United States, was told…
Organizers of a concert by the American pop star Pharrell Williams have abandoned their legal action against pro-Palestinian demonstrators protesting against his presence there. The Sun International hotel group launched an urgent court interdict on Monday to limit the number of protesters outside Williams’ Sept. 21 concert in Cape Town, according to ewn.co.za. But the…
Ronald O. Perelman, an American Jewish billionaire who in February became chairman of Carnegie Hall, announced he will leave the post. Perelman told a group of his fellow trustees on Thursday that he would step down next month, rather than run for re-election as the head of the eminent concert venue in New York City,…
European soccer body UEFA has upheld its decision to deduct a point from Croatia’s Euro 2016 qualifying tally for a racist incident in June. “UEFA’s Appeals Body has upheld the decision to dock Croatia one point for racist behavior at their qualifying Group H game against Italy,” UEFA said on Friday. “The appeal by the…
In a reference to the Republican Party debate, Iran’s Supreme Leader’s decried on Twitter that “presidential candidates try to satisfy Zionists.” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei referred to Wednesday night’s CNN-sponsored debate in a tweet on Thursday, part of a series of anti-Israel tweets. In a follow-up tweet, Khamenei reiterated a claim he made earlier this month…
Israel deployed hundreds of extra police around the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday after Palestinian leaders called for a ‘day of rage’ to protest at new Israeli security measures. Around 800 extra police were posted in the heart of the city and adjacent Arab neighborhoods, where tensions have been high for the past week,…
Three fresh-faced children appear on the TV screen and, to the sound of kiddie piano music, declare that they want Greece to belong to the Greeks. Golden Dawn, on Greece’s extreme far right, is the only answer to what they see as a creeping takeover by foreigners, the ad implies. A little later, clips from…
