Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, said on Friday that he will support the nuclear deal with Iran. “This is a good deal for America and our allies, including Israel, one of our closest allies. And, oh yes. It beats the likely alternative – war with Iran – hands down,” Carper wrote in an…
A British Jewish group asked the country’s high court to review a municipality’s decision last year to support a boycott of products from the West Bank. Jonathan Neumann, director of Jewish Human Rights Watch — a group devoted to monitoring efforts to boycott Israel — earlier this month filed with the High Court of Justice…
Fifteen percent of West Bank settlers are American citizens. According to an Oxford University professor, approximately 60,000 American Jews live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday. “This provides hard evidence that this constituency is strikingly over-represented, both within the settler population itself and within the total population of Jewish American immigrants…
Democrats are confident they will have enough votes to protect the Iran nuclear deal in the U.S. Congress, but they face an uphill task to avoid President Barack Obama having to use his veto power to ensure the agreement’s survival. “We’re getting close,” said Senator Richard Durbin, who as Minority Whip is the Democrats’ chief…
The prince of Monaco apologized for his country’s treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. In a speech Thursday at a Monaco cemetery, Prince Albert II asked Jews to forgive the tiny country on the French Riviera for its police rounding up Jews for deportation 73 years ago, The Associated Press reported. Many of those Jews…
Day camp supervisors at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit failed to notify senior management last summer after an employee voiced concerns about a camp counselor now charged with production, distribution and possession of child pornography. In a statement issued Thursday, the JCC said it discovered last Friday that camp supervisors had in 2014…
Alan Gill, the CEO of the American Joint Distribution Committee, will step down in 2016. Gill, 63, was appointed CEO of the JDC, which is a partner of the Jewish Federations of North America and one of the world’s largest Jewish relief aid organizations, in 2012. He will remain an executive advieor to the organization…
Princeton University will install an eruv around its campus and part of its surrounding town. Rev. Dr. Alison L. Boden, Princeton’s dean of religious life, and Rabbi Julie Roth, the school’s Jewish chaplain and Hillel director, announced in an email to the campus community on Tuesday that the eruv will be completed in two to…
Star conductor Daniel Barenboim is holding talks to take one of Germany’s main orchestras to Iran, his employer Berlin State Opera said on Thursday, in the face of angry protests from Israel. The opera said the plans by its Israeli-Argentinian musical director had the full backing of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, setting up a…
Kosher hot dog brand Hebrew National will no longer post videos with non-kosher dishes on its website, JTA has learned. A Hebrew National official wrote to JTA in an email Wednesday that the company’s website and social media accounts “will no longer feature non-kosher toppings and hot dog combinations.” The email comes after an Aug….
Prosecutors in Kansas rested their case on Thursday in the murder trial of a white supremacist after playing a recorded call in which he expressed surprise the three people fatally shot outside two Jewish centers last year were not Jewish. Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan who is…
