Israel said it killed at least five Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday, after cross-border rocket fire from Syria prompted the heaviest Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria’s four-year-old civil war. An Israeli defense official said the people killed in Friday’s air strike were Palestinian militants from…
As he weighed whether to support President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, Representative Donald Norcross was showered with the sort of attention rarely shown to junior members of the U.S. Congress. The New Jersey Democrat, a former labor union leader, met with Obama and other Democrats twice in the White House. He listened to…
Billionaire investor Ira Rennert failed to persuade a federal judge to throw out a jury verdict finding him liable for looting his now-defunct magnesium company to build one of the country’s most expensive homes, on the east end of Long Island, New York. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan on Thursday upheld all but…
The man who fatally stabbed Czech Jewish heritage researcher Jiri Fiedler and his wife was sentenced to 28 years in prison. Dalibor Skopan, 29, attacked the couple with a knife in their Prague apartment in March 2014. Skopan confessed and said he needed money to avoid living homeless in the street. He also expressed regret…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to the Jewish Agency for Israel indicating his support for a renewed joint initiative between Israel and the Jewish world, JTA has learned, two weeks after the agency withdrew from a similar initiative in protest. In a letter sent earlier this month, Natan Sharansky and Chuck Ratner, the chairman…
The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief on Thursday rejected as “a misrepresentation” suggestions Iran would inspect its own Parchin military site on the agency’s behalf, an issue that could help make or break Tehran’s nuclear deal with big powers. Without International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmation that Iran is keeping promises enshrined in the landmark July…
(JTA) — Forget the Iron Dome defense system and the rest of Israel’s formidable military – Hamas is worried about Israeli spy-dolphins. The Palestinian daily Al-Quds reported this week that Hamas captured a dolphin outfitted with Israeli “spying equipment.” Hamas’ naval wing reportedly tracked down the dolphin, which gave itself away through its “suspicious movements,” a…
Rockets that struck an northern Israeli village near the Lebanese border on Thursday, causing no casualties, were launched from the Syrian Golan Heights, the Israeli army said. The statement described an unusually long-range attack: Previous launches from within Syria, whether deliberate or stray fire from the civil war there, hit the Israeli-held Golan without reaching…
The Ruderman Family Foundation recognized five Jewish organizations that integrate people with disabilities into their services and programs. The Ruderman Prize in Inclusion, which awards $50,000 to each recipient, aims for communities around the world to replicate the integration models created by the prize winners. This year’s recipients are: The Yavne Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay,…
A Spanish public broadcaster accused Jews of promoting Satanism. The assertion was the focus of a radio program titled “From the Inferno — The Jewish People: Propagator of the Satan Cult” aired last month by the state-owned RTVE broadcaster as part of its weekend “A la Carta” program. The program begins with ominous music, followed…
A White House spokesman said the administration was “confident” in an agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran that would reportedly let Iran’s hand-picked inspectors examine a suspected weapons site. The Associated Press reported Wednesday on an agreement signed between the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran that would let experts…
