U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey became second the Senate Democrat to oppose the Iran nuclear deal. The announcement by Menendez, the senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, came Tuesday during a speech at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. Charles Schumer of New York was the first Senate Democrat…
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said he does not regret his that in forging a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama is “marching Israelis to the door of the oven.” In a speech Tuesday in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, the site of what is believed to be the first capital of the…
A Jewish girls school in London was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti for the second time in just over a month. A Nazi swastika, alongside the words “Yid s**t,” was found scrawled on the fence outside the Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls School in the northeast part of the city on Monday, The Independent reported. London police…
A Jerusalem-based group announced the opening of the first Jewish kindergarten in decades in the Polish city of Lodz. Shavei Israel, which tries to bring people with Jewish roots back into the Jewish fold, said Monday that the kindergarten would open in partnership with the city’s Jewish community of a few hundred members. The first…
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has become the first transgender person to be hired by the White House, reported the A Jewish woman from Brookline, Massachusetts, Freedman-Gurspan was a member of the Jewish Students’ Organization at St. Olaf College in St. Paul Minnesota, where she completed her undergraduate studies. In her Facebook profile picture, she wears a necklace…
The Museum of the Bible, set to open in Washington, D.C., in 2017, will house a large collection from the Israel Antiquities Authority. The authority, which oversees archaeological digs in Israel, will have a 4,000 square-foot exhibit space in the museum to show pieces from its collection of 2 million artifacts. The exhibit will be…
A Palestinian on a hunger strike against his detention without trial was brought out of sedation in an Israeli hospital on Tuesday and vowed to continue his fast, one of his lawyers said. The condition of Islamic Jihad activist Mohammed Allan, who began to refuse food two months ago, is being closely monitored by opposing…
Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest known Jewish person, died at age 114. Steinberg, according to Chabad.org, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s news site, died Sunday at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach, New York. She was two months away from her 115th birthday. Steinberg was born in 1900, one of eight siblings. As…
Israel’s Diaspora Ministry is establishing a committee to develop relations with groups that have Jewish ancestry or ties. Such groups include the Bnei Menashe, a community from eastern India that practices Judaism and has seen thousands of its members move to Israel and convert to Orthodox Judaism. Other groups with Jewish ancestry exist in Poland,…
Temperatures in Israel topped 110 degrees as the country experienced its hottest August in five years. This week, according to Israeli news site Ynetnews, temperatures across Israel rose above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The northern town of Tzemach experienced heat of 111 degrees, while the temperature in the West Bank settlement of Gilgal reached 115 degrees….
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the United States Congress would likely not muster the two-thirds majority needed to reject the recent accord over Iran’s nuclear program. To reject the agreement, a majority of Congress would need to vote against it, which is likely, and then garner a two-thirds majority to overcome President Obama’s promised…
