A request for state aid from a Belz Hasidic school in London was rejected weeks after the school’s threat to ban students whose mothers drive stirred controversy. The Hackney Council said it decided not to grant the Beis Malka School Voluntary Aided status due to the amount of money the school requires for new building…
(JTA) — Honor thy father and mother, says the Torah. In the case of the sons of convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, that means requesting a presidential pardon. Brothers Michael and Robert Meeropol penned an op-ed in the New York Times Monday asking President Barack Obama to acknowledge that their mother, Ethel Rosenberg, was…
A far-right Jewish activist and onetime Knesset candidate attacked the Israeli defense minister’s car in the West Bank city of Hebron. Calling Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon an “enemy of the settlements” who was “strong against Jews and weak against Arabs,” Baruch Marzel jumped on the minister’s car while Yaalon was visiting the Tomb of the…
Donald Sterling, the disgraced former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is suing celebrity gossip site TMZ and ex-girlfriend V. Stiviano. Sterling, the former basketball team owner, filed suit against the two in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday, the Washington Post reported. Sterling’s suit alleges that Stiviano “illicitly” recorded a phone conversation without his knowledge….
Two young Jewish women from Brooklyn were killed and two others seriously injured in an Arizona car accident. The vehicle’s driver, Raizel Morgenstern, 23, and a passenger, Hindy Spira, 27, both of the Borough Park neighborhood, were killed Monday afternoon when their rented Jeep Cherokee was hit by a tractor-trailer in Holbrook, the Daily News…
Neely Tal Snyder, a Jewish educator and advocate who was known for her professional dedication, was killed in a car crash. Snyder, 37, was waiting to make a left turn on Route 30 in Reistertown, Maryland, near the Pearlstone Center, where she was the program director, on Monday morning when a tractor-trailer struck her car…
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that illegal migrants can only be held in a Negev detention facility for 12 months while a law is revised. The provision in the current “anti-infiltration law” allowing the migrants to be held for up to 20 months at the Holot detention center is “disproportionate,” the court said. The Knesset…
Israel Police questioned the head of the Lehava anti-coexistence group, days after he said he supports the burning of churches and mosques. Rabbi Bentzi Gopstein was released on Tuesday after being asked “about his comments regarding the burning of churches,” a police spokesman told the French news agency AFP. Gopstein has not been linked to…
A captured Hamas fighter has provided information to Israeli security services about the location of tunnels between Gaza and Israel, planned attacks on Israel and the Hamas-Iran connection. Ibrahim Shaer, 21, from Rafah in Gaza, was captured in a joint operation of the Shin Bet security service and the Israeli army in early July, the…
Michael Bloomberg said President Barack Obama’s arguments in defense of the Iran nuclear deal are simplistic. “Overstating the case for the agreement belies the gravity of the issue and does more to breed distrust than win support,” the former New York mayor, now reinstalled at the helm of his media empire, said Tuesday in a…
Fiamma Nirenstein, an Italian journalist and former parliamentarian, has been named Israel’s ambassador to Italy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also serves as Israel’s foreign minister, announced the decision to appoint Nirenstein on Monday. Nirenstein, 70, who moved to Israel in 2013 and received citizenship, would assume the post next summer if approved. Upon her…
