Israel has released at least nine West Bank Jews who were arrested as part of the investigation into the firebombing of a Palestinian home that left a baby and his father dead. At least nine people were arrested Sunday in raids on two West Bank outposts; the details on the raids are under a gag…
President Barack Obama said Iran must drop its anti-American and anti-Israel postures before it transitions into the international community. Obama defended the Iran nuclear deal in an interview posted Monday at Mic.Com, a news website aimed at millennials. “There’s going to have to be a transition inside of Iran, even if gradual, in which there’s…
Twenty-nine top U.S. scientists praised the Iran nuclear deal in a letter to President Barack Obama. Signers of the letter, which was sent Friday, include high-level nuclear scientists, physicists and Nobel laureates, The New York Times reported. Among them are Richard Garwin, a physicist who helped design the world’s first hydrogen bomb and a Washington…
A French watchdog against anti-Semitism condemned a Paris city council member who called to cancel a city festival dedicated to Tel Aviv. One day of the week-long Paris Plages festival, which will turn the banks of the Seine river into a beach and this year will devote each day to a beach in another country,…
Two Druze Israelis were indicted for murdering a wounded Syrian man being taken to an Israeli hospital in an ambulance. The two suspects, a man aged 22 and a woman aged 48, are from the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams. Video taken during the attack show the man beating the injured Syrian with a…
More than 150 Reform Jewish rabbis are marching with the NAACP from the Deep South to the U.S. capital to promote social justice. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis are participants in the NAACP’s Journey for Justice, an 860-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to Washington, D.C. The…
Doctors at an Israeli hospital refused to force feed a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for over 50 days. Following the refusals on Sunday, prisoner Mohammed Allaan was moved from Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba to the Barzalai Medical Center in Ashkelon, according to reports. Allaan, who has been held in…
CORRECTION: JTA is retracting this brief sent out yesterday; Roger Stone is not Jewish. The Donald Trump presidential campaign and Jewish adviser Roger Stone have parted ways. The Trump campaign claimed that it fired Stone, while Stone said he resigned. The split, reportedly over several controversies rocking the billionaire Republican’s bid for the White House,…
A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops after he stabbed an Israeli man at a West Bank gas station. The 26-year-old victim was slightly injured in the attack near Modiin, in central Israel, where he was filling up his car, the Israel Defense Forces said. He reportedly was attacked by a group of approximately…
President Barack Obama said he does not remember a time when a foreign leader interfered in a U.S. foreign policy debate the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has over the Iran nuclear deal. “On the substance, the prime minister is wrong on this,” Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview conducted Thursday but…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced his support for the Iran nuclear deal. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, offered his backing in a statement Friday following a telephone conversation with President Barack Obama, who addressed some of his concerns, Sanders said. He talked about his decision during an interview aired Sunday morning on the…
