Jon Stewart wrapped up his long-running “The Daily Show” on Thursday with effusive tributes to his show’s staff, many on hand to see him off while political and media luminaries who served as some of the satirist’s favorite targets, from Bill O’Reilly to Hillary Clinton, appeared on tape. Stewart, whose Comedy Central show racked up…
An Albuquerque, New Mexico man who made anti-Semitic threats against the Jewish owner of a local Jewish deli pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor hate crime. John W. Ng, 58, pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to four years probation, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New…
A handful of Haredi men visited Tel Aviv’s Gay Center to express solidarity following the deadly stabbing last week at Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade. The delegation of Haredim, or fervently Orthodox Jews, who came together and organized the visit as part of a grassroots initiative, arrived at the center at Gan Meir on Wednesday, Haaretz…
Porat passed away Thursday in her home, i24 News reported. Porat won the prestigious Israel Prize in 1979 for a lifetime of achievement in theater as well as Yedioth Ahronoth’s Kinor David prize in 1970, 1974 and 1980. Born in Germany as Irene Klein, she moved to pre-state Israel with her Jewish husband in 1947….
Republicans in their first presidential debates said they would undo the Iran nuclear deal. “What happened in Iran is a disgrace and it’s going to lead to destruction in huge parts of the world,” Donald Trump, the real estate magnate leading in the polls, said Thursday In the second of two debates broadcast by Fox…
U.S. President Barack Obama’s hopes of preserving the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers were dealt a setback on Thursday when Chuck Schumer, one of the top Democrats in the U.S. Senate, said he would the oppose the agreement. Schumer’s opposition, announced in a lengthy statement, could pave the way for more of Obama’s…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said she would back what she called an “imperfect” Iran nuclear deal. Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York, said in a statement Thursday that Iran was likelier to obtain a nuclear weapon sooner should Congress kill the deal. “Iran will still be disruptive in the Middle East and fund terrorist…
Hillel President Eric Fingerhut will address J Street students about combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel on campuses. Fingerhut, who pulled out of addressing a J Street conference in March, reportedly under donor pressure, will address the summer leadership institute of J Street’s Campus affiliate, J Street U, on Aug. 17, a…
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, reportedly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for urging American Jews to fight the Iran deal. “I think that Israeli officials should make the case on the content and the substance of the Iran deal and we will do a good…
Argentina’s former president is among 13 defendants who have gone on trial for bribery and hindering the investigation into the deadly 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Ex-President Carlos Menem did not appear in person on Thursday, the opening day of the trial in a Buenos Aires federal court, due to…
A Gaza court sentenced a man to death for collaborating with Israel. On Thursday, a military court ordered the 30-year-old to be hanged for cooperating with “enemy entities,” the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. A year ago, 18 accused collaborators were killed by Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, for cooperating with Israel.
