A shirtless man using a baseball bat smashed the glass front doors of a South Florida synagogue. A surveillance video showed the man vandalizing Temple Beth Torah in Wellington. He also smashed a church, as well as 17 parked cars, according to reports. The attack occurred in the wee hours of Sunday. “That’s always a…
NEW YORK (JTA) – It may be America’s most iconic kosher brand, famous for its hot dogs that in the words of its unforgettable ad slogan, “answer to a higher authority.” So consumers might be confused to find videos on Hebrew National’s homepage suggesting they grill up their kosher franks with some bacon or halloumi…
U.S. authorities said Thursday they plan to announce the recovery of a rare Stradivarius violin that was stolen in 1980 from the late virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg after a performance. A spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara confirmed that authorities would hold a ceremony to turn the violin over to Totenberg’s family after the…
Employees at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport said they will hold a Shabbat strike. The 25-hour work stoppage from Friday evening until Saturday night would affect 200 departing flights and 30,000 passengers. Flights will arrive at the airport as scheduled, according to reports. The strike, which would come during the height of the Israeli travel…
Three Israelis were injured, two seriously, in a suspected terror attack in the West Bank when a car intentionally rammed pedestrians. The incident occurred Thursday afternoon near the Shiloh settlement located north of Ramallah. The two seriously hurt pedestrians sustained head and chest injuries and were on respirators, according to reports. Israeli soldiers fired at…
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to repair the damaged relations with U.S. President Barack Obama. “I think they are very similar in nature, and are able to upset each other,” Rivlin told the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot in an interview, one of several he gave this week to the Israeli media….
(JTA) — The head of the extremist Lehava anti-co-existence group said he supports the burning of churches and mosques. Rabbi Bentzi Gopstein made the statement during a symposium on the topic of halacha, or Jewish religious law on Tuesday night at the Wolfson Yeshiva in Jerusalem. The statement was first reported Wednesday evening by the haredi…
At least four Palestinians were killed and more than 30 wounded in southern Gaza when unexploded ordnance from last summer’s war with Israel was moved. The rocket went off while rubble was being cleared from a home in Rafah in order to begin reconstruction, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. The four killed were all…
Five people were injured, one of them seriously, when a walkway bridge collapsed at a kosher hotel in Switzerland. The accident occurred on Tuesday at the Metropol Hotel, a four-star establishment that opened 80 years ago in the Alpine town of Arosa, the online edition of the Tachles Jewish weekly reported. The person seriously injured…
The last defendant charged in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme was sentenced to six months in prison. Irwin Lipkin, who pleaded guilty to faking records while comptroller for Madoff’s firm, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, The Associated Press reported. Lipkin, 77, cited health problems in pleading to be spared jail time, according…
At least one of the three suspected Jewish terrorists facing administrative detention in Israel has American citizenship, his parents said. Gedalia and Sarah Meyer, whose 18-year-old son, Mordechai, is in custody without being formally charged in the aftermath of the firebombing last week that killed a Palestinian toddler, referenced their family’s U.S. citizenship on Wednesday…
