The University of Strasbourg decided to hand over to the French city’s Jewish community the remains of Holocaust victims that were preserved as anatomy specimens. The remains, preserved in several glass containers, were discovered on July 9 at the university’s Institute of Forensic Medicine by historian Raphael Toledano, after years of research and denials of…
Wondering if we are alone in the universe has engaged minds through the ages. Add to the list Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who announced on Monday that he plans to spend $100 million to explore the idea. Using some of the world’s largest radio telescopes, a team of scientists handpicked by Milner will oversee an…
President Barack Obama’s administration sent a nuclear agreement with Tehran to Congress on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. lawmakers to reject a deal he said would only feed an “Iranian terror machine.” In a first concrete sign of European determination to quickly rebuild economic and political ties with Iran after a…
Two Jerusalem Rabbinical Court officials are under investigation for allegedly asking for and receiving bribes from a father in a custody case. The officials, Rabbi Saar Mizrachi and Yaakov Sebag, are suspected of brokering bribes, fraudulently obtaining benefits and obstruction of justice, Ynet reported. The Hebrew-language daily Yediot Acharonot, which runs Ynet, was the first…
An Israeli advocacy NGO has asked Israel’s Supreme Court to protect women’s rights at the mikvah, or ritual bath. The ITIM Advocacy Center filed a complaint with the court Sunday on behalf of 13 married Orthodox women against the Chief Rabbinate and the Jerusalem Religious Council, calling for women to be allowed to use the…
The Missouri white supremacist charged with murdering three people at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City last year told a court that the killings were necessary and his “right.” Frazier Glenn Miller, 74, who is representing himself, appeared in U.S. District Court in Johnson County, Kansas, on Friday. Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan said Miller…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will visit Israel on the first leg of a trip to three Middle Eastern nations. Carter will arrive in Israel on Sunday, where he “will work with Israel to further explore ongoing efforts to identify solutions to some of their most critical security challenges — countering Iran’s destabilizing activities…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing his attack on the Iran nuclear deal, said the agreement has not changed Iran’s policy of calling for armed struggle against Israel and the United States. “If someone thought that the extraordinary concessions to Iran would lead to a change in its policy, they received an unequivocal answer over…
Israeli security forces arrested a Hamas terrorist cell suspected of a West Bank shooting attack that left one Israeli civilian dead. Among the seven members of the cell taken into custody on Sunday, according to the Shin Bet, are the alleged gunman who killed Malachi Rosenfeld, 25, and a Hamas member who was freed in…
Buckingham Palace scolded Rupert Murdoch’s top-selling Sun tabloid on Saturday for publishing a previously unknown film from 1933 that appears to show Britain’s Queen Elizabeth performing a Nazi salute as a young girl. The black-and-white film from the year Adolf Hitler came to power purports to show future British king Edward VIII instructing his nieces,…
“Wild Tales” by Jewish Argentinian director Damian Szifron won Best Movie at the second annual “Premios Platino,” the equivalent of the Oscars for Iberoamerica, made up of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Szifron, 40, whose movie also was nominated for a foreign-language film Oscar in the 2014 Academy Awards, also won as Best Director, a…
