Birthright Israel dedicated a memorial site in northern Israel to Max Steinberg, an American who died fighting for the Jewish state. The site was established at the ancient synagogue in the Arbel nature reserve in the lower Galilee, where a ceremony was held Thursday, the organization said. On hand were the late soldier’s family, soldiers…
A Holocaust refugee-turned-Wall Street financial adviser has been invited to mark her 100th birthday next month by ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Irene Bergman, 99, is still working and would be one of the oldest people ever to open or close the trading day in the exchange, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday….
Newly unsealed court records may provide fodder for those who believe Ethel Rosenberg was wrongly convicted and executed. Rosenberg and her husband Julius, who were Jewish, were famously put to death in 1953 in Ossining, New York, for conspiring to share atomic secrets with the Soviet Union. The potentially exculpatory material is in testimony by…
(JTA) — AIPAC called on Congress to reject the Iran nuclear deal, saying it does not meet critical markers that the influential pro-Israel lobby outlined in recent weeks. But the liberal Jewish Middle East lobby J Street announced a multimillion-dollar campaign to support the agreement. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee made its case against…
Democrats in Congress said on Wednesday they were warming to the nuclear agreement with Iran, and Vice President Joe Biden, sent to Capitol Hill to pitch the deal, said he was optimistic it would not be blocked by the majority Republicans who oppose it. “I think we’ll be all right,” Biden told reporters after a…
An 82-year-old Jewish woman from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn was forced to swear on a Jewish bible that she wouldn’t call the police on her alleged rapist and physical attacker, Asa Robert, the . Over the course of four hours, he punched her, slammed her into a wall, chocked her, and raped her. On his way…
Israel’s Knesset voted down a bill that would allow judges to more easily sentence a terrorist to death. By a vote of 94-6, the bill was rejected in its first reading on Wednesday. The six votes came from members of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, which proposed the measure, The Jerusalem Post reported. In the March…
President Barack Obama, seeking to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. lawmakers and the American public, insisted on Wednesday that the landmark agreement was the best way to avoid a nuclear arms race and more war in the Middle East. Obama made his case in a nationally televised news conference responding to critics…
The opposition leader in Israel said he is in agreement with the nation’s prime minister on the dangers of the final Iran nuclear deal. “I have told Prime Minister Netanyahu that despite our disagreements, as a responsible leader of the opposition I will do all I can for the sake of Israel’s security,” Isaac Herzog…
The University of California Board of Regents will wait until September to address adopting the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. The expectation was that the board was going to discuss the issue during its July 22-23 meeting in San Francisco and take a vote. No reason for the delay was given. The regents do…
An amateur archaeologist in Germany has found a historic collection of gold coins worth around 45,000 euros, probably buried during the Nazi era or shortly after World War Two, experts said on Wednesday. Armed with a metal detector, Florian Bautsch found 10 coins in a hollow under a tree near the northern town of Lueneburg…
