United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Palestinians in Gaza to provide information about two Israelis believed to be held there. Ban on Monday also called for their prompt return to their families, the Associated Press reported. Ethiopian-Israel Avera Mengistu is believed to have climbed over the security fence between Israel and Gaza last September….
President Barack Obama heralded a nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday as an opportunity worth seizing and warned Congress he would veto any legislation that prevented its successful implementation. Obama, speaking at the White House, said every pathway for Iran to get a nuclear weapon was cut off under the agreement. The deal was built…
Iran would get access to more than $100 billion in frozen assets when the Iran nuclear agreement is implemented, which depends on when Tehran has curbed its nuclear program and the U.N. nuclear watchdog has certified this, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the formal announcement…
It is hard to picture Iran’s nuclear talks with world powers without the beaming face of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who, in reaching a deal, has shown the power of what Iranians call his ‘smile diplomacy’. The 55-year old career diplomat led Iran’s negotiating team in concluding a deal with world powers in Vienna…
UJA-Federation of New York raised $207.8 million in its recently completed fiscal year, nearly a 10 percent increase over last year. The Jewish federation said it raised the money from nearly 53,000 donors in the fiscal year that ended June 30. Of the $207.8 million raised, $150.8 million came through its annual campaign, while $33.9…
Two Roman artifacts, each more than 2,000 years old, were left in the courtyard of an Israeli museum accompanied by an anonymous note whose author claimed to have stolen them two decades earlier. The two sling stones left at the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures in Beersheba last week will be forwarded to…
An Arizona yoga instructor pleaded not guilty on Monday to multiple charges that she performed a sex act on a 15-year-old boy and let other boys as young as 11 fondle her breasts at a bar mitzvah party, court officials said. Lindsey Radomski, 33, made the plea to 18 misdemeanor counts during a brief hearing…
A son-in-law of indicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded guilty on Monday to operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of nearly $6 million over seven years. Marcello Trebitsch, 37, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud, three months after authorities first accused him of using investment funds to…
Israeli police detained a Palestinian militant leader on Monday for questioning over his travel to Jerusalem, a police spokeswoman said, a day after he was freed from prison in a deal ending an almost two-month-long hunger strike. Khader Adnan of the Islamic Jihad faction was taken into custody near al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City…
Two black Jewish-Americans — a Florida woman and her son — reportedly were denied entry to Israel because authorities believed she was a member of the Black Hebrews community and planned to stay. Idit Malka and her 10-year-old son, Kahxin, were detained for 48 hours at Ben Gurion Airport and returned to the United States,…
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help the Kurds in their fight against Islamic State said on Monday that she had volunteered in an effort to “turn her life around” after being jailed in the United States for an international phone scam. Having spent eight months with Kurdish YGP guerrillas in Syria…
