Germany is committed to help Israel preserve an architectural legacy that recalls Jewish design pioneers who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s. Germany will invest $3.2 million over the coming nine years to help save Bauhaus-style buildings in the historic “White City” district of Tel Aviv, Barbara Hendricks, German minister for the Environment, Nature…
Nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers are expected to end Sunday with a provisional agreement. Unnamed diplomats told the Associated Press on Sunday that final details were being worked out and that an official announcement of the deal would come on Monday. The seven countries involved in the talks will then have to…
Israel on Sunday released an Islamic Jihad leader, Khader Adnan, from jail following a deal last month in which he agreed to end a 56-day hunger strike, Islamic Jihad sources in the West Bank said. Adnan’s strike had galvanized Palestinians behind a “battle of empty stomachs” against Israeli detentions without trial and both sides had…
Israel Police made several arrests in connection with last month’s arson attack on a historic church in northern Israel. The arrests took place Sunday morning, and the investigation is continuing, police spokesman MIcky Rosenfeld announced. A fire believed to have been an arson attack on June 18 struck the Church of the Multiplication of the…
The 1941 pogrom in Jedwabne was commemorated by representatives of the Jewish community and local residents, at the site of the atrocity in Poland. “I’m lucky to meet in Poland very good people, the righteous and those who do a lot for Jewish history and culture,” Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari said at Friday’s…
Three American-Israeli children can spend their summer at camp rather than juvenile detention, where they were sent for refusing to see their father. A family court judge in Michigan lifted her contempt of court order against the Detroit-area kids on Friday, the Detroit Free Press reported. Liam Tsimhoni, 14, and his siblings, Rowie, 10, and…
(JTA) — Israeli Religious Services Minister David Azoulay — from the haredi Shas Party — drew a wave of backlash earlier this week when he said that Reform Jews aren’t Jews. Among those who spoke out against the minister was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “A Reform Jew, from the moment he stops following Jewish law,…
A Michigan judge reportedly ordered three Jewish children moved to summer camp from a juvenile detention center where they were sent for refusing to talk to their father. Oakland County Family Court Judge Lisa Gorcyca agreed with the recommendation of a court-appointed guardian that the children be taken to a Jewish summer camp for at…
(JTA) — When the board of directors of the Claims Conference — which handles German compensation for Nazi atrocities against Jews — gathers next week in New York for its annual meeting, controversy again may lead the agenda. This time the cause is an angry letter sent to the board on June 29 by Shmuel…
(JTA) — Jarryd Hayne is an Australian rugby star trying to make an unusual transition to the NFL as a potential member of the San Francisco 49ers. He also seems to be trying to stir up a millennia-old anti-Semitic debate. “Jesus wanted to help people but was killed by his own people,” Hayne tweeted on…
The Israel Teachers Union denied reports that it signed a document calling for a boycott of West Bank settlements. The denial, published Friday on the union’s website, was in reaction to a report by Channel 10 Thursday that union delegates signed the document in order to prevent the adoption of another text with harsher language…
