A Jerusalem family has found a 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath under their house while renovating the living room floor, Israel’s Antiquities Authority said on Wednesday. Pottery vessels inside the rock-hewn bath helped archaeologists date the discovery to the 1st century. The house is in the village of Ein Karem, the traditional birthplace of John the…
The name that keeps coming up when Orthodox Jewish groups consider the consequences of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision extending same-sex marriage rights to all states has little to do with Jews or gays. Bob Jones University, the private Protestant college in South Carolina, lost its tax-exempt status in 1983 when the Supreme Court…
The Obama administration will ignore a provision in a new law targeting Israel boycotters that includes entities that boycott businesses in the West Bank settlements. “By conflating Israel and ‘Israeli-controlled territories,’ a provision of the Trade Promotion Authority legislation runs counter to longstanding U.S. policy towards the occupied territories, including with regard to settlement activity,”…
The young Israeli man critically injured in a drive-by shooting by Palestinians in the West Bank has died. Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld died Tuesday afternoon, less than a day after the car he was riding in with three other men came under attack on a major West Bank road near the Shvut Rachel and Shiloh settlements….
A joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem was attacked for the second time in eight months. Swastikas and anti-Arab graffiti were spray-painted on the walls of the Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem School overnight Tuesday, coinciding with the last day of school. Some of the graffiti read “Arabs to slaughter” and “Arab blood is cheap.”…
Police ordered a neo-Nazi demonstration planned for a London suburb with a large Jewish population to be moved. The decision to relocate Saturday’s demonstration from the Golders Green neighborhood of the Barnet borough to central London followed weeks of intense conversations with Barnet and British officials and law enforcement, according to Britain’s security watchdog, Community…
Iran and six world powers gave themselves an extra week to reach a final nuclear accord after it became clear they would miss a deadline on Tuesday, with U.S. and Iranian officials sounding upbeat even though obstacles remain. With all sides accepting that Tuesday’s original deadline would come and go without an agreement, Iran and…
Orange announced the framework agreement on Tuesday less than a month after its CEO, Stephan Richard, said at a news conference in Cairo that his company would abandon its Israeli affiliate Partner “tomorrow morning” if not for contractual penalties, raising questions about a company boycott of Israel. Under the new agreement, Orange will pay Partner…
Police in Munich are investigating a graffiti attack on an outdoor exhibit about local Jewish history. The exhibit is located in front of the Jewish museum and community center on Jakobsplatz, called the new Jewish center, in central Munich. The graffiti, which was discovered Monday, includes Hitler mustaches burned on photographs of rabbis and politicians….
The office, which opened last week in Dnepropetrovsk, aims to facilitate the process for those seeking to immigrate to Israel under its Law of Return for Jews and their kin. It is a joint initiative of the Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk, the Israeli organizations Tzohar and Shorashim, and the Triguboff Institute of Australia. “It will…
An Israeli man was in critical condition following a Palestinian drive-by shooting in the West Bank. Three others also were moderately wounded in the attack, which occurred late Monday night near the Shvut Rachel settlement located north of Ramallah. The victims, all in their 20s, were returning to their homes in the Kochav Hashahar settlement…
