Iran and six world powers ramped up negotiations on Tuesday after accepting they would miss a June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal, with both sides cautioning that major obstacles to a lasting agreement remained. Diplomats said the Vienna talks would run on for as long as necessary to reach a deal intended to promise…
An $11 million Jewish cultural institution will be built in Paris, the city’s mayor and the oldest existing Jewish organization in France announced. The European Center for Judaism will be built in the 17th arrondissement, or district, in northern Paris and is set to open in 2017, according to the announcement on Sunday by Mayor…
Anti-Semitic attitudes fell in two countries where Jews were attacked over the last year while rising significantly in Italy, Romania and the Netherlands, a new Anti-Defamation League poll found. The survey of 10,000 respondents in 19 countries in March and early April was a follow-up to the ADL’s first-ever global anti-Semitism poll released in May…
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “smuggled” to medical appointments in disguised vans shortly before and after elections. Netanyahu, 65, in both cases had routine prostate examinations that found “nothing uncharacteristic for a man of his age.” In the first instance, shortly before the March 17 elections, he was transported to Mayanei Hayeshua…
A gunman opened fire at a group of Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Israeli military said, in a suspected Palestinian drive-by attack. A spokesman for Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom said medics were treating four people in their twenties, one of them badly wounded. A military…
Alan Levine will take over as chair of the Board of Trustees of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). Levine, a partner in the international firm of Cooley LLP, joined the JTS Board in 1998 and rose to vice chair in 2009. He replaces Abby Joseph Cohen, who served as chair for six years. “I am…
A financial adviser in Australia unleashed a series of curse-laden anti-Semitic tweets at the country’s Jewish assistant treasurer. James Howarth, the head of Retirement Wealth Advisers based in Brisbane, ripped Josh Frydenberg on Sunday for his proposed law that would cut upfront commissions for financial advisers, news.com.au reported. Howarth was immediately reprimanded for his remarks,…
The Pine Bush Central School District in upstate New York has agreed to pay nearly $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging widespread anti-Semitic harassment. The 2012 lawsuit by five former and current students was due to go to trial next month. In the settlement, filed in court papers on Monday, according to The New…
Rabbi Avi Weiss is quitting the Rabbinical Council of America to protest its failure to admit as members rabbis whose sole ordination is from the rabbinical school he founded. The RCA, the main association of modern Orthodox rabbis in America, has yet to grant membership to rabbis who have been ordained only from Yeshivat Chovevei…
A car belonging to a Chabad rabbi in Los Angeles was set on fire, burning prayer books and tefillin inside. Security cameras at the Chabad of Mt. Oympus, located in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood, captured footage of two people vandalizing the car at about 2 a.m. June 24, the Jewish Journal reported. Nothing was stolen…
British prosecutors said on Monday an aging Jewish member of the House of Lords would now face criminal action over accusations of serious historical child sex crimes after they overturned an earlier decision following anger from alleged victims. Lord Greville Janner, 86, a former Labour member of parliament and ex-president of the Board of Deputies…
