New York City’s 2016 budget includes $1.5 million to assist Holocaust survivors living in poverty. The $78.5 billion budget finalized Monday night includes more than $25 million for senior services, JP Updates reported. The Survivor Initiative, a 3-year-old group that, according to its website, “seeks to raise awareness and funds to assure survivors live their…
An appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of Israel-related groups may proceed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on June 19 ruled against the government’s argument that Z Street’s 2010 lawsuit should be dismissed under laws banning lawsuits that seek to…
(JTA) — From the man who married her grandmother to the man who married her daughter, from working a room full of bar mitzvah guests on behalf of her husband’s political career to headlining major pro-Israel events during her own, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey has never wandered far from Jews. Clinton’s Jewish encounters have been…
Josh Mandel, the Jewish Ohio treasurer who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012, will not return a campaign donation from a white supremacist. An array of Republican candidates who have received donations from Earl Holt, the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens, are returning his donations in the wake of reports that the…
An array of Jewish groups representing every major religious stream has declared this coming Shabbat one of solidarity with the African American community in the wake of the Charleston, S.C. mass killing. A release Tuesday including among its signatories representative groups of the Conservative, Reform, Orthodox and Reconstructionist streams “to speak out in synagogues this…
The Palestinian Authority will hand over documentation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time on Thursday outlining alleged Israeli crimes in the occupied West Bank and the 2014 Gaza war, its mission to the Netherlands said. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki will give two files to the court’s prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, the…
Militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket at Israel on Tuesday which landed in open ground near a community close to the Palestinian enclave and Israel hit back at the launching site, the Israeli army said. There were no injuries or damage after the rocket fell near the community of Yad Mordechai, Israeli police…
(JTA) — Like many European Jews, Stephen Lever has mostly stopped wearing his yarmulke on the street in recent years. A Londoner, Lever said he fears joining the hundreds of Jews accosted annually in his native United Kingdom, often by Muslim or Arab extremists seeking to exact retribution for Israel’s actions. More than 1,000 anti-Semitic…
(JTA) — This time, Israel and its supporters came prepared. Anticipating what they believed would be an unfair U.N. report on last summer’s Gaza War, the Israeli government and friendly groups in the United States were ready with at least three reports they say better reflects the reality of the five-week battle between Israel and Hamas….
The Jewish National Fund has created a $100 million center to advocate for and educate about Israel, saying it “is needed now more than ever.” The JNF Boruchin Israel Education Advocacy Center announced earlier this month aims to strengthen all Americans’ connections to the land and people of Israel, now and in the future, JNF…
The two boys, both aged 17, spent Monday night in a police cell after being caught with items including a fragment of a razor, a piece of spoon, buttons and two pieces of glass, believed to have once belonged to inmates at the Nazi German camp. A police spokesman had said earlier on Tuesday that…
