Ninety-one percent of Americans said they would vote for a presidential candidate who is Jewish, according to a new poll. The Gallup poll of recent voting preferences released Monday showed that 73 percent of Americans would support an evangelical Christian for president, while 60 percent would back a Muslim and 58 percent an atheist. The…
UN investigators said on Monday that Israel and Palestinian militant groups committed grave abuses of international humanitarian law during the 2014 Gaza conflict that may amount to war crimes. They called on all sides to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has opened a separate preliminary investigation. The Palestinian Authority is expected to…
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday he saw a good chance of reaching a final agreement with six world powers on Iran’s nuclear program by a June 30 deadline or a few days later, provided there was political will. Iran and the six powers – Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and the…
A disputed Holocaust memorial in Greece was desecrated two weeks after its dedication. The black marble monument, which commemorates the 1,484 Jews from the northern port city of Kavala who were murdered by the Nazis, was discovered Monday to be covered in blue paint, according to The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece. “It…
An Israeli movie by a haredi Orthodox filmmaker was screened for a women-only audience in London after two scheduled all-female screenings were canceled. A private, invitation-only screening of “Gift of Fire” by Rechy Elias was held Friday afternoon at the northwest London Jewish community center JW3. Orthodox and non-Orthodox women were in attendance, the London-based…
Who would want to live in a town that’s called, “Camp Kill Jews”? Well, the mayor of the Spanish town of Castrillo Matajudios asked himself the same question, according to the . After a referendum and regional government, Castrillo Matajudios is no more. Instead, the town’s new name, Castrillo Mota de Judios, translates to “Jews’…
Representatives of J Street U and Hillel met and failed to immediately agree on how best to collaborate on the national level. The meeting earlier this month, details of which emerged late last week, was called after Hillel director Eric Fingerhut pulled out of a commitment to speak at J Street’s annual conference in March….
Pope Francis criticized the world powers for failing to stop the Nazis from deporting Jews and other minority groups to death camps in Europe during World War II. “The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to the concentration camps, like Auschwitz, to kill the Jews, and also the Christians,…
A separatist leader from Ukraine made anti-Semitic statements at a public address, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress said. Igor Plotnitsky, head of the breakaway, Russian-backed region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, during a lecture in Russia last week linked Ukrainian Jews to the revolution that last year swept from power the country’s previous government amid allegations…
An Israel Defense Forces ambulance carrying wounded Syrians to local hospitals was attacked by Druze residents of Israel. The Israeli Druze asked to check whether the wounded being carried by the ambulance on Monday were rebel members, who have been locked in a civil war with Syrian government forces for more than 4 years, according…
A trawler from Italy was the first of three vessels to leave port in a bid to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Marianne of Gothenburg, which departed on Friday for Greece, is part of Freedom Flotilla III, according to Ship to Gaza Sweden. The boat, which was purchased jointly by the…
