The Jewish community in Melbourne, Australia, is at a heightened risk of attack, a Jewish communal security agency said. The Melbourne Community Security Group and Jewish Community Council of Victoria issued a joint statement Wednesday saying that they were stepping up security and encouraging the entire community to be vigilant, the Australian Jewish News reported….
Israel’s religious services minister reportedly called Reform Jews “a disaster for the people of Israel.” David Azoulay of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party made the comments during a meeting to discuss the Women of the Wall group, Israel Hayom daily newspaper reported Wednesday. The meeting reportedly took place on Tuesday between Azoulay and Justice Minister…
David Blatt, the Israeli-American coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, lamented his team’s loss in the NBA Finals but said it doesn’t mean the overall season was bad. “Not every story has a happy ending,” Blatt said at a news conference Tuesday night after the Golden State Warriors won the championship with a victory in Game…
A creepy Upper West Side landlord has reportedly been charged for the second time with filming women without their permission in their apartments. Eli Kadoch, 48, was of filming Aksana Kuzmitskaya, 26, a grad student from Belarus. She had moved into his building in December of 2013 and lived there rent-free on the condition that…
Jordanian authorities have arrested a suspected member of a Palestinian guerrilla unit behind an attack on a Jewish restaurant in France in 1982 that killed six people, an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. A French magistrate issued international arrest warrants for three men living in Oslo, Ramallah and Jordan in March,…
Former envoy Michael Oren’s accusation that President Barack Obama abandoned Israel is “an imaginary account” of Israel-U.S. relations, the U.S. ambassador to Israel said. Read: Michael Oren’s Wrongheaded Blame Game Dan Shapiro was responding to an Op-Ed written by Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, that appeared Tuesday in The Wall Street…
The Palestinian unity government between Hamas and Fatah has resigned and the Palestinian Authority’s prime minister has been asked to form a new government. Resignation letters were given to P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Wednesday, the French news agency AFP reported. The possible collapse of the 14-month-old-government was signaled on Tuesday, despite P.A….
It’s not quite a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but shared concern over Islamic State-inspired militant groups in Gaza could help redraw complex relationships between Hamas and a hostile Egypt and Israel. Talk is rampant in the territory of 1.8 million of a prospective pullback from confrontation with Israel –…
The U.S. House of Representatives introduced a resolution condemning academic boycotts against Israeli scholars and institutions on American campuses. The resolution, introduced Tuesday by Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), condemns any restrictions on interaction between American and Israeli academic institutions as part of the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement. “Efforts to uniquely isolate Israeli institutions and…
A U.S. Senate subcommittee voted to more than double funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program to $25 million for the coming year. The increase approved Tuesday by the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2016, up from the current $13 million, was actively supported by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of…
In a rare rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy, a senior Chabad rabbi from Moscow expressed concerns over a bill aiming to limit foreign involvement. Boruch Gorin, aide to Chief Russian Rabbi Berel Lazar and chairman of Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, on Tuesday expressed his criticism of a government-backed bill on foreign-funded…
