The rabbi also was fined 1 million shekels or $260,000 in Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday. In a plea deal finalized last month, Pinto, 39, pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, attempted bribery and obstruction of justice for attempting to bribe a senior police officer for information in another investigation about him. Pinto agreed…
Israel and Hamas share common interests, and the Palestinian Islamists must stay in power in the Gaza Strip to prevent the enclave descending into chaos, an Israeli general was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Major-General Sami Turgeman, who as commander of Israel’s forces outside Gaza had a leading role in last year’s war with Hamas,…
The Israeli officer who was caught on video beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier met with police officials at a dismissal hearing. The hearing was held Monday morning, according to Israeli news reports. The beating was among the catalysts for Ethiopian-Israeli protests against police brutality and racism that turned violent in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Ethiopian-Israeli activists…
A 30-year-old suburban Boston man has been indicted on theft and extortion charges in relation to the abrupt resignation last year of a leading Conservative rabbi over allegations of sex with a teenage boy. Nicholas Zemeitus, of Quincy, Massachusetts, is charged with eight counts of larceny, two counts of receiving stolen property and one count…
A state visit to Germany by Israel’s president marking 50 years of diplomatic relations has highlighted both deep ties and political differences. After discussing issues such as the threat of a nuclear Iran and the current state of talks with Palestinian leaders with German President Joachim Gauck, his German counterpart, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said…
The annual Jerusalem Day march will still go through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City after the Supreme Court rejected a petition to change its route. The court ordered police to arrest any participants who shout racist slogans or engage in violence or vandalism during Sunday’s march. Arab residents of the Old City must…
Some two dozen Oklahoma state lawmakers are calling on the University of Oklahoma to research if it owns any paintings that were stolen by the Nazis. Twenty-six members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives introduced a resolution Monday that asks O.U. and its Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art to determine whether any of its…
There were no suspects in last week’s failed attack at a civic center outside Dallas other than the two men who were fatally shot while trying to storm an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, police said on Monday. Roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix were killed by a Garland police officer…
Former foreign minister David Miliband said on Monday he would not put himself forward to run Britain’s opposition Labor Party and criticized his brother Ed, the outgoing leader, for allowing himself to be seen as taking the party too far back to the left. Ed Miliband, who beat his older and better known brother in…
A trawler left Sweden on its way to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip 5,000 nautical miles away. The Marianne of Gothenburg departed on Sunday evening and is the first ship in the Freedom Flotilla III to leave for Gaza, according to the website of the Ship to Gaza Sweden campaign. The boat,…
David Cohen, the former executive director of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was sentenced to one year in jail for his role in a $9 million embezzlement scheme against the Jewish nonprofit. The sentencing of Cohen, announced in a news release Monday by the state’s attorney general and comptroller, concludes the sentencing for…
אין קלאַס זענען די סטודענטן אָפֿט געווען אױף פֿאַרשידענע ניװאָען אָבער זי האָט זיך אָפּגעגעבן מיט יעדן באַזונדער.
