World powers intensified nuclear talks with Iran on Sunday, two days before a deadline for reaching a framework deal, but Israel expressed cautious hope the negotiations would collapse. The foreign ministers of the United States, France and Germany canceled their travel plans for the next few days so they can push for the accord that…
Iran and major powers are close to agreeing a two- or three-page accord with specific numbers as the basis of a resolution of a 12-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, officials have told Reuters. As the French and German foreign ministers arrived in Switzerland on Saturday to join talks between U.S. Secretary of State John…
The Anti-Defamation League has called Lena Dunham’s recent controversial piece in the New Yorker “tasteless” and “offensive.” “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz,” a piece by the 28-year-old actress and writer of the popular HBO show “Girls,” is a list of 35 statements that begins by asking the reader “Do the following statements refer to…
A 32-year-old woman was arrested for alleged sex crimes at a bar mitzvah in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lindsey Ann Radomski reportedly exposed her breasts to several guests at a bar mitzvah party before engaging in oral sex with a 15-year-old boy, Azcentral.com reported. Radomski, who was charged with sexual abuse and sexual conduct with a minor,…
(Reuters) — The younger woman behind the downfall of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling painted conflicting portraits of him in court on Friday, calling him a kind, generous mentor and father figure to her but a mean-spirited “con artist” and bigot toward others. V. Stiviano, 32, also testified that the 80-year-old billionaire real estate…
(JTA) — Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) endorsed Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to succeed him as minority leader. Reid, who announced Friday he would not seek reelection to the Senate, made the endorsement in an interview Friday with the Washington Post. “I think Schumer should be able to succeed me,” Reid told the Post. Schumer, the…
For the first time, the daughters of train crash mom Ellen Brody, who was killed when her SUV was struck in February’s gruesome Metro-North tragedy, are speaking out. In a preview of their interview with Matt Lauer, they describe the night their dad came home, hours after the collision that also killed five men in…
Israel said on Friday it would release millions of dollars of tax income to the Palestinian Authority, three months after freezing the payments in protest at unilateral Palestinian moves towards statehood. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the funds would be sent for humanitarian reasons and “Israel’s interests,” without saying whether the transfer would be…
A resident of the Golan Heights was indicted for spying on Israel for Syria. Suleiman Sidqi from the predominantly Druze town of Majdl Shams is accused of spying for the Syrian government, aiding an enemy entity, having contact with a foreign agent and supporting a terrorist organization, Army Radio on Friday reported based on the…
A Missouri white supremacist is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday afternoon on charges that he fatally shot three people outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb last April. Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., 74, is expected to enter a plea to three charges of capital murder and three charges of attempted murder in…
A Jewish physician from Ukraine was severely beaten in what he said was an assault with anti-Semitic overtones. Oleksanr Dukhovskoi, a chief pediatric neurosurgeon in the east Ukrainian city of Kahrkiv, told the television station 9 TV that he believed the assault Sunday was ordered by competitors. He did not name a suspect. “I was…
