An Israeli woman who has lived in the United States for the last 15 years was barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight in New York because of her Israeli citizenship. Iris Eliazarov, 26, who came to the United States when she was 11 and has a Green Card, was barred from the Nov. 1…
New details have reportedly emerged in the case of an Ohio rabbi accused of sexually abusing a Jewish Baltimore girl. Although his seminary rabbi called Rabbi Frederick Karp a “very fine young man,” the Baltimore Jewish Times reports he is accused of molesting a girl who is now 12 for five years — and her…
A Dutch ship that sparked controversy because it was named after a Nazi will have its name changed, its owner said. The change was announced on Friday by Allseas, the shipping giant that built and named the Pieter Schelte for a prominent Nazi industrialist and Waffen-SS officer. “As a result of the widespread reactions which…
The first utility-scale solar power field in East Africa, built on land belonging to a Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda, was launched. The nearly $24 million project was financed and constructed by Gigawatt Global. Yosef Abramowitz, Gigawatt president, also is CEO of Energiya Global Capital, Gigawatt’s Israeli affiliate, which provided seed money and strategic assistance…
The British broadcaster Sky News apologized for showing images of the Gaza conflict during an interview about the Holocaust with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. The apology over the Jan. 27 broadcast came in a letter sent by Peter Lowe, Sky News’ managing editor, to a viewer who sent Sky News a letter of complaint…
Final farewells for two of the 6 victims of this week’s fiery New York commuter train accident will be held two hours apart this morning, including the mother of three who was behind the wheel of the SUV the train slammed into on Tuesday night. Friends and loved ones of Ellen Brody, 49, and Eric…
Moroccan Jews touted their country’s efforts to preserve Jewish cemeteries at the opening of an exhibition on Morocco in Paris. The preservation efforts, launched in 2010, have restored at least 167 Jewish burial sites, and were celebrated during the Feb. 1 opening of the “Contemporary Morocco” exhibition at the French capital’s Arab World Institute, the…
A senior Israeli official suggested on Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been misled into thinking an invitation to address the U.S. Congress on Iran next month was fully supported by the Democrats. Netanyahu was invited by the Republican speaker of the house, John Boehner, to address Congress on March 3, an invitation Boehner…
Israeli President Reuben Rivlin called for the building of a new city to accommodate Israel’s growing Arab minority. Rivlin met Thursday at his residence with 50 Arab local council heads and mayors and discussed integration and development, according to his office. Rivlin called for the creation of a new Arab city, and for schools to…
(JTA) — Two prominent black Democrats say they will not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to the Republican Congress amid a growing storm of controversy over the perceived partisan nature of the arrangement. U.S. Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) on Thursday slammed Rep….
(Reuters) — The New York commuter train that plowed into a car stopped on a crossing this week was traveling just below the speed limit and no problem was found with the signals or traffic barriers at the site of the deadly crash, a federal investigator said on Thursday. But preliminary data released after the…
