A prominent Greek Jewish communal organization condemned a right-wing politician for saying that Jews don’t pay taxes. Panos Kammenos, leader of the small Independent Greeks Party, made the comment Monday during an interview on the Antenna television channel. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece issued a statement in response, saying it “categorically refutes”…
Israeli police arrested the head of Lehava, a group that opposes Arab-Israeli coexistence and assimilation. The arrest comes after three members of the group were charged Monday with vandalizing and setting fire to an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem last month. Lehava’s chairman, Benji Gopstein, was arrested in his hometown of Kiryat Arba, a West Bank…
A prominent Greek Jewish communal organization condemned a right-wing politician after he claimed that Jews don’t pay taxes. Panos Kammenos, leader of the small right-wing Independent Greeks Party, made the comment Monday during an interview on the Antenna television channel. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece issued a statement in response saying it…
A poll shows the majority of Israelis believe there is a crisis in U.S. Israel relations and that the Netanyahu government has harmed the relationship. A poll commissioned by J Street, the liberal U.S. Jewish Middle East policy group, and released Monday, found that 61.7 percent of respondents said “yes” when asked if there was…
Swastikas were found spray-painted on a Tufts University building for the third time in nearly two years. The latest swastikas were found Saturday morning on the back wall of the Lewis Hall dormitory on the Somerville, Mass., campus, Boston.com reported. In June, swastikas were found on the university’s Granoff Family Hillel Center. In April 2013,…
Lawyers for filmmaker Roman Polanski are seeking to have a case involving a 1977 charge of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl dismissed, U.S. newspapers reported on Tuesday. Polanski’s lawyers are seeking a hearing to decide whether misconduct and a “false” extradition request sent by the U.S. Justice Department to the Polish government on Oct….
Despite initial guidelines banning the mention of Israel, speakers at a Holocaust commemoration ceremony in Ireland in January will refer to the Jewish state. The Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, responding to complaints after a website published a letter indicating that the event’s longtime master of ceremonies should “not refer to the Jewish state or the…
The Claims Conference will increase its allocations to social service organizations serving Jewish Holocaust survivors by 21 percent over last year. The allocations for 2015 will total $365 million, a raise of $80 million over 2014, the president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Julius Berman, announced in a statement. Additional allocations…
The family of Noah Pozner and 8 other families of people killed in an attack on a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in 2012 filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Monday against the company that manufactured the gun used in the attack, the Hartford Courant reported. While the AR-15 assault weapon used in the attack on Sandy…
Photographer Phil Stern, known for his candid shots of Hollywood stars and jazz musicians, has died. Stern died Saturday in Los Angeles at the age of 95 after an extended hospital stay. Stern worked as a combat photographer for the Army newspaper “Stars and Stripes” during World War II, where he served as a U.S….
Three Israelis from a far-right group were charged on Monday with setting fire to a classroom in an Arab-Jewish school that has been a symbol of co-existence in Jerusalem. Israel’s Shin Bet security service said brothers Nahman and Shlomo Twito, aged 18 and 20, and Yitzhak Gabai, 22, belong to Lehava, a group that objects…
