Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, enmeshed in a cabinet crisis, said on Monday he would call an early national election unless rebellious ministers stopped attacking government policies. The most potent of the rebels, centrist Finance Minister Yair Lapid, pushed back against Netanyahu’s ultimatum after the two held a late-night meeting. The conservative premier was “leading…
One of the world’s top Nazi hunters has declared that Alois Brunner, a fugitive long sought for his leading role in the Holocaust, is likely dead. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office, told the Sunday Express magazine in an article published Sunday that the Wiesenthal Center had received a tip in…
Gillian Rosenberg, the Canadian-Israeli Jewish woman rumored to have been captured by Islamic State jihadists, posted a message on Facebook that she was safe. “Guys, I’m totally safe and secure,” Rosenberg, 31, wrote on Monday evening. “I don’t have Internet access or any communication devices with me for my safety and security. I can’t reply…
The CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities called on French Jews to refrain from protests against the parliament’s vote on recognition of Palestinian statehood. The nonbinding vote, which is scheduled for Tuesday at the National Assembly, prompted some 250 protesters, most of them Jewish, to demonstrate on Friday near parliament with posters reading “Hamas+Fatah=Terrorist state,”…
Rabbi Barry Freundel has officially been fired from his post at Kesher Israel over sensational charges he used a hidden camera to peep on women in the Washington D.C. synagogue’s mikveh. Freundel was arrested in mid-October and had been suspended from the Congregation without pay ever since. Due to the decision, Freundel and his family…
(JTA) — Eilat — located on Israel’s southern tip, hundreds of miles and a metaphorical world away from the busy streets of Tel Aviv and the tense political climate of Jerusalem — is known as a destination with swanky hotels, swimming, snorkeling and suntanning. But residents of the city say that behind the promenade, a…
Uruguay elected a president who has twice traveled to Israel and who has an open dialogue with the country’s Jewish community. The ruling leftist coalition candidate, Tabare Vazquez, was confirmed as president Monday with 53.6 percent of the vote in the second round of national elections, beating rightist Luis Lacallae Pou who garnered 41.1 percent…
A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli in the occupied West Bank on Monday and was then shot and wounded by security forces, the military and police said. Violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories has risen in the past months. Attacks carried out by Palestinians have killed 11 Israelis. Twelve Palestinians have been killed, including…
A federal judge in Connecticut rejected a death row inmate’s motions for a hearing and a temporary injunction in a lawsuit against the state for not providing him with kosher prison food. Steven Hayes, who was convicted in the 2007 murder of a woman and her two daughters, sued the state’s Department of Corrections in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will decide in the next few days whether he can heal his fractured coalition government or call an early election, one of his advisers said on Monday. The government is split on a range of issues, including the 2015 budget, high living costs, policy towards the Palestinians and a Jewish…
Israel’s Cabinet has let stand an amendment which would subject to two years in jail a rabbi who performs a private wedding ceremony, as well as the couple who got married. The Cabinet debated the amendment to legislation passed last year which allows couples to go outside their own communities to find a rabbi certified…
