A Palestinian mosque and an Israeli synagogue were damaged in separate arson attacks, police and local residents said on Wednesday, causing no casualties but stoking tensions that have flared over a contested Jerusalem shrine. Youths entered Mghayr village in the occupied West Bank and set a fire which consumed the ground floor of the mosque…
Alan Gross, the Jewish government contractor jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state may be closer to returning home, in part because he has threatened to end his life if he is not released, a U.S. senator said on Tuesday. The detention of Gross since December 2009 has increased tensions in already troubled U.S.-Cuban…
The New York City clinic that treated comedian Joan Rivers made several errors, including not noticing her deteriorating vital signs during surgery, according to a federal investigation. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its report on Monday. Rivers, 81, died on Sept. 4, a week after being rushed to Manhattan’s Mount Sinai…
(JTA) — Members of the American Studies Association gathered last year for their annual meeting and a vociferous debate on the wisdom of initiating an academic boycott of Israel. One year later, the debate is over and the boycott resolution has long since passed – but the aftereffects are still being felt. Attendees at this year’s…
Yehuda Glick, the Temple Mount activist shot in a failed assassination attempt, is communicating and breathing on his own. Glick until Tuesday had been on a respirator at Shaarey Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem since the Oct. 29 attack outside a city conference center. The speaker of Israel’s Knesset, Yuli Edelstein, wrote Tuesday afternoon in…
Prosecutors in an Illinois county have asked a judge to revoke the bail of a man charged with vandalizing a synagogue because he said he planned to “shoot Jews.” John White, 40, of Westmont, Ill., was charged last month with a hate crime for allegedly vandalizing Congregation Etz Chaim in Lombard, a Chicago suburb. White’s…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused his Islamist Hamas rivals of carrying out a series of bombings against officials loyal to him in Gaza last week, in a move sure to harm already floundering unity efforts. A series of small explosions targeted the homes and vehicles of officials from Abbas’s Fatah movement on Friday,…
Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia soared by more than a third in the past year. The annual Report on Anti-Semitic Incidents in Australia, presented Sunday at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s annual general meeting, logged 312 incidents between October 2013 and September 2014, about a 35 percent increase from 231 incidents the previous year. Much…
The superintendent of a Maryland school district has recommended removing Jewish holidays from the school calendar. Schools in Montgomery County would still close on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, according to Superintendent Joshua Starr’s recommendation. The issue behind the recommendation is that the schools are closed for Jewish holidays and not Muslim holidays, NBC Washington…
(Haaretz) — Non-Jews have come to assume prominent roles in Conservative and Reform synagogues around America, in some cases accounting for a relatively large share of congregation membership, according to a prominent Israeli-born scholar who has been studying the changing face of American synagogues in recent years. “Sometimes as many as half the people in a…
A San Diego doctor who volunteered at a clinic for poor and uninsured people pleaded not guilty on Monday to felony charges linked to allegations he took more than 1,300 sexually explicit photographs of female patients, and molested some of them. Jeffrey Abrams, 67, was arraigned on 24 felony charges linked to the misconduct allegations…
דער נײַער אַלבאָם „שמשׂ“ פֿאַרבינדט די ייִדישע מוזיק מיט אַנדערע דיאַספּאָרישע טראַדיציעס.
