The NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers routed Maccabi Tel Aviv in an international exhibition game that pitted Cavs’ new coach David Blatt against his former team. Maccabi Tel Aviv, the 2014 Euroleague and Israel Super Basketball League champions lost Sunday’s game 107-80. The exhibition game had been scheduled long before Blatt signed on as Cavs’ coach in…
An Ebola-stricken NBC photographer with Jewish roots has arrived in the U.S. for treatment. A private plane carrying Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman for who contracted Ebola in Liberia, landed in Omaha en route to the Nebraska Medical Center, NBC reported. The plane was met by an ambulance manned by worked in yellow protective suits,…
A Dutch municipality ordered the eviction of 270 Jews from a camping site that is overcrowded with followers of the fugitive rabbi Eliezer Berland. The order was issued Friday by the island municipality of Texel in the country’s north in connection with the arrival of 300 Orthodox Jews from the Breslov Hassidic sect ahead of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a Bible study session, attended by the parents of three Israeli teens kidnapped and killed this summer. Iris and Uri Yifrach, Rachel and Avi Fraenkel, and Ophir and Bat-Galim Shaar joined the Tanach Study Circle, a tradition started by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and which was renewed…
Popular novelist Nicholas Sparks is being sued for racial and religious discrimination by the former headmaster of a private school he founded. Saul Hillel Benjamin, a practicing Quaker who is Jewish by background, has filed a federal lawsuit against Sparks, charging the bestselling author with making racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks while Benjamin headed The…
A historically Jewish fraternity house at Emory University was targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti. The Alpha Epsilon Pi house was defaced with swastikas and other graffiti early Sunday morning in the hours after the end of Yom Kippur. Emory police officers have increased patrols in the area, University President Jim Wagner said in a statement. “On…
The U.S. condemnation of Israeli housing starts in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood is “against American values,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. In an interview Sunday morning on the CBS News show “Face the Nation,” Netanyahu said he was “baffled” by the criticism. “What we are being criticized for is that some Jewish residents of…
The Swedish Embassy in Israel appears to have walked back the new prime minister’s declaration that Sweden would recognize a state of Palestine. In a statement released Sunday evening, the embassy said Sweden will recognize a Palestinian state at the conclusion of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. “The conflict between Israel and Palestine can…
MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, will send three mobile emergency clinics to areas in western Africa to help prevent the spread of the Ebola virus. A staff of Israeli medical experts will be attached to each clinic, and they will train the local health care workers in the operation of the clinic and…
Israel Defense Forces troops fired on two suspects infiltrating into Israeli territory from Lebanon. The suspects escaped and returned to Lebanon, the IDF Spokesman said. Lebanese security sources told the Daily Star of Lebanon that Israeli soldiers fired on a Lebanese Army patrol in the Sheba Farms area near the border with Israel, wounding one…
Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking on Fusion, the Hispanic-millenial targeting network, reacted to the J Street campaign in which his caricature appears in a Beyonce pose, captioned “If You Like It, Then You Should Put a Border On It.” “You’ve never been compared to Beyonce, I’m sure,” interviewer Jorge Ramos says. “Wow,” Netanyahu says. “There are a…
