A student group at the City University of New York postponed a vote on a boycott resolution of Israel because it would have taken place on the Jewish Sabbath. About 100 people attended the meeting of the Doctoral Students’ Council on Friday evening and debated the “Resolution for the Endorsement of Boycott of Israeli Academic…
A letter in which dozens of Israeli intelligence corps reservists vowed to stop collecting information on Palestinians was condemned by the Israel Defense Forces. IDF Spokesperson’s Unit head Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz in a statement issued Sunday called the letter an “exploitation of military service in order to express a political position. We see the…
A Palestinian man was caught trying to infiltrate Israel from Gaza. The man was caught by an Israel Defense Forces patrol after being seen from above, according to Israeli media reports. He attempted to enter Israel near Kibbutz Kissufim, which is near central Gaza. He was carrying a knife. The man was detained and taken…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called ISIS and Hamas “branches of the same poisonous tree” after the former group released a video showing the beheading of a British aid worker. The terror group on Saturday released a video showing the apparent murder of David Haines, who was kidnapped in Syria in March of last year…
More than 25 Spanish cities launched a cultural program centered around their Jewish heritage in celebration of the 15th European Day of Jewish Culture. Spain was one of about 30 countries marking the Jewish culture day on Sunday, which this year focused on women in Judaism. The activities offered by Spain’s Red de Juderias, a…
Four months after a shooting that killed four people, the Brussels Jewish Museum opened its doors to the public again on Sunday in a solemn ceremony attended by Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. The museum in central Brussels had been closed since the May 24 attack by a gunman who opened fire in the…
Police in Marseille arrested a man who brandished a weapon in front of a Jewish school and threatened to commit murder. The man, who was not named, approached the Gan Ami school while carrying the weapon, shouting: “I will kill all of you,” an unnamed police source told the Le Figaro daily. The man, 48,…
The President of Hillel International called on Ohio University to apologize to four pro-Israel students who were arrested during a protest. “I cannot understand how the university administration could have possibly allowed the university police to arrest these students,” Eric Fingerhut said in his letter Friday to Roderick David, the university’s president. “These students are…
Private First Class Daniel Gavrin, declared missing in 1944, was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in a Jewish ceremony. Gavrin was given full military honors on Friday, and a flag was handed to his nephew, David Rogers. Gavrin was part of an invasion force in Saipan, then occupied by Japan, in June 1944….
A man sentenced to death for a triple murder in a brutal home invasion in Connecticut is suing to demand a Kosher diet as a newly declared Orthodox Jew, saying the prison’s resistance has forced him into “starvation.” Steven Hayes, 51, invoked the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment in a handwritten lawsuit…
A student group at the City University of New York is set to discuss and vote on a proposed resolution calling for a boycott of Israel. The university’s Doctoral Students’ Council advertised the proposed resolution earlier this month ahead of a meeting scheduled for the evening of Sept. 12. “The DSC hereby endorses the boycott…
בײַ ייִדן איז פֿאַראַן אַן אַלטע טראַדיציע צו שרײַבן רײַסישע סגולות מיט ייִדישע אותיות.
