A portrait by Gustav Klimt could be put up for sale, potentially fetching over $30 million, to resolve a dispute between a Viennese art foundation and the granddaughter of the woman in the painting, a lawyer for the granddaughter said on Thursday. Klimt, an Austrian symbolist, painted the portrait of Gertrud Loew in 1902 and…
The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities condemned and called for an investigation into an assault, reportedly by Jews, of two teenagers. The assault against the two, both in their late teens and reportedly of Arab background, took place on Sunday in Saint Mande, Le Parisien reported. According to the report, approximately 30 young…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) walked out of a conference on Middle East Christians after he was booed for saying Christians “have no greater ally than Israel.” Prior to Cruz’s speech on Wednesday, the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news website, reported that the “In Defense of Christians” conference was organized by Christian Lebanese with ties…
Human Rights Watch accused Israel of committing war crimes by attacking three U.N.-run schools in the Gaza Strip in fighting in July and August, killing Palestinian civilians who had sheltered there. The New York-based group issued a report on Thursday that it described as the first in-depth documentation of the incidents, which took place during…
Seventy-five Reform congregations throughout the United States are holding bone marrow registration drives on Yom Kippur. For the second year in a row, the Reform Movement has partnered with the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation in an effort to register as many potential donors as possible. A simple cheek swab will be taken from…
Germany is ready to allocate funds to tailor education about anti-Semitism for its Muslim citizens, its Jewish outreach official said. Felix Klein, Germany’s special representative for relations with Jewish organizations, is in Washington this week to meet with Jewish groups and with Obama administration officials because of American concerns about a spike in anti-Semitism in…
An Israeli policeman was charged on Wednesday with assault causing bodily harm against a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent during a protest over the revenge killing of the teenager’s cousin days before the eight week war with Gaza. The indictment submitted to a Jerusalem court charged the policeman with grabbing the youth and throwing him…
Reuven Rivlin, who drew criticism before becoming Israel’s president for his broadsides against non-Orthodox Jewish streams, told a group of Conservative Jews that Jews are “one big family.” “We cannot agree on everything, but we are brothers and we are one big family,” The Jerusalem Post quoted Rivlin as telling the delegation Wednesday from the…
The U.S. Air Force is swearing in its first bearded chaplain, a rabbi. Rabbi Elie Estrin, the director of a Chabad House on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, will be sworn in Wednesday at McCord Air Force Base in the state, Chabad.org, a news website of the movement, reported. The military only this…
The Council of American Jewish Museums, which represents 80 institutions, has named Melissa Martens Yaverbaum as its executive director. Yaverbaum, who has worked in the museum field for 24 years, currently serves as the director of collections and exhibitions at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. “This…
Two Jewish candidates were defeated in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts governor. Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, on Tuesday defeated Steve Grossman, the state treasurer and Don Berwick, a former administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Coakley, who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2010, garnered 42 percent of…
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