Five teenagers were arrested for allegedly hurling anti-Semitic abuse and physically threatening Jewish school students on a bus in Sydney. Police confirmed that the five minors were arrested Thursday morning but were too drunk to be interviewed. They were released into their parents’ custody and are expected to be interrogated by police later Thursday, a…
Mediators worked against the clock on Thursday to extend a Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinians as the three-day ceasefire went into its final 24 hours. Israel has said it is ready to agree to an extension as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israelis and Palestinians on an enduring end to a war that…
The University of Illinois rescinded a job offer to an incoming professor who harshly criticized Israel on Twitter. Steven Salaita, who was offered a job at the Champaign-Urbana campus in the American Indian studies program, will not be hired, according to a report by the website Inside Higher Education. The move reportedly was made in…
A ceramic money box holding a rare hoard of coins from the Great Revolt against the Romans was discovered outside Jerusalem. The 114 bronze coins date back to the fourth year of the Great Revolt against the Romans, which led to the destruction of the Second Temple, 2,000 years ago this week. The discovery was…
A senior Cairo-based Hamas official said late on Wednesday there was no agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians over the extension of a 72-hour Gaza ceasefire that took effect on Tuesday. Israel said hours ago it was ready to extend the three-day deal beyond a Friday deadline and had sent a delegation back to Cairo…
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza has come at almost too high a price as the death and destruction from nearly a month of fighting has “shocked and shamed” the world, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday. A Gaza truce was holding for a second day on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators…
(Reuters) — With its spacious villas and palm-lined streets, the town of Khuzaa in southern Gaza gave Palestinians a rare place to spend their free time before it was bombed and shelled to rubble last month. Largely free of the local tensions and feuds found in other neighborhoods, Khuzaa’s green spaces were one of just…
All 11-year-old Yasmin Al-Bakri remembers is that her mother was baking bread. Then she woke up in a hospital bed in Gaza to discover that both legs and her right arm were in bandages and she was suffering severe burns and fractures after her house was hit by an Israeli air strike. She also learned…
A controversial columnist for a major Australian newspaper resigned after he was exposed sending “anti-Semitic” emails and tweets to critics. Mike Carlton, a longstanding columnist for Saturday’s edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, resigned “on the spot” Tuesday when management suspended him after he called one reader a “Jewish bigot” and told others to “f—k…
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro described Israel’s offensive in Gaza as a “new, repugnant form of fascism.” Castro made his comments in a column published Tuesday in the Granma newspaper, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, titled “Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza. ” “Why does the government of this country…
A London theater has cancelled plans to host a Jewish film festival this year, citing objections to the festival’s Israeli government funding. Managers at the Tricycle Theatre, which the Independent newspaper described as the UK Jewish Film Festival’s “main venue,” told the Independent that because the festival was partly funded by the Israeli Embassy, doing…
די „שלום־עליכם לעקציע“ וועט מען קענען הערן אויפֿן אָרט אָדער דורך דער אינטערנעץ.
