A charitable foundation to be run by Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling, whose estranged husband, Donald Sterling, is being forced to sell the NBA team after making racist remarks, will have a stake in the franchise, a source close to negotiations said on Monday. The foundation can have up to a 10 percent share…
Makis Voridis, a longtime member of ultranationalist parties, was appointed health minister in Greece. Monday’s appointment, part of a widespread government reshuffle, was met with disappointment by members of the Greek Jewish community. “No Jewish person can be happy about the appointment of a man who was, until two years ago, a head of the…
Alexander Imich, the Polish-born American Jewish parapsychologist who died over the weekend at age 111, suggested that belief, or even credulity, might be a key to longevity. Imich, a Holocaust survivor who lived in New York, was considered the oldest man on earth at the time of his death. A devotee of the Israeli-born illusionist…
Human Rights Watch labeled the shooting deaths of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli soldiers during a West Bank protest an Israeli war crime. In a report titled “Killing of Children Apparent War Crime” published Monday, the human rights group said the soldiers used live ammunition during the May 15 demonstration in the town of Beitunia….
The Nathan Cummings Foundation has fired its leader Simon Greer, according to several sources in the Jewish organizational world. A spokesman for the Cummings foundation, which still lists Greer as president and CEO on its website, did not deny the firing. The foundation, which spends about $20 million per year, is the single biggest funder…
Iran is negotiating seriously on a deal to curb its disputed nuclear program, a senior Israeli intelligence officer said on Monday in a shift of tone from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s skepticism. Brigadier-General Itai Brun, military intelligence’s chief analyst, told a strategic forum that Iran was honoring a November interim agreement that Netanyahu had condemned…
The world’s new oldest man was born just 24 hours after Alexander Immich, the New York Holocaust survivor who died over the weekend. The ranking now goes to Sakari Momoi of Japan, born on Feb. 5, 1903, one day after Imich, according to the Gerontology Research Group of Torrance, California. Dozens of women were older…
Law enforcement officials are looking into whether a man and woman who killed two Las Vegas police officers and a third person before killing themselves Sunday had links to the white supremacy movement, according to a report on Monday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, citing city law enforcement sources, said investigators discovered paraphernalia associated with white…
Britain’s top school inspector said on Monday that an investigation into an alleged plot by extremist Muslims to take over the running of some schools in the city of Birmingham had found that a culture of “fear and intimidation” existed. In March, an official investigation was sparked by an anonymous, unverified letter which claimed there…
A Knesset committee approved a physician-assisted suicide bill. The bill passed the Ministerial Committee on Legislation Sunday by a vote of 8 to 2. The vote was appealed Monday by Senior Citizens Minister Uri Orbach of the Jewish Home party, who called the bill a “pill of death.” The bill allows a doctor to prescribe…
(Reuters) — National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver said on Sunday a single obstacle blocked completion of the $2-billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers – a lawsuit brought by embattled owner Donald Sterling against the league. Sterling, 80, sued the NBA and Silver on May 30 seeking at least $1 billion in damages just…
