The brakes of a private jet crashed as it tried to take off on Saturday, killing Lewis Katz and six other people near Boston, had been applied at the time of the accident, a U.S. transportation official said on Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Luke Schiada told reporters that a review of the flight…
Eitan Green, a Solomon Schechter day school alumnus from Needham, Mass., was among six hikers killed on Mount Rainier. Green, an experienced mountain guide for Alpine Ascents International who had made more than 40 ascents up Mount Rainier, was ascending the north face of the mountain with one other guide and four climbers when the…
Hillary Rodham Clinton hasn’t formally announced she is running in 2016, but the battle over the Jewish vote is already on. On Tuesday, a group of Jewish Democrats launched Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary, raising money and support for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. It is part of the broader Ready for Hillary campaign that was…
(Reuters) — Alexander Shulgin, who over the course of 40 years of scientific research created some 200 psychedelic compounds, earning the nickname “Godfather of ecstasy” for his pioneering work with the drug, has died at the age of 88. Shulgin died on Monday at his home in Northern California, “surrounded by family and caretakers and Buddhist…
A billboard featuring a quote from Adolf Hitler next to pictures of five smiling children was taken down on Tuesday in the city of Auburn, Alabama at the request of the church group that bought it after the sign drew criticism. The billboard message, purchased by Life Savers Ministries to promote the church group, quoted…
A leading Open Orthodox rabbi has defended the progressive movement against attacks made last week by Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the head of the ultra-Orthodox organization Agudath Israel. “I welcome (Perlow) into the conversation of how to bring a Torah message to all Jews that is meaningful to them and their lives,” said Rabbi Asher Lopatin,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked French President Francois Hollande for his country’s capture of the alleged Brussels Jewish museum gunman. In a telephone conversation on Tuesday, Netanyahu also thanked Hollande for his “strong and consistent stand against anti-Semitism,” according to the Prime Minister’s Office. Mehdi Nemmouche was arrested at Marseille’s main train and bus…
A firebomb thrown into a former synagogue in central Romania caused minor damage, a local Jewish watchdog group said. The firebomb was aimed at the wooden part of the floor of the former synagogue of Sighisoara, the Center for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism in Romania said in a statement Tuesday about the recent attack. The…
Israeli middle schools will for the first time teach evolution as part of the core curriculum. The Education Ministry announced Sunday that beginning with the coming school year, the theory of evolution will be taught to seventh grade through ninth grade students in secular state schools, state-religious schools and Arab schools. The curricula will include…
The state of Ohio dedicated a Holocaust memorial on the Statehouse grounds in the state capital Columbus. The Ohio Holocaust & Liberators Memorial was dedicated Monday at a ceremony which drew 1,500 people including Holocaust survivors and former U.S. soldiers. The18-foot tall memorial, which resembles a shattered Star of David, was designed by Polish-born architect…
An investigation into former six-term Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes found his office spent more than $200,000 in seized criminal funds on consultant services for his failed reelection campaign last year, a report said on Monday. A 27-page report by the New York City Department of Investigations reviewed by Reuters said Hynes is potentially guilty…
