A coordinated cyber attack on Israeli websites has so far been relatively ineffective. The international hacking group Anonymous and its followers had announced that Monday would be “Operation Israel,” or “OpIsrael,” a day of targeting Israeli websites in retaliation for Israel’s “assault on the people of Gaza.” “On April 7, 2014, we call upon our…
U.S. efforts to save Middle East peace talks from collapse showed little sign of progress on Monday amid threats from Israel to retaliate for what it saw as unilateral Palestinian moves towards statehood. The U.S.-brokered negotiations plunged into crisis last week after Israel, demanding a Palestinian commitment to continue talking after the end of the…
The Hillel-affiliated Wesleyan Jewish Community announced its “solidarity with, and support of, the Open Hillel movement.” The statement issued April 2 was signed by three current Jewish student leaders and nine former Jewish student leaders at Wesleyan University in Connecticuit. “At Wesleyan, values of inclusion are central to our identity both as Jews and as…
Family members of terror victims killed by Palestinian prisoners released in connection with the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard. The letter, signed by 22 terror victim relatives, was delivered Sunday to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro to be passed on to the U.S. president, according to the…
Three members of the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor have been ordered deported to their native Israel. The three have been held in detention since April 2, when officials of the Canada Border Services Agency raided the Lev Tahor compound in Chatham, Ont., about three hours from Toronto, and arrested six sect members over suspected…
Several firebombs were thrown at a dance club near Hebrew University. The club is located next to the university’s Mount Scopus campus in French Hill in Jerusalem. French Hill is located alongside the eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Isawiya. The club is in an area popular with students. One person was injured in the attack….
A Palestinian man was arrested while attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. The man, who appeared to be drunk, was carrying a 12-inch knife at the entrance to the community on Friday night, it was announced late Saturday. He told police called to the scene that…
An Arab-Israeli microbiologist from northern Israel won the fourth season of Israel’s reality show “Master Chef.” Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, a 33-year-old mother of three, was crowned the winner of Israel’s most-watched television show on Sunday night. She appeared in the final with Ido Kronenberg of the central Israeli city of Savyon, and Meseret Woldimikhal, an…
Non-pork options for Jewish and Muslim students will no longer be offered in school menus in towns where the far-right National Front party won local elections, the head of the party said. “We will not accept any religious demands in school menus,” National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said in an interview on RTL…
Israel struck five targets throughout Gaza hours after a rocket fired from Gaza landed near the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. Direct hits were confirmed on what the Israel Defense Forces called in a statement “terror sites.” The attacks occurred late on Saturday night. Earlier, on Saturday evening, a rocket fired from Gaza landed in…
A defamation suit launched by a senior Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi has been settled following a public apology by the founder of a victims’ advocate group. Rabbi Abraham Glick was questioned by police in December 2013 regarding explosive claims he sexually abused a student in the 1970s when he was deputy principal of Yeshivah College in Melbourne….
