Nine members of the haredi Orthodox Lev Tahor sect who fled Canada earlier this week were returned to the country. A plane carrying three Lev Tahor adults and six children from Trinidad and Tobago was greeted Saturday night by Toronto-area police and children’s aid officials. The children were taken into the custody of Chatham-Kent Children’s…
Israeli military forces began unloading and searching the cargo of an Iranian ship captured in the Red Sea carrying weapons bound for Gaza. The civilian vessel the Klos C, which was carrying the weapons, including medium-range missiles capable of hitting major Israeli cities, hidden amid commercial cargo, arrived in the Eilat port on Saturday afternoon,…
The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv did not publish a Sunday edition. Workers were told by owner Shlomo Ben Tzvi not to come to work on Saturday night, the Times of Israel reported. The on-line edition was published on Maariv’s NRG website, however. It is not known if the newspaper will resume printing on Monday. The…
National Jewish organizations oppose a bill under consideration by Maryland legislators that would financially penalize any college involved in an academic boycott of another country. The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League in statements have said that while they clearly do not support the American Studies Association’s call for a boycott of Israel, which…
Israeli consular delegations told Jewish communities that consular services would be limited to emergencies because of a diplomats’ strike. “There will be no consular services until further notice except life-threatening situations and burials in Israel,” said one statement, distributed by the San Francisco consulate and attributed to the Foreign Service Workers’ Association. “Phone calls will…
A ship seized by the Israeli navy on suspicion of smuggling arms from Iran to the Gaza Strip docked on Saturday in Israel, which planned to put the cargo on display in hope of denting Tehran’s rapprochement with the West. The Klos C was taken without resistance in the Red Sea on Wednesday. Israel said…
Jewish groups across the religious spectrum praised Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines on accommodating religious attire in the workplace. The guidelines published Thursday are for “employers with at least 15 employees (including private sector, state, and local government employers), as well as employment agencies, unions, and federal government agencies.” These employers “must make exceptions to…
A Canadian judge has ordered child protection officials to use law enforcement agencies to apprehend 14 children in the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor after most of them fled the country. On Wednesday, the judge was supposed to hear an appeal of an earlier ruling to seize the children and return them to Quebec to…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would give up “some settlements” in occupied Palestinian land to help secure a peace agreement but would limit as much as he could the number of enclaves removed. The settlements are a key issue in peace talks renewed under Washington’s tutelage in July after a three-year impasse. Little progress…
For 17-year-old Bolodimir Bedyuk, a Ukrainian who was severely wounded in clashes with Ukrainian forces on Feb. 18, Israeli medical care may be his only hope. After a pitched battle with Ukrainian police forces on Institutskaya Street in Kiev, Bedyuk suffered extensive liver damage — his brother, Aleksei, said Bolodimir’s liver “was torn practically in…
Nadia Haroun, deputy head of the Egyptian Jewish community, has died. Haroun, sister of Magda Haroun, the current head of the Egypt’s Jewish community, suffered a heart attack late Thursday night, Al Ahram reported. Haroun , a lawyer, was the daughter of Shehata Haroun, a prominent leftist activist who refused to emigrate to Israel, known…
