Major powers and Iran are getting closer to a first-stage agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, adding it is “quite possible” a deal could be reached when negotiators meet Nov. 21-22 in Geneva. “I don’t know if we will reach an agreement. I think it is quite possible…
Authorities charged the owner of a New York insurance company with helping William Rapfogel, the former chief of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, steal more than $7 million from the organization. The owner, Joseph Ross, was arrested Wednesday and charged with a litany of crimes, including first-degree grand larceny and money laundering, according to…
Naomi Zeveloff, the Forward’s deputy culture editor and editor of The Sisterhood, was awarded a Front Page Award in Newspapers with circulation of less than 100,000 by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Zeveloff’s winning piece, “Noah Pozner’s Family Remembers and Mourns,” was written in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in…
Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital says it plans to defy Quebec’s controversial Charter of Secular Values. The proposed law, known as Bill 60, is “patently discriminatory,” the hospital said in a statement Nov. 13. The bill, proposed by the governing Parti Quebecois to establish what it has called religious neutrality and gender equality, would ban all…
A police investigation into sex abuse allegations against Chaim Halpern, a prominent London rabbi, has been dropped. The Metropolitan Police said Friday that a file passed to the Crown Prosecution Service “regarding allegations of sexual assault has resulted in no charges being brought against a 54-year-old man,” The Jewish Chronicle of London reported on its…
Hungarian officials questioned the methodology of a survey that showed greater fear of anti-Semitism among Jews in Hungary than in other European countries. The head of the Hungarian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Gergely Prohle, raised “several questions with relation to methodology, strongly questioning its representative nature,” according to a Nov. 12 statement…
President Shimon Peres urged Israelis on Friday to show respect for the United States, seeking to soothe relations with the country’s most powerful ally that have been strained over Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned a proposal, endorsed by Washington, to reduce sanctions if Iran suspends parts of its nuclear programme. Several ministers have…
Italian police launched a widespread operation against the neo-Nazi Internet hate organization Stormfront. On Thursday, police searched the homes of 35 people aged 17-51 in more than 20 towns and cities up and down the Italian peninsula on suspicion of spreading ideas on the Internet “based on racial and ethnic hatred and incitement to commit…
The Central Intelligence Agency declassified documents dealing with the Camp David Accords. The 1,400 pages of intelligence, dated from January 1977 to March 1979, were declassified on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. The documents cover the time period from before the summit to the following spring, when Egypt and Israel signed the peace treaty. President…
Janet Yellen’s hopes of becoming the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve got a boost on Thursday when she sailed through her Senate confirmation hearing with only mild questioning from some of the Fed’s fiercest Republican critics. Yellen, the U.S. central bank’s current vice chair, brought a calm and confident demeanor to the Senate…
A former aide to President George W. Bush has expressed discomfort with the fact that his former boss is scheduled to speak to a Jews for Jesus fundraising event in Dallas, CNN reported on Thursday. Tevi Troy, an Orthodox Jew, worked for Bush as a liaison to the Jewish community and a deputy secretary at…
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