NASA’s only identical twin astronauts are planning to serve as guinea pigs for studies investigating the genetic impacts of long-duration spaceflight. Astronaut Mark Kelly, who commanded four space shuttle missions including the final flight of Endeavour, is set to be a test subject on Earth while his twin undergoes studies in orbit. Kelly left NASA…
One of the Jewish women who was attacked with acid on the African island of Zanzibar has thanked supporters after returning to Britain for treatment. Katie Gee Tweeted: “Thank you for all your support x,” from her bed at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, the BBC reported. Gee and Kirstie Trup, both 18, are…
The Jehoash Tablet is a stone bearing an inscription in ancient Hebrew describing the renovation of the First Temple by the Jehoash, King of Judea. If it is authentic, it is one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century. But for many years, in one of the most complex cases ever to…
An Islamist militant group said on Saturday four of its members were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Egypt’s North Sinai region. “Our heroes became martyrs during their jihadi duties against the Jews in a rocket attack on occupied lands,” the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group said on a jihadist website. Egyptian security sources said…
Eliot Spitzer’s rival in the Democratic race for New York City comptroller repeatedly raised the prostitution scandal that forced Spitzer to resign as New York’s governor during Friday’s televised debate, despite having vowed to avoid it. “There’s two tiers of justice in this city,” said Scott Stringer, the Manhattan Borough president who is running against…
Bernard Madoff was in a “love triangle” involving one of five former employees who are about to go on trial for helping him run his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said. Madoff pleaded guilty in March 2009 to running a fraud of up to $65 billion at his investment firm and is serving a 150-year prison…
An Israeli company accused of helping rig Robert Mugabe’s reelection as Zimbabwe president reportedly hastily shut down its office in the capital of Harare as controversy swirls around its role in the tainted poll. Nikuv’s office in the leafy Avondale section of Harare was closed down and company representatives were nowhere to be found this…
Elisabeth Maxwell, an expert on the Holocaust and the widow of the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, has died at the age of 92. Maxwell, who was not Jewish, devoted her adult life to Holocaust education and Jewish-Christian relations. The New York Times reported that she died Wednesday in Dordogne, France, quoting her daughter, Ghislaine….
Men riding a motorbike threw acid at two Jewish British teenage girls in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar region, leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries, a senior police official said. Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee, both 18 and from northwest London, were flown to Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam for treatment. The girls’ parents…
An auction house in Britain is investigating the authenticity of a letter billed as sent by a Nazi official and detailing Jewish transports during the Holocaust. The letter details the transportation of 5,000 Jews daily to the Treblinka extermination camp and is to be auctioned off on August 21 by Mullock’s, an auctioneer in the…
Israel appealed to the European Union on Friday to rethink planned sanctions against its organisations in the occupied territories and called for talks, a shift in tone from previous Israeli anger and retaliatory measures. Under guidelines adopted by the executive European Commission in June, Israeli “entities” operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will…
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