Leonard Garment, the special counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, has died, the New York Times reported on Monday. He was 89. Garment’s daughter, Ann Garment, confirmed the death to the newspaper. She said he died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. Garment, a Jewish lawyer and…
Leaders of American Judaism’s two largest religious streams visited Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard in prison July 11 to underline their demand that he be freed after serving 28 years of a life sentence. Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Conservative rabbinical organization the Rabbinical Assembly, and Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the…
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein informed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu on Monday evening that it would be inappropriate for him to run for the post of Sephardi chief rabbi, in light of certain contentious remarks and the “legal difficulties” posed by his candidacy. Eliyahu, the current chief rabbi of Safed and the son of former Sephardi Chief…
Israel has launched a forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants that amounts to a grave violation of their human rights because of the risk of persecution in their reclusive homeland, an advocacy group said on Monday. Israeli authorities have been trying to curb an influx of Africans that has ignited resentment in the poorer neighbourhoods in…
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and multi-millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi confirmed on Monday they were getting divorced, a month after a newspaper published photographs of him with his hands around her throat outside a London restaurant. The photos showed Lawson, hugely popular in Britain for her television cooking shows, in tears and brought Saatchi, a…
A man in northern Israel was reportedly bitten on the penis by a snake while sitting on the toilet Friday night. The unidentified man, who was visiting his parents in the Galilee town of Nofit, was rushed to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa after he reported feeling a burning sensation and seeing a snake…
The foreign ministers of the European Union are most likely to add Hezbollah’s military wing to the body’s list of designated terror organizations when they meet on July 22, according to high-ranking Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem. The officials said Britain and the United States are pressing several EU countries that are reluctant to back…
Actress Lea Michele, the Jewish star of ‘Glee,’ was reportedly left “devastated” by the news that her boyfriend, Canadian actor Cory Monteith, died over the weekend. “She is devastated,” a friend told the Daily News. “She was shaking when she heard the news.” The 31-year-old heart throb of Fox’s musical-comedy television series “Glee”, was found…
Poland’s chief rabbi said he will resign if a definitive ban on kosher slaughter is imposed in the country. “I cannot imagine serving as chief rabbi in a country in which the rights of the Jewish religion are curtailed, as I would not be able then to serve properly my coreligionists,” Rabbi Michael Schudrich wrote…
Israeli archaeologists last week discovered a fragment of a ceramic jar they say dates back to the time of Kings David and Solomon and bears the earliest sample of written text ever found in Jerusalem. The inscription is engraved on a large pithos, a neckless ceramic jar found during excavations at the Ophel site, near…
Israel flew 14 Eritreans back to their home country on Sunday, human rights organizations say. According to reports, 14 Eritrean nationals who had been held at the Saharonim detention facility in southern Israel were flown to Eritrea via Turkey after signing consent forms. One man changed his mind after signing the documents and remained in…
