Babson College formally apologized to Brandeis University for the anti-Semitic behavior of its men’s soccer team 35 years ago. Babson President Len Schlesinger delivered an official apology on Wednesday at the ADL New England headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League, according to Boston.com., and announced that the college is creating a partnership with the ADL aimed…
YouTube removed a video calling on Alicia Keys to cancel a concert in Tel Aviv. Set to Keys’ popular song “This Girl is on Fire,” the video was removed on Monday, according to the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The video, “Alicia Keys, Come Together with Your Sisters, Boycott Apartheid,”…
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt has lashed out at the leaders of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany over their handling of a $57 million fraud case. “The Claims Conference conducted a self-audit, recovered a miniscule bit of the money, and declared victory,” she wrote dismissively on a new Jewish Facebook group that launched…
David Stav has based his campaign to become Israel’s next Ashkenazi chief rabbi on a message of inclusion, friendliness and tolerance. But in an exclusive interview with JTA, he spoke harsh words against those who have attacked him in recent weeks. The attacks began two Saturday nights ago, when Rabbi Ovadia Yosef used his weekly…
B’nai B’rith International has disassociated itself from a news story critical of former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit published in a Canadian Jewish newspaper. In anticipation of a four-city visit to Canada by Gilad Shalit, The Jewish Tribune, Canada’s largest Jewish newspaper founded and still closely associated with B’nai Brith Canada, criticized the former Hamas…
Two leaders of Ukraine’s ultranationalist Svoboda Party have been banned from entering the United States for their open anti-Semitism, a Ukrainian daily reported. Svoboda leaders Oleh Tyahnybok and Igor Miroshnichenko were declared persona non grata in the United States earlier this year, following talks with Jewish leaders including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, according to a…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be willing to withdraw from most of the West Bank and evacuate numerous settlements as part of an agreement with the Palestinians, as long as his security demands were satisfied, a senior cabinet minister from Netanyahu’s Likud party told Haaretz. The senior minister, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity…
Secretary of State John Kerry’s drive to revive Middle East peace talks hit familiar warning signals on Thursday as Israel’s prime minister stressed security needs and a Palestinian negotiator denounced Israeli settlement building. Kerry, on his fifth visit to the region, met Jordan’s King Abdullah for talks focused on both the peace process and the…
A Dutch court ordered the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam to return archival material to a Swiss charity named for the teenage Jewish diarist. The Anne Frank Foundation must give back the archive to the Anne Frank Fund in Basel by Jan. 1, the Amsterdam District Court ruled on Wednesday. Since 2007, the archive has…
McDonald’s Israel declined an offer to open a restaurant in Ariel because it is located in the West Bank. In a statement, McDonald’s said its refusal to open a franchise in the West Bank has “always been the restaurant chain’s policy,” according to the Calcalist, the Israeli business daily that first reported the story. McDonald’s…
If Thea Spyer, whose death in 2009 set the stage for Wednesday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, were still alive, she might tell her partner, Edith Windsor, “You did it, honey!” Windsor, who is Jewish and just turned 84 just a few days ago, spoke those words at a triumphant news conference at…
דער באַגריף, ייִדישע אױטאָנאָמיע אין גלות — הײַנט פּאָפּולער בײַ קריטיקער פֿון ציוניזם — איז היסטאָריש ניט געװען קײן דערפֿאָלג.
