The murderer of 8-year-old Orthodox Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison, the AP reported today. The sentencing comes weeks after Levi Aron, 36, pleaded guilty to the July 2011 killing. “G-d willing, the sentencing of Levi Aron today will finally remove the spotlight from this tragedy and…
The religious women’s organization Kolech filed a class-action lawsuit against an Israeli haredi Orthodox radio station for excluding women. The nearly $26 million lawsuit filed Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court against Kol Berama alleges that the station does not hire women as interviewers or invite women to be interviewed. “From the start, the station adhered…
Israeli doubles sensation Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram survived an early scare at the U.S. Open to take down Mikhail Elgin and Denis Istomin, 7-6, 6-2. Erlich and Ram will face the Harrison brothers, Christian and Ryan, in the second round. Meanwhile, Scott Lipsky also advanced to the second round of the Men’s doubles draw,…
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that the West Bank outpost of Migron must be evacuated by Sept. 4. All 50 families must leave the outpost, the court ruled Wednesday in response to a petition filed by the families requesting a delay in the eviction until the modular homes being built for the evacuees are completed. They…
The Claims Conference accused Hungary’s government of “depriving” Holocaust survivors through “disgraceful” and “deceitful tactics.” The allegations came after Budapest demanded on Monday that the Claims Conference, an organization representing world Jewry in compensation talks on Holocaust-era crimes,” return” $12.6 million to Hungary’s treasury. An announcement published on the website of the Hungarian Ministry of…
Michigan police are reportedly refusing to treat as a hate crime an attack in which a Jewish student was set upon by skinhead thugs, spewing hate and stapling his mouth shut. Capt. Jeff Murphy of the East Lansing police told the State News, Michigan State University’s student newspaper, that witnesses did not hear Nazi or…
The California State Assembly approved a resolution calling on colleges and universities in the state to combat anti-Semitism. The symbolic resolution was approved Tuesday with no debate, according to the Associated Press. The resolution also calls on the schools to quash campus demonstrations against Israel. Pro-Palestinian and free speech activists were angered by the resolution,…
A furor has erupted between the president of Australia’s Jewish community and a group of former Israeli soldiers who reported abuses they witnessed while serving in the Palestinian territories. The front pages of the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s The Age newspapers on Monday carried a report on the release Aug. 24 of testimonies by…
For 40 years these documents lay in the Israel State Archives in Jerusalem, many of them hidden, kept out of the reach of researchers and the general public. Now, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics, which is coming up next week, the State…
Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi warned Dutch politician Geert Wilders that attempts to ban ritual slaughter will eventually force Jews to leave the Netherlands. Rabbi Yona Metzger on Tuesday wrote a letter to Wilders saying he was “shocked and upset” to learn Wilders’ rightist Party for Freedom adopted a ban on ritual slaughter in its election…
The Republican Jewish Coalition praised the Republican Party platform, focusing particularly on its Israel planks and noting the document’s endorsement of two states for Israelis and Palestinians. “The 2012 Republican platform is a forward-looking document that celebrates American exceptionalism and focuses on the most pressing issues facing our nation: rebuilding our economic strength, providing for…
