The Migron outpost in the West Bank was not evacuated as scheduled. The eviction had been scheduled for Tuesday, the same day that the Israeli Supreme Court conducted a hearing on a petition filed by the residents requesting a delay in the eviction until the modular homes being built for the evacuees are completed. They…
Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Aly Raisman will be inducted into The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame & Museum. Raisman, 18, of Needham, Mass., will be among eight inductees into the hall in Commack, N.Y., in April. Also to be honored at the 21st annual induction ceremony is weighlifter David Berger, who was among the…
The families of the Israelis killed in a terror attack at the airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, attended a ceremony for the victims. The memorial was held Tuesday at the Great Synagogue in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The families of the five victims of the July 18 attack visited the site of the suicide bombing…
Bitterlemons, a joint Palestinian-Israeli Internet effort to promote an exchange of views about the Israeli-Arab conflict and other Middle East issues, is closing. The closing of the publications, including two weekly e-magazines as well as Internet forums on Middle East topics, was announced this week by bitterlemons’ co-founders Yossi Alpher and Ghassan Khatib in separate…
Gilad Shalit marked his first birthday since being freed from Hamas captivity. Shalit turned 26 on Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Shalit to wish him a happy birthday. “This is a particularly happy birthday,” Netanyahu reportedly told Shalit. “It is a birthday of freedom. The entire Israeli nation wishes you mazal tov.” The Shalit…
French prosecutors have launched a formal murder investigation into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, AFP news agency reported Tuesday. AFP reported that the prosecutor’s office in the town of Nanterre west of Paris had ordered a murder investigation following a formal complaint by Arafat’s widow, Suha Arafat. The probe will be…
Hawaii’s largest temple, beset by synagogue politics that spurred a violent incident and allegations of “Nazi-like propaganda,” cemented the ouster of its rabbi with the election of a new board. Cliff Halevi won Sunday’s election, becoming the new board president of Honolulu’s Temple Emanu-El, the only Reform temple on the island of Oahu. In May,…
Two masked men attacked and wounded Ismail Adara, a 67-year-old Palestinian shepherd on Monday, in the cave village of Bir al Eid in the South Hebron hills, as he was grazing his flock near the village. He was rushed to hospital in Hebron with wounds in the neck and fingers, and with possible head fractures….
Turkey’s minister for European affairs, Egemen Bagis, has called circumcision bans in Germany “a danger for liberty.” In an Op-Ed published Tuesday in the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, Bagis wrote that recent court rulings in Germany against circumcision mean that “Turkey watches on with astonishment how freedom of ritual is no longer fully guaranteed in…
Nine Jewish teens were indicted in the attack on three Palestinians in Jerusalem that left one of the victims seriously injured. The teens were indicted Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court for the Aug. 16 incident. One of the teens, Shimon Siman Tov, 19, was indicted as an adult and charged with incitement, a call to…
Former longtime Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania confirmed that he is fighting a new battle with cancer — and vowed to beat the deadly disease. “I am battling cancer, and it’s another battle I intend to win,” Specter said in a statement issued by his office Tuesday. “I am grateful for the well wishes I…
