A Star of David stylized piece of sculpture was inaugurated by Brazil’s Defense Minister Celso Amorim at the Monument to the Brazilian soldiers of World War II in Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro. The sculpture was unveiled Aug. 5 with the help of the Jewish Confederation of Brazil and the Jewish Federation of Rio…
A public prosecutor in Italy has opened an inquiry after a vacationing Jewish-American couple complained about wine with a picture of Adolf Hitler on the label for sale in a shop near Verona. The Forward wrote about the Hitler and Mussolini wines in 2010. Verona prosecutor Mario Giulia Schinaia has opened an investigation into whether…
So how is that the current Prime Minister of Israel has been using crutches for the past two months in order to move from place to place, and we haven’t even seen one photo? On Monday, Netanyahu arrived at the Knesset for the first time since he tore a tendon during a soccer match with…
Suspected war criminal Laszlo Csatary of Hungary will not be charged with the murder of 300 Jews in 1941, prosecutors in Budapest said. Csatary’s alleged complicity in the murder of some 15,000 Jews in 1944 is still being investigated. Accusations that Csatary, 97, helped send the 300 to their deaths at the Kamyanets-Podilsky camp in…
The Guardian newspaper retracted its claim that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel after a watchdog group filed a lawsuit against Britain’s Press Complaints Commission. In May, The Guardian posted a photo with a caption that referred to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The caption was later corrected, saying that it “wrongly referred to the…
Move over Michael Phelps, we have Rebecca Soni batting for our team. And by batting, I mean swimming laps. American breast stroke champion Rebecca Soni, who just picked up three Olympics medals, including two golds, and two world records this past week, is Jewish. Growing up in Freehold, N.J., Soni began swimming at an early…
Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman expressed her support for an Olympic moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Olympics in 1972 during an interview following her gold medal win. “Having that floor music wasn’t intentional,” Raisman told reporters of her floor routine to the music of “Hava Nagila,” the New York Post…
A dig conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Hod Hasharon has uncovered a rare olive press from the Byzantine period, some 1,300 years ago. The excavation was being done ahead of the building of a new road in the area, near Kfar Malal. The dig revealed a surface for pressing the olives and a…
The South African government slammed Israel’s decision not to allow delegates from countries in the Non-Aligned Movement that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel to travel to Ramallah. The meeting of the Non-Aligned countries in Ramallah was cancelled Sunday, following Israel’s decision not to allow delegates from Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Cuba to enter….
Egyptian attack helicopters and troops reportedly struck and killed at least 20 terrorists in the Sinai. The strikes on Wednesday morning were in retaliation for the deaths of at least 15 Egyptian policemen in an attack at the Rafah security checkpoint in Sinai, in which the terrorists also attempted to infiltrate Israel. The strikes also…
A new study of genetic affinity among Jewish communities has uncovered evidence of genetic roots among Jews from North Africa that stretch back 2,000 years. Some findings are surprising: It turns out that Syrian Jews have more genetic commonality with Ashkenazi (European) Jews than with other oriental Jews (Jews from Asian and African lands). Also,…
