Thousands of Israelis are expected to participate in a series of social protests in Tel Aviv on Saturday, days after two streams within the larger social protest movement decided to join forces earlier in the week. On Thursday, social protest leaders and those of the Israeli Forum for Equal Service announced that they would team…
A physicist said he would probably donate part of the $3 million he won in a surprise award to J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group. Edward Witten, a professor of mathematical physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton N.J., was one of nine physicists chosen by Yuri Milner, a Russian high-tech investor, to…
A German Olympic rower has left the Olympic Village following claims that her boyfriend is a member of an extremist political party inspired by the Nazis. Nadja Drygalla, who had already finished competing at the Games as part of the women’s rowing eight team reportedly left today of her own accord after a 90-minute conversation…
The Palestinian Authority is considering a bid in September to be a UN “non-member observer state.” P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to take the step, and has the backing of the Arab League, but has not yet decided when he will go ahead, according to the Associated Press. Abbas leans toward waiting until after…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the objective of the world must be the “annihilation” of Israel. Ahmadinejad met Wednesday with ambassadors from Muslim countries to convey his wishes for the holy month of Ramadan. Much of his speech, according to IRNA, the official Iranian news agency, focused on what Ahmadinejad described as Zionist control of…
New Zealand won its first gold medal of the London Olympics when rowers Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan took first place in the men’s double sculls event. Cohen, who is Jewish, previously won gold in the men’s double sculls event in both the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships. He also is the first person…
An award-winning surgeon at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital was charged with using a secret pen camera to take pictures up women’s skirts on the subway. Dr. Adam Levinson, 39, a top urologist and assistant professor at the hospital’s school of medicine, allegedly used a folded newspaper to disguise the tiny camera as he rode…
French Jewish leaders are calling the tossing of two pig heads into a mosque not far from Toulouse “an odious desecration.” Worshippers at the Salam mosque in Montauban in southern France discovered two pig heads at the entrance to the building yesterday. On March 15, Muslim extremist Mohammed Merah murdered two French soldiers in the…
Israeli authorities warned Israelis to return immediately from the Sinai peninsula, citing a terrorist threat. “From information at our disposal, it arises that terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and additional elements are actively planning to perpetrate terrorist attacks, especially abductions, against Israeli tourists in Sinai in the immediate term,” said a warning issued Thursday…
Jewish speakers are expected to criticize International Olympics Committee president when he attends a memorial ceremony for Israeli coaches and athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Monday’s service, which is a Jewish community event, has created a “dilemma” for organizers, according to the London Jewish Chronicle. IOC president Jacques Rogge refused international appeals including…
A line snakes down the lawn of the red brick town hall topped by a gold cupola of this New England town founded in 1711, today a suburb of Boston. So many fans have arrived to cheer on Aly Raisman, the hometown Olympic hero, for an “Aly Rally” that overflow rooms are opened and some…
