U.S. military doctors stationed in Germany will continue to perform circumcisions despite a ruling that has roiled the country’s medical and political establishments. Stars and Stripes on Monday quoted U.S. officials as saying that a decision by a Cologne court banning circumcision for non-medical reasons applies only in that jurisdiction, where there are no U.S….
People of Israel deserve better diplomatic protection than that they have been receiving from the United States under President Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in an address on Tuesday. Speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nevada on his upcoming visit to Israel, Romney said the incumbent president…
Seventy Teach for America participants are visiting Israel to learn about Israel’s approach to education and community service. As part of the 12-day program, the American teachers are meeting with their Israeli counterparts from Teach First Israel, a similar program that launched in 2010 and now has 143 teachers working in 33 schools across Israel….
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has given $1 million each to the Jewish Agency and Chabad to help them guard against anti-Semitic and terrorist attacks. The money will go to fund infrastructure upgrades and security measures for Jewish communities around the world that are unable to fund security expenses on their own. “There…
The California Supreme Court upheld class-action status for a lawsuit alleging gross misconduct by a Jewish funeral services provider that had paid a $100 settlement over similar misconduct. On Monday, the court upheld a lower court ruling on the suit against Texas-based Service Corporation International alleging mass desecration of grave sites at a Jewish cemetery…
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Turkish journalists that Israel has “no reason to apologize” for the Mavi Marmara incident. Lieberman in a meeting Sunday with the journalists in Jerusalem said that Israel is ready to discuss the incident and would consider the issue of an apology as part of a package including other issues,…
The founder of London’s Shomrim patrol carried the Olympic torch in South London. Efrayim Goldstein, 23, was one of 187 people who carried the Olympic torch through the city on Monday. Goldstein wore the official white Olympic uniform and was given a matching yarmulke, according to VIN News. He carried the torch for about a…
A large police force was dispatched Monday evening to a Jerusalem café, after patrons that had gathered to view a video on gay pride received death threats from local residents. Squad cars, riot police and an unmarked police car were sent to Hasalon café in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot, in order to restore public…
Despite a statement from the head of the Iranian Olympic committee asserting that Iranian athletes can compete against Israelis in the London Olympic Games, it is unlikely to occur. Bahram Afsharzadeh, head of the Iranian Olympic Mission, said Monday that his athletes will compete against Israeli athletes in the games that start this week. But…
The two major branches of Chabad-Lubavitch in Australia are in the grip of separate crises that threaten to tar the movement’s reputation and undermine much of the work the Hasidic organization has invested in the six decades since it began operating here. In Melbourne, a judge last week set the date for the trial of…
When Justice Ministry officials began to draft a law that would ban Africans migrants from sending money from Israel to their relatives at home, they were not surprised to discover that hundreds of thousands of shekels from the foreign workers’ salaries find their way overseas every week. What stunned the officials, however, was the discovery…
