The Romney campaign has invited donors to a fundraiser in Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday that the fundraiser would take place on July 29 in Jerusalem and would cost $60,000 a plate. A donor who has been invited confirmed the fundraiser to JTA, although the Romney campaign formally had no comment. The donor was…
Jewish clergy joined religious leaders of several faiths at a breakfast meeting to discuss the need for a higher minimum wage in New York. Organized by a non-partisan advocacy group Working Families, the Faith and Clergy Breakfast was intended to gather support for the campaign for raising minimum wage, and specifically for a rally being…
A meeting of a committee convened for the purpose of creating new IDF draft legislation, focusing on ultra-Orthodox recruits, broke down as an intense argument between Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner and Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon erupted on Wednesday. The two plan to submit the bill on Monday for a first reading in the plenum,…
A Muslim politician running for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State in Missouri has stated that no Jews died in the World Trade Center on 9-11 and has alleged that Jews were involved in the deadly attack. MD Rabbi Alam, chairman of the National Democratic Party Asian American Caucus and, according to the Washington…
The former White House press secretary for the Bush administration has assailed President Obama for “pushing Israel around” and forcing the Jewish state to “make harmful, unwise concessions.” Addressing a group of dual Israeli-U.S. citizens Tuesday night at a get-out-the-vote event in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Ari Fleischer questioned Obama’s commitment to Israel….
The border fence with Egypt, which was primarily intended to prevent the infiltration of unlawful labor migrants into Israel, is not scheduled to be completed before early 2013. Until then, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is interested in trying to deter African migrants through other means, namely a negative public relations campaign about the practicability of…
Britain’s organized Jewish community slammed the Church of England’s General Synod for endorsing an “inflammatory and partisan” anti-Israel program. The Synod on Tuesday passed a motion to support “the vital work” of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. The program brings church volunteers to the West Bank to “experience life under occupation” for…
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spent the afternoon Tuesday, in his home in Motza near Jerusalem, receiving a stream of calls and flower bouquets congratulating him on his acquittals earlier that day. One of the more interesting of these congratulations was a phone call from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian leader, who has been…
Israeli President Shimon Peres called West Bank settlements a threat to Israel. The remarks, made Tuesday at the annual ceremony in memory of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, appeared to address a report released Sunday that said “Israel does not meet the criteria of ‘military occupation’ as defined under international law” in the West Bank, and…
Suha Arafat, the widow of Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat, will file a legal complaint regarding her husband’s unexplained death. Suha Arafat will file the suit in a French court; she lives in France and Malta. “Madame Arafat hopes that the authorities will be able to establish the exact circumstances of her husband’s death and…
Israeli entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz will be featured as an environmental pioneer on the CNN series “Going Green.” Abramowitz, 48, is a founder of the Arava Power Company at Kibbutz Ketura, which is home to a 4.95-megawatt, medium-sized photovoltaic field. He made aliyah from the Boston area in 2006; Abramowitz had volunteered on the kibbutz 30…
