Peter Madoff, the younger brother of jailed Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff, has been taken into custody by the FBI. Peter Madoff, 66, surrendered himself Friday morning at his lawyer’s office in midtown Manhattan ahead of an expected guilty plea to criminal charges related to the Ponzi scheme, according to the Wall Street Journal. He…
A federal appeals court said that Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk’s U.S. citizenship cannot be posthumously restored. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled Thursday that his death made the case moot. Demjanjuk died in southern Germany on March 17 at the age of 91. Restoration of his citizenship would have enabled his…
Fear of war looms this summer, as it has most summers since the Second Lebanon War ended in August 2006. This is partly due to Israel’s approaching decision on whether to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. Another reason is the ongoing political upheaval in the region. Egypt and Syria are busy with internal affairs, which have…
Forcing Israeli Arabs to do mandatory national service, which is being debated in the Knesset, is “a declaration of war” an Arab Knesset member has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We shall strongly resist. [Arab] youth will not obey mandatory national service,” Balad Knesset member Jamal Zahalka told Netanyahu, according to Ynet. “The attempt to…
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Israel deputy prime minister Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, but a leading Palestinian negotiator said that should not be seen as a renewal of stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. ?I do not know what Mofaz will bring with him, but it is not going to be…
Great Britain?s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will not join the growing international campaign for a moment of silence at the upcoming London Summer Olympics for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Games. ?The decision as to whether a minute?s silence is held during the Games lies with the…
U.S. warnings of the possibility of a military strike against Iran are void, and only meant to undermine the stability of other nations, a senior Iranian official told the state-run television outlet Press TV. The comment by Iran?s parliamentary speaker came as diplomatic efforts to solve the decade-long stand-off altered at a round of talks…
A Holocaust memorial plan in Belgium is splitting the divide between the country?s Flemish and Francophone Jewish leaders. Jewish leaders from Flanders have asked Antwerp Mayor Patrick Janssens to refrain from placing memorial cobblestones across the city. The cobblestones were to be set opposite homes of Holocaust victims, each bearing a victim?s name. ?Cobblestones are…
Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he would only support a law over IDF enlistment and national service if it applies to every Israeli citizen, including Israel?s Arab population and the ultra-Orthodox. ??I will not bring a law to a vote which does not also require equal enlistment for the Ultra-Orthodox and Arabs,?…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Latvia to resolve issues related to restitution of Jewish property. On a visit to the Baltic nation, Clinton said that the U.S. supports restitution or compensation for those whose property was seized by the Nazis or communists. She also acknowledged the Lithuanian government?s attempts to address the…
A leader of Hungary?s anti-Semitic Jobbik party confessed to having Jewish origins, but Jewish leaders reacted to his statement dismissively. ?I learned not long ago that I had parents of Jewish origins,? Csanad Szegedi, a member of the European parliament and regional leader of Jobbik, said in an interview with the daily Barikad. Members of…
