The regimes in Jordan and Persian Gulf countries are at risk of falling, former Israeli IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned. “Few foresaw what would happen to Mubarak,” Ashkenazi said Wednesday in a speech at the 2012 Israeli Presidential Conference, referring to deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who reportedly suffered a crippling stroke Tuesday…
Doctors reportedly have put former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak on life support as turmoil once again threatens to sweep the country. Mubarak, 84, has been ailing since early 2011, when he was ousted by the army after mass protests. The worsening of his condition on Tuesday, reported by various media citing unnamed military officials, comes…
Britain’s Chief Rabbi has reportedly announced his opposition to gay marriage. Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks made the pronouncement in a submission to the British Home Office, the jc.org web site reported. It came a month after Out4marriage, a gay rights campaign, began pressuring all members of the House of Lords to proclaim their stance…
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton grimly summed up the third round of nuclear talks with Iran, saying at a press conference in Moscow that the gaps between the Islamic Republic and the six Western powers remain significant and fundamental. “The choice is Iran’s,” Ashton said. “We expect Iran to decide whether it…
Henry Kissinger, upon receiving Israel’s presidential award from Israeli President Shimon Peres, said the moment of truth on the Iran question will be in the months ahead. “The question is at what point one concludes that negotiations have reached their limit? It is not a question that should be answered unilaterally,” the former U.S. secretary…
U.S. House candidate Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher was criticized by the National Jewish Democratic Council for comments that blamed gun control for the Holocaust. In a video released by the Ohio campaign, Wurzelbacher claimed that implementation of gun control prevented Europe’s Jews from fighting back against the Nazis. “In 1939, Germany established gun control….
Hebrew National boasts of “answering to a higher authority,” but several class-action lawyers are hoping to take one of the country’s largest kosher meat producers to an earthly court. A class-action lawsuit filed recently alleges that Hebrew National’s iconic hot dogs and other meats do not comport with the brand’s claim to be kosher “as…
Some 2,000 Brazilian Jews and non-Jews protested Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presence at Rio + 20, the United Nations summit on sustainable development. Jews, gays, Afro-Latin Americans and human right activists rallied Sunday at the upscale Ipanema seafront to protest Ahmadinejad’s visit. Backed by intense drumming by the cultural group AfroReggae, marchers carried signs and…
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, have given $6 million in grants to three Boston Jewish institutions. The gifts from the Adelson Family Foundation were awarded to Hebrew SeniorLife, Gateways: Access to Jewish Education and Chelsea Jewish Foundation. Hebrew SeniorLife will receive $3 million as part of its $100 million campaign…
Elie Wiesel has returned Hungary’s highest honor over the country’s honoring of a Nazi sympathizer who has been called a fascist. The Nobel Peace Prize winner repudiated the Order of Merit, Grand Cross in a letter addressed to the speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, Laszlo Kover, and published in the Hungarian weekly Magyar Narancs. Wiesel,…
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, said it has sold its New York headquarters for $71.5 million. The sale of the Midtown Manhattan building was approved by Hadassah’s board of directors on May 1, and a contract was signed a month later. The organization’s members will be asked to approve the sale at a…
