The South Sudanese government will send a delegation to Israel this week to coordinate the repatriation of South Sudanese citizens who are illegally in the country. According to a Foreign Ministry source, immigration officials from South Sudan will meet with officials from Israel’s Immigration and Population Authority. On Sunday, a plane will take off for…
The decision-making process was flawed, the discussions were hurried and superficial, the National Security Council was kept in the dark, and scenarios of extreme violence were ignored – these are only some of the harsh criticisms found in the State Comptroller’s report on the government’s handling of the Turkish aid flotilla to Gaza, which took…
A guest tweeter on Sweden’s official Twitter account raised hackles over some racially charged comments about Jews. Sonja Abrahamsson, 27, who identifies herself as an unemployed single mother from a small Swedish town, immediately apologized for the tweets, saying that she did not mean for her questions to be offensive. “I just don’t get why…
The Ruderman Family Foundation announced its ten inaugural Ruderman Prize in Disability winners, for fostering full inclusion of people with disabilities in the Jewish community. The foundation, which initiated the prize this year, received more than 150 applications representing seven countries. The winning organizations receive $20,000. “Awarding the prizes is the genesis of a legacy…
An Israeli army officer was suspended for firing on Palestinians throwing stones at a demonstration. The incident, which occurred June 1 near the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, was caught on film, and showed that the officer used live fire even though it did not appear that his life was in danger….
An Israeli scientist was awarded the prestigious World Food Prize, becoming the first Israeli to receive the award. Dr. Daniel Hillel, who specializes in a new mode of bringing water to crops in arid and dry land known as micro-irrigation, was awarded the prize at the U.S. State Department on Tuesday. The $250,000 award is…
Congressional Democrats and Republicans are joining forces for the first time in an effort to secure Jonathan Pollard’s release. A bipartisan letter is circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives soliciting signatures on a letter to President Obama asking him to commute Pollard’s sentence to time served. The “Dear Colleague” letter is signed by veteran…
The head of the Reform movement in Israel was ejected from a discussion on state funding for non-Orthodox rabbis. Rabbi Gilad Kariv, director of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, was thrown out of Tuesday’s debate in the Knesset Finance Committee for speaking out of turn and using aggressive language, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported….
A photo posted on the Israel Defense Forces website in honor of Pride Month, showing two male soldiers in uniform holding hands, has caused a stir. The photo posted Monday and captioned “It’s Pride Month. Did you know that the IDF treats all of its soldiers equally?” had garnered more than 7,800 likes and more…
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes held a closed-door meeting with members of the Jewish community. Monday’s meeting, reported by the New York media, came a day after Hynes attended a public meeting in the haredi Orthodox community of Crown Heights on preventing child abuse. The meeting was sparsely attended, according to reports. The DA’s office…
Mitt Romney is remembered by some in Massachusetts’ Jewish community as a distant figure on a grassroots level, a governor with whom their main interaction came during the effort to pass a groundbreaking healthcare reform providing near-universal coverage for state residents. Today it’s the very subject that the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president wishes…
