A Brooklyn congregation was chosen as one of 40 New York-area organizations to compete for funds to restore their historic buildings. Congregation Beth Elohim is eligible to win up to $250,000 to restore its sanctuary’s stained glass windows as part of the American Express Partners in Preservation program in conjunction with the New York City…
Israel’s military launched a new system this week to monitor information on the Internet, the chief military censor said on Tuesday. Col. Sima Vaknin-Gil said that the new system will monitor visual and textual information on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, on blogs and on traditional news sites. Speaking at the Digit 2012…
The Israel Project named Cathy Bolinger, its chief operating and financial officer, as the interim chief executive officer to replace the retiring Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi. Cathy Bolinger joined The Israel Project in 2005 and has been responsible for its day-to-day operations. In a news release announcing the selection, Israel Project Chairman Len Leader praised Bolinger’s…
A Jewish student government senator at the University of California, San Diego was accused of insensitivity for dressing in Middle Eastern garb at a costume party. The senator, Ashton Cohen, was blasted by Amal Dalmar, a co-chair of the Student Affirmative Action Committee, and Noor El-Annan, a member of the Arab Student Union and Students…
An Argentine soccer club lost points after a penalty was leveled due to anti-Semitic chants made by its fans. The Argentine Football Association Disciplinary Court meted out the penalty to the Chacarita Juniors soccer club after anti-Semitic chants were made by Chacarita´s fans during a March game against Atlanta, a Jewish-backed soccer club. “Chaca is…
Hamas political bureau head Khaled Meshal, who now resides in Qatar, is expected to keep his post after an internal vote by the organization’s leadership later this month. But sources have told Haaretz that Hamas leaders have decided to transfer some of Meshal’s critical areas of authority to the leadership in the Gaza Strip, including…
Jenin District Governor Kadura Musa died on Tuesday night of a heart attack, shortly after armed attackers opened fire on his home. On Tuesday night, a number of assailants took positions outside Musa’s home, before opening fire. The governor’s bodyguards returned fire, and Musa himself came out of his house and fired a number of…
The Obama administration is trying to delay the establishment of a panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. U.S. Middle East envoy David Hale met in Geneva last week with U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay and asked her not to advance…
A university student in Scotland lost his appeal of a racism conviction for insulting a fellow student’s Israeli flag. On Tuesday, a three-judge panel at the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh turned down Paul Donnachie, 19, in a bid to have his conviction overturned. Donnachie had been sentenced last August to 150 hours of community…
President Obama celebrated the “shared struggle” of Jewish identity in proclaiming Jewish Heritage Month for the month of May. In the proclamation issued Tuesday, the president discussed the perseverance of Jewish Americans in overcoming adversity and hostility in order to reach success in America. “Even here, Jewish Americans bore the pains of hardship and hostility;…
Stubbornly high levels of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada show a “sustained undercurrent of anti-Jewish bias” in the country, B’nai Brith Canada said. B’nai Brith Canada’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, released April 30, show there were 1,297 anti-Jewish occurrences in 2011 – a “negligible decrease” of 0.7 percent, or nine cases, from 2010. It was…
