Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said chances that Iran will give in to pressure to stop its suspected nuclear program are low, and that the dangers of a nuclear Iran outweigh the dangers of action to stop it. Barak told an audience at Air Force House in Herzliya on Thursday, Israel’s Independence Day, that a…
Madeleine Albright, Bob Dylan, Shimon Peres and Jan Karski will be among 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The list was released Thursday. President Obama had previously announced that he was set to confer the medal on Peres, the Israeli president, and Karski, the late Polish resistance fighter who was among the first…
A Baltimore judge denied an alleged victim’s request to drop criminal charges against two Baltimore Jewish brothers accused of beating the black teen. “I been wanting to drop the charges all the time, I didn’t even want to go through [this],” Corey Ausby said on the stand Wednesday, according to the Baltimore Sun. “I feel…
For the first time since the end of World War II, Germany will officially publish Adolf Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf.” The state of Bavaria, which owns the copyrights to the anti-Semitic work, reached the decision to publish the work. The publication of an annotated edition of the work, complete with an explanation to readers of…
Longtime Syracuse University assistant coach Bernie Fine, who was fired in November amid allegations of sexual molestation, was hired as a consultant for an Israeli pro basketball team. Maccabi Bazan Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Super League announced his hiring on Thursday. The team said it will include Fine on player personnel decisions, as well…
Israel Police prohibited members of a left-wing NGO from exiting a Tel Aviv building on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, activists said, claiming that the lockdown was meant to prevent them from distributing postcards concerning the displacement of Palestinians during the War of Independence in 1948. According to the report, members of Zochrot –…
Two-term former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, has always made a point of using the city’s public transport to get around Britain’s capital. On Tuesday morning, he took the elevator from the platform of Belsize Park Underground station up to street-level. For a couple of seconds, it seemed to stop in mid-ascent. “Maybe we’ll get stuck”…
A black Jewish woman is suing the Phoenix school where she formerly served as principal for failing to respond to complaints about a fake gas chamber set up outside her office and then firing her. Millicent McNeil, who was fired from the Mission Charter School last May 13, filed a $2 million lawsuit in Maricopa…
Preventing Iran from becoming preeminent in its region should guide all U.S. foreign policy, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said. Rubio, delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution on Washington – a foreign policy testing ground for aspirants to the presidency or the vice presidency – said negotiations and pressure short of force were the preferred…
Israeli President Shimon Peres offered a warning to Israel’s enemies on the occasion of Israeli Independence Day. “To those who are now threatening Israel I say: Don’t repeat the mistakes of your predecessors,” Peres said in a speech at an annual ceremony bestowing honors on 120 soldiers for Yom Ha’atzmaut. “You threaten out of a…
Celebrations of 64 years of Israeli independence kicked off on Wednesday night with the lighting of beacons at the official ceremony at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, which also marks the conclusion of Memorial Day. The official ceremony was marred by the fateful accident at the site last week, in which 20-year-old Israel Defense…
