Tributes have poured in – from ordinary people all the way up to Italy’s president – to honor Italian Nobel Prize-winner Rita Levi Montalcini on the occasion of her 103rd birthday. Levi Montalcini, who turned 103 years old on Sunday, was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986. She was born…
The U.S. House of Representatives voted down a request to strengthen Iran sanctions in the Small Business Tax Cut Act. The motion to recommit the legislation to the House Ways and Means Committee, which was offered by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), sought to deny tax reductions for businesses that are in violation of the Iran…
Two Palestinian teens were arrested at a West Bank checkpoint after police found they were hiding pipe bombs, a gun and ammunition. The Palestinians, both 17 and residents of the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, were acting suspiciously as they approached the Tapuach Junction on Saturday evening. When asked to stop for a routine inspection…
The Israel Defense Force can take in more ultra-Orthodox soldiers and must finds a way to do so, army chief Benny Gantz told Haaretz in a special Independence Day interview, referring to an expected change in Israel’s enlistment laws after the Supreme Court ruled the existing legislation unconstitutional. When asked about the possible ramifications of…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that he would submit the issue of sanctioning three West Bank outposts to a specially formed panel, despite the fact that he was expected to bring their recognition to the approval of the cabinet. Netanyahu’s comments came after, earlier this month, the premier informed his ministers…
Two stones with inscriptions that may date back to First Temple times are not fakes, according to an Israeli judge and a panel of experts. An Israeli antiquities dealer, Oded Golan, had been accused of faking an inscription on an artifact called the “Jehoash Inscription,” a stone tablet describing renovations of the First Temple in…
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s latest list of the world’s 10 most-wanted Nazi war criminals contains three new names, all with Canadian connections, and the center claims to have new evidence against one of them. The new names names contained in the SWC’s “Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals”…
A survey commissioned by the American Jewish Committee found that Latinos held positive views about Jews, but have had limited contact with them. “Latino opinions are hampered by limited contact and general unfamiliarity with Jews,” according to Latino Decisions, the company that carried out the survey for the AJC. Its conclusion, nonetheless, was that “Latinos…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously against a request by the family of an American allegedly tortured to death while in Palestinian custody to sue under the Torture Victim Protection Act. The family of American citizen Azzam Rahim sought to sue the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization under the 1991 Torture Victim Protection Act…
Vienna is removing the name of a notoriously anti-Semitic mayor from a section of the elegant Ring boulevard that encircles the heart of the city. A city official announced Thursday that the section now known as Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring, will be renamed Universitaetsring (University Ring) in honor of the University located there. Lueger was mayor from…
The Zionist Organization of America sent a letter to the president of Rutgers University, urging him to do more to combat anti-Semitism on the campus. ZOA was responding to an incident in which a Jewish student was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack by a university-funded, student-run satirical newspaper. The ZOA leadership in an April…
