Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, one of the leading candidates for New York City comptroller, said Thursday that in light of recent turmoil, she will travel to Israel if elected. “Supporting our longtime friends in Israel is more important today than ever,” Caruso-Cabrera told the Forward. “That’s why the first international trip I will take following my primary…
Eugenia Yuspeh, one of the oldest remaining Holocaust survivors, passed away last month at the age of 97. Nearly a month later, her remains still haven’t made it to her final resting place, and it seems the United States Postal Service is at fault. Traditionally, Jewish burial is encouraged to take place as soon as…
(JTA) — As the body count in hostilities between Israelis and Palestinian rises, so do fears that European Jews will be targeted in a phenomenon that many here call “the import of the conflict.” That’s what happened when Hamas and Israel exchanged blows in 2014, triggering the worst wave of antisemitic violence in Europe since…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Saying that Israel has a right to defend itself, President Joe Biden has sent his top Israeli-Palestinian negotiator to the region in a bid to deescalate the deepening conflict there. During a White House press conference Wednesday afternoon, Biden said he had just spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had…
Click here for live updates from Haaretz on the fighting. The Israeli army claimed on Thursday that it struck more than 600 targets in the Gaza Strip since the start of its military operation, with the health authorities in the coastal enclave reporting 67 Palestinians dead, in the most heated exchanges since 2014. According to…
(JTA) — As the world’s attention has turned to the crisis engulfing Israel and the Palestinian territories, a leading media outlet posted a curious job opening. The New York Times announced Wednesday that it is looking to hire a reporter who will focus on covering Palestinian affairs. The plan for the position probably predates the current…
(JTA) — A video of a crowd of Jewish Israelis beating someone presumed to be an Arab in a Tel Aviv suburb on Wednesday night was broadcast live on Israeli TV as the country erupted in violence between Arabs and Jews. The incident in the coastal city of Bat Yam, caught by a camera operator…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Polish government will give $50,000 to a nationalist organization headed by a student who was suspended from the University of Warsaw partly for hate speech against Jews. Konrad Smuniewski’s Nowy Ład(or Nowy Order) website will receive the grant as part of the government’s annual funds to nongovernmental organizations. In 2016,…
(JTA) — Israeli flags were burned in front of two synagogues in Germany and the words “Free Palestine” were spray-painted on another one in Spain. The incidents this week are among the first manifestations of antisemitism in Europe connected to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which six Israelis and at least 50 Palestinians…
Click here for live updates on the situation from Haaretz. Fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated Wednesday in the most intensive aerial exchanges since the deadly summer-long 2014 war in Gaza. Six Israelis were killed and dozens injured in the intensifying conflict, which included a barrage of some 130 rockets on the Tel Aviv area,…
Andrew Yang, one of the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, faced backlash on Tuesday for a statement he published on Twitter in support of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. “I’m standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists,” Yang…
