(JTA) — Draft resolutions fiercely critical of Israel that were put forth by far-left Democrats in California for the state party’s convention were substantially rewritten by the Resolutions Committee of the California Democratic Party. Four of the rewritten resolutions were passed by the committee on Friday at the party’s state convention in San Francisco, and…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Donald Trump said that Israeli politics are “messed up” and that the country should “get their act together.” He also said that his administration is “not happy” about the turn of events. Trump made the comments on Sunday on the White House lawn before leaving for a visit to the United…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The last living survivor of the Nazi death camp Sobibor has died. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday at a hospital in central Israel at the age of 96. He moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, according to the Jerusalem Post. Sobibor was built and operated by the SS during World War II near the…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch foreign minister defended the right of a diplomat serving in his ministry to call for a boycott of Israel and promote a “one-state solution” of Israelis and Palestinians. Stef Blok offered a defense of Angelique Eijpe on Tuesday in parliament. Eijpe’s anti-Israel activities came up in parliamentary queries after it…
(JTA) — Two museums in the Netherlands have agreed to return two Nazi-looted paintings to the descendants of a Holocaust survivor. The Central Museum in Utrecht will return to the family of Jacob Lierens the painting titled “Pronkstilleven” by Jan Davidsz, which the Jewish collector was forced to sell under duress, the news site jonet.nl…
(JTA) — The speaker of the Lebanese parliament told an anti-Semitic joke during an interview and said Israelis love their land less than the Lebanese because they stay away from the border. Nabih Berri, a leader of the pro-Hezbollah Amal movement, made the racist reference to Jews during an interview with the Al Joumhouria newspaper…
You might think that the biggest news to come out of the 2019 Scripps Spelling Bee would be the historic eight-way tie in which the competition ended. Well, you’d probably be right. But what about the Jewish news? Several of the high caliber words posed to contestants were either Yiddish or Hebrew, joining the many…
In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared measles “eliminated,” putting the disease in the same category as smallpox and polio. That meant that, according to the CDC, there had been an “absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months.” Now, that status is on the verge of being revoked….
Updated 2:00 p.m. Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham listed white supremacist Paul Nehlen as a “prominent voice” in a segment on her show on Thursday. During a segment claiming that liberals are trying to “silence conservative voices” on Facebook ahead of the 2020 election, a graphic listed Nehlen, as well as other far-right figures…
(JTA) — A 50-year-old man was seriously injured along with a 16-year-old student who was moderately wounded in a Jerusalem stabbing attack that ended with the slaying of the Palestinian perpetrator. The incident, which occurred Friday morning in the Old City of Jerusalem, was filmed in its entirety in security cameras. The footage shows 19-year-old…
An Israeli man mocked the Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson with an anti-gay insult when he saw him on the street in Israel. The man, Barak Cohen, who posted a video of the encounter to Facebook, jeered at Adelson from a few feet away as a member of Adelson’s entourage tried to get the man to…
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