Israel’s elections on Tuesday resulted in what will likely be a fifth term for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – but there were a number of firsts as well. The number of LGBT members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, will rise from two to a record five when parliamentarians are sworn in next month. Amir Ohana…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election night party in Tel Aviv featured a jubilant crowd celebrating his likely reelection – including one person waving a “Make America Great Again” flag. Netanyahu frequently used his friendship with President Trump in his election ads. Shortly before Tuesday’s election, Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights, which…
New York City has been hit with a record case of the measles. The outbreak even led Mayor Bill de Blasio to declare a state of emergency in pockets of Brooklyn where the disease is spreading within ultra-Orthodox communities. Those who refuse to get vaccinated could be fined. The first case of measles was first…
The mayor of the most heavily-Jewish city in Canada is refusing to back down in the face of criticism over his comments about a controversial bill in the Quebec legislature that would ban teachers and other government employees in positions of authority from wearing religious clothing. William Steinberg, the mayor of the Montreal suburb of…
Close to two months after the initial launch, an Israeli spacecraft has gone into the moon’s orbit and will attempt to land on its surface. If it all works well, Israel will have made history in achieving the first moon landing from a private company, Business Insider reported. This would also make Israel the fourth…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on his re-election as Israeli prime minister and said it paved the way for peace in the Middle East. “I’d like to congratulate Bibi Netanyahu,” was the first thing Trump said Wednesday as he approached a gaggle of reporters on the White House lawn. “It looks like…
Senator Bernie Sanders acknowledged that he’s become a millionaire, a status that may contrast with his “man of the people” campaign platform, The New York Times reported. Sanders, who is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years of tax returns by Monday, Tax Day. He had initially been…
An Orthodox anti-vaccine group is circulating a digital pamphlet that quotes two of the most prominent rabbis in the ultra-Orthodox world, the New York Post reported Tuesday. “These aren’t just local no-name rabbis,” one mother who identified herself as Breindy to the Post said, according to the paper. “As soon as I saw those names,…
(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu appears likely to win a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister as right-wing parties have maintained their majority in Israel’s election. With more than 95 percent of the vote counted in Tuesday’s election, Netanyahu’s Likud party and the opposition Blue and White party are virtually tied, with more than one million…
(JTA) — The head of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, told a congressional committee that the New Zealand mosque shooter was a “left-wing” terrorist, basing his assessment on the killer’s discursive 74-page manifesto. Klein testified on Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.” “The…
The number of measles cases nationally may soon set a 21st century record, the Washington Post reported. As of Tuesday morning, the number of measles cases across the country had reached 465, spurred in large part by the ongoing outbreak in the Hasidic communities in Brooklyn and New York’s Rockland County, as well as an…
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