RECIFE, Brazil (JTA) — Preparing to leave this city’s main Jewish community center, Sabrina Scherb peeks beyond its blast-proof gate into a quiet street strewn with branches and shredded mango fruits. The debris, left over from an overnight tropical storm, is not what’s worrying Scherb, a 22-year-old university student and volunteer dance instructor. “I’m looking…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is going into the medical marijuana export business — if its Cabinet agrees. The Knesset has passed legislation that would have Israel join the Netherlands and Canada as nations allowing the legal export of medical cannabis. Among the countries reportedly eager to trade with Israel include Australia, Germany, Austria and Mexico, according…
(JTA) — A memorial to the Jews of a Greek town who were sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis was vandalized. The Memorial to the Jewish Martyrs of Kastoria, in the northern region of West Macedonia, was covered with black spray-paint on Tuesday, the state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported. “In this place, on March 24…
There have been multiple attempted attacks on synagogues since the shooting at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh, the Anti-Defamation League reported Monday — including at least one directly inspired by the Pittsburgh shooter. The ADL’s Center on Extremism has been monitoring the attempted attacks, all of which were thwarted. The organization found four…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Tuesday following cancer surgery, CNN reported. Kathy Arberg, public information officer for the Supreme Court, confirmed in an email to CNN that the 85-year-old jurist was discharged from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and is recovering at home. Ginsburg had two…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may cut his five-day visit to Brazil short over the political developments in Israel. Both Israeli and Brazilian media reported on the possibility of a shortened trip on Tuesday evening, more than a day after the ruling coalition agreed to dissolve the government and go…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rambo the dog visited the president of Israel, who honored him for his role in capturing a Palestinian terrorist. Rambo, a 5-year-old Belgian Shepherd mix, was injured during an operation earlier this month with the Police counter-terrorism unit to capture the Palestinian man suspected of killing two Jewish-Israeli co-workers at a factory…
It’s been unclear for 50 years who drafted the “very strong letter” confirming that President Trump had bone spurs in his heels, allowing him to skirt military service in Vietnam. “You are talking a lot of years,” Trump told The New York Times in 2016, unable to recall the doctor’s name. The answer could be…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Airstrikes near Damascus blamed on Israel targeted an arms depot and hit a weapons storage facility controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the Tuesday night airstrikes, which Russia’s Defense Ministry said endangered two civilian flights landing at the Damascus and Beirut airports. Three Syrian soldiers also were…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was shot and wounded as he attempted to run over with his car Israeli soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus station in the northern West Bank. The Israelis were waiting at the bus stop at a junction just south of Nablus, near a military base, according to the…
(JTA) — A University of Massachusetts student was asked to remove a sign from her dorm window saying “F***| Nazis, you are not welcome” because it did not foster a sense of inclusion. Junior Nicole Parsons said she put up the sign following an incident in which a swastika was scrawled over a Happy Hanukkah sign…
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