JERUSALEM (JTA) — One person was killed and two seriously injured after a rocket fired from Gaza landed on an apartment building, as southern Israel remained under rocket siege for a second day. The rocket hit the upper floors of a four-story apartment in Ashkelon shortly before midnight on Monday night. The body and one…
Palestinian militants on Monday carried out their most intensive shelling of Israel since the 2014 Gaza war in retaliation for a botched cross-border commando raid, killing an Israeli civilian and drawing Israeli air strikes against Hamas’ television station and other targets. The flare-up, in which three Palestinian gunmen and a civilian in Israel were killed,…
Rabbi Barry Diamond wasn’t about to let California’s raging fires get in the way of welcoming Shabbat with his congregants. Despite receiving an evacuation notice, Diamond and Cantor David Shukiar of Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks continued with their planned virtual service, streamed on Facebook Live, according to a Facebook post. “We hope that…
Rep. Jerry Nadler said Sunday that the House Judiciary Committee doesn’t plan to investigate or impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, The Hill reported. Nadler, the top Democrat on the committee and the person likely to chair it when the new Congress arrives in January, addressed claims brought up in a story by The Federalist,…
Rep. Adam Schiff vowed on Sunday that he would hold acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker accountable, should he derail special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, The Hill reported. Schiff added in the interview on NBC that there are “very strong” facts proving that Whitaker shouldn’t even be overseeing the probe. “This is someone who’s made repeated…
The boys in a Wisconsin high school class appear to have posed in a Nazi salute in a junior prom photo, the Baraboo News Republic reported. The boys of the Baraboo High School Class of 2019, about 50 people, huddled together on the steps Sauk County Courthouse, where many held up their arms in a…
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker would use intimidation tactics in his former job, letting angry investors know that the company has a security team trained in Krav Maga, Vanity Fair reported. Whitaker, who was appointed attorney general by President Trump this week after firing Jeff Sessions, worked in 2014 on the advisory board of World…
(JTA) — Miriam Adelson, the wife of billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, has been named one of seven recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The recipients were announced on Friday, and are the first to be honored by President Donald Trump. The announcement called Miriam Adelson “a committed doctor, philanthropist and humanitarian” who has…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) – Jewish institutions in Argentina have launched a campaign against British singer Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd frontman. Waters’ Us +Them tour has been traveling around Latin America for the last month. Waters participated in an event of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel in Buenos Aires on Friday,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier was killed and another injured during the Israel Defense Forces special forces operation deep inside the Gaza Strip. The operation was exposed on Sunday night leading to clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters in Gaza, and the firing of 17 rockets from Gaza on southern Israel. Three of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least six Palestinians were killed during an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters in Gaza. One of the dead Palestinians was identified as Nur Barake, a deputy commander of an elite unit of Iz al-Din al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas. A second Hamas commander was said killed…
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