WASHINGTON (JTA) — In 2001, when he was out of office and in what he thought was a private setting, Benjamin Netanyahu boasted, “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.” Reelected in 2009, and still serving 12 years later, Netanyahu has moved…
(JTA) — After 12 straight years as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is losing power — and the government that’s about to replace him is remarkable in its own right. Netanyahu’s ouster is a huge deal on its own. Over the past decade-plus, as the country’s longest-serving leader, he has become nearly synonymous with Israel…
Ever dream of just getting away from it all? Shana Frankel, has done just that by starting a farm in rural Georgia, where she lives all by herself. “Yes. I am out there all alone,” said the 28-year-old. “I do have visitors and family who come, but on a day-to-day basis it is just me…
Another day, another hate crime in Los Angeles. After services on Saturday afternoon, around 2 p.m., Israel Munitz, 13, and his brother Isaac, 11, went with their mother to visit their cousins’ home in the city’s Hancock Park neighborhood. Their mother, who was walking ahead of them, had just turned to walk up the driveway…
Not long ago, Robert Cornegy, a member of the New York City Council, was dubbed the tallest politician in the world. As borough president, he said, he can make the world look up to Brooklyn. Cornegy, 55, who played professional basketball in Israel and talks about his strong affinity for the Jewish state, is one…
Florida’s State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the only Democrat holding statewide electoral office, as well as the only Jewish woman ever to win a statewide race, today announced her candidacy to challenge incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fried, 43, a South Florida attorney, acknowledged she has a steep hill to climb, presuming she wins the…
When the Conservative movement censured an upstate New York rabbi in 2019 for a problematic relationship with a woman who had received his rabbinic guidance and attended services, there was no public written record of the offense or the punishment. There was no announcement to the congregation, Temple Beth-El in Poughkeepsie, indicating any problem with…
Two men have now been arrested in connection with what police say was an antisemitic attack on a group of Jewish men in Los Angeles earlier this month. Investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division took Samer Jayylusi into custody on May 25 in the Orange County city of Anaheim, though they say…
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