Shimon Sasson, 84, of Tel Aviv, was 15 when the riots broke out in the port city of Aden. It happened just after November 29, 1947, the date on which the United Nations approved the partition plan for Palestine, paving the way for the founding of the State of Israel. “I heard the report on…
Two Orthodox Jewish landlords pled guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom on Tuesday to destroying apartments in buildings they owned in order to drive out rent-stabilized tenants. The landlords, Joel and Amrom Israel, will pay $348,000 to their former tenants, who prosecutors say came home to find their Brooklyn apartments damaged by the brothers. The brothers…
(JTA) — Stephen Bannon recently called Breitbart News “the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America.” That will not change with Bannon leaving the far-right news website for the White House, according to Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief. Saying he shares a worldview with Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist, Aaron Klein…
Seventy-eight years ago this week, on December 2, 1938, the first Kindertransport left Germany. In the following months over 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved from Nazi-occupied territories, because their parents were willing to separate from them. In England they were placed in foster families, schools and shelters. British authorities agreed to grant visas; private…
Donald Trump’s nominee to run the federal Department of Education could make the dreams of Orthodox Jewish education advocates come true. Betsy DeVos has been in the trenches of the public education wars for years, funding and operating advocacy groups that have worked arm in arm with Orthodox organizations to push a so-called “school choice”…
An Australian billionaire could be the unlikely missing link connecting Israel’s prime minister, Donald Trump’s new pick for Treasury Secretary, and pop superstar Mariah Carey. James Packer, the Sydney-based media mogul, now embroiled in an alleged scandal case involving Prime Minister Netanyahu and his son Yair, was also a business partner of Steven Mnuchin, who…
What did Fidel Castro stand for when it comes to Israel and the Jews? That’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. With the Cuban’s leader’s death November 25, at age 90, his long and controversial career is sure to be reviewed minutely on every issue in the days leading up to his funeral, December 4….
President-elect Donald Trump promised to clean up Washington, D.C. But if his choices in advisers provide any signs of what’s to come, he has no plans to clear out the Goldman Sachs executives who have staffed finance positions from one administration to the next. Steve Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker (among other things), will…
A Jewish security agency warned Jewish organizations that they should call the police if the leftist Jewish group IfNotNow protests outside of their offices today. The Secure Community Network, which operates as an arm of both the Jewish Federations of North American and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, distributed an alert…
More than three decades after his death, United States Army Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds received a posthumous award for his working saving 200 Jewish soldiers from deportation to a Nazi slave labor camp, reported the Times of Israel. Edmonds and almost 1,300 other American GIs were captured at the Battle of Bulge, in the waning…
There are very few people who may honestly be referred to as “national treasures” — someone whose contributions are not to one or another group within our community, but to all of us together: old and young, wise and simple, religiously observant and less so. Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, who died November 20 at the…
