(JTA) — The principal of an Arabic-language public school in New York City was discriminated against, leading to her resignation, a U.S. commission found. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that the New York City Department of Education discriminated against Debbie Almontaser “on account of her race, religion and national origin. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Members of a Jewish nationalist group have written to Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli urging her not to marry her non-Jewish boyfriend, actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egypt canceled the official opening of a restored Cairo synagogue over what it called Jewish “provocative” actions. The formal opening of the 19th century Maimonides Synagogue, which was renovated by the Egyptian government, had been scheduled for Sunday. Read More »
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(JTA) – Two Orthodox Jewish men returning from a New Jersey synagogue after evening services were killed by a falling tree. The accident occurred Saturday night in Teaneck when a large oak tree that could not withstand the force of powerful winds fell, also knocking down power lines. Read More »
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(JTA) — Patented technology developed for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation for indexing and searching its vast archived collection of video testimonies is being auctioned off. Read More »
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(JTA) — Two Maryland lawmakers were attacked in mailed fliers as “bagel brain Jews” for sponsoring tough firearms legislation. The flier attacking Democratic state Sen. Read More »
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BERLIN (JTA) — Holocaust monuments at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland were defaced with spray-painted anti-Semitic slogans. The vandalism at the Plaszow camp outside of Krakow, which read “Juden Raus” and “Hitler Good,” was discovered Saturday — the 67th anniversary of the Nazi liquidation of the Krakow ghetto. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Demonstrators held signs reading “Israel is not Tehran” during a protest against gender-segregated bus lines in Jerusalem. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel arrested a senior Hamas terrorist, responsible for the deaths of over 70 Israelis. In a joint IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police operation, Maher U’dda was arrested late Saturday night in Ramallah, according to a statement from the IDF spokesman. U’dda, 47, has been wanted in Israel for over a decade. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel’s prime minister called on the public to “not get carried away,” following harsh words from the U.S. secretary of state over plans to build new housing in eastern Jerusalem. “We look at this morning’s newspapers and read all kinds of comments and analyses. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – An Israeli army closure of the West Bank has been extended, as the Palestinian leadership called for Muslims to gather at the Temple Mount. Israel sealed off the West Bank on Thursday night at midnight for fear of Arab rioting. The closure was set to be lifted on Saturday night but was extended Saturday until at least Tuesday. Read More »
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Republican leader, a Democratic Jewish congresswoman and the ADL pushed back against the Obama administration’s continuing rebukes of Israel for its settlement announcement last week. U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev. Read More »
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Austrian politics is roiling over the question of whether the lone challenger to Austria’s president in the upcoming election is a Nazi sympathizer. Read More »
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Israel will open a new embassy in New Zealand next month amid signs of warming relations between Wellington and Jerusalem. Read More »
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(JTA) — An Iranian Jewish family was arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport after trying to smuggle more than 30 pounds of opium into Israel. Israeli police seized the drugs from several food storage cans in the family’s luggage on Wednesday evening, the Jerusalem Post reported. Israeli police said it was the largest batch of opium seized in years. Read More »
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(JTA) — Israel has sealed off the West Bank for 48 hours for fear of Arab rioting. The closure, which began Thursday night and will last until Saturday, will prevent men under 50 from attending Friday prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In recent weeks, there have been clashes following Friday prayers in Jerusalem and elsewhere. Read More »
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BERLIN (JTA) – Austrian politics is roiling over the question of whether the lone challenger to Austria’s president in the upcoming election is a Nazi sympathizer. Read More »
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SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — Israel will open a new embassy in New Zealand next month amid signs of warming relations between Wellington and Jerusalem. Read More »
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s announcement of new housing starts during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit was a “disaster,” Abraham Foxman said in a rare rebuke. “Whatever the motivation and whoever the responsible party, it is the government of Israel that justifiably is held accountable for converting an optimal moment in U.S. Read More »
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference. Clinton will speak on the second day of the conference, which is set for March 21-23 in Washington. Read More »
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Supporters of 11 university students arrested for disrupting a campus speech expressed concern about “Zionist influence” on the disciplinary process. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The European Parliament called for the immediate release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The resolution passed the European Union body Thursday by a majority vote. The Parliament members signed a letter demanding that Shalit be released and protesting against Hamas’ government in the Gaza Strip, according to Haaretz. Read More »
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers were charged with inappropriate conduct during the Gaza war. The Israel Defense Forces prosecution filed an indictment Thursday alleging that the two combat soldiers used a 9-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield by forcing him to open bags that were suspected of containing explosives. Read More »
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. vice president, toured and praised a New Israel Fund-backed program that the philanthropy says would be endangered by a proposed Israeli law. Biden is accompanying her husband to Israel, where he delivered a speech Thursday extolling close U.S. Read More »
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TULSA, Okla. (JTA) — The warmth emanating from the conference room of the Conti Hotel in Vilnius stood in stark contrast to the damp weather outside. Read More »
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report cited Palestinian incitement and Israel’s denial of some basic Palestinian needs as ongoing problems in the region. Much of this year’s lengthy report dealing with “Israel and the occupied territories” was devoted to last year’s Gaza war and its aftermath. Read More »
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Breaking down the Biden speech By Ron Kampeas · March 11, 2010 Photos 1 out of 1 Other Media U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is joined by his wife, Jill, as he lays a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (The Jewish Agency for Israel) WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Read More »
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Brandeis University’s Muslim chaplain issued an appeal for the return of his Koran days after his campus office was vandalized. Talal Eid said the volume contained two years worth of sermon notes and that its theft is “what keeps me upset,” the Daily News Tribune reported. Read More »
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(JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed its 30 millionth visitor this week. Estelle Laughlin, a Holocaust survivor and museum volunteer, reflected on the milestone in a video posted on the museum’s Web site. “The museum to me represents the conscience of our nation. It represents the conscience of humanity,” she said. Read More »
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(JTA) — A Swedish court ruled that the man accused of organizing the theft of the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz can be extradited to Poland. Anders Hogstrom, a former Swedish neo-Nazi, can be handed over to Polish authorities, the court ruled Thursday. Read More »
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