(JTA) — When Ahed Tamimi left an Israeli prison on Sunday after eight months, she returned home to jubilation from friends and family in her West Bank hometown of Nabi Saleh. The 17-year-old Palestinian activist also was celebrated as a hero around...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 180 Israeli artists, authors and intellectuals signed a public letter calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of Knesset to cancel the Nationality Law and amend the Surrogacy Law, to allow gay couples to have...
(JTA) — A councilwoman for the Scottish Labour Party accused three British Jewish newspapers of working on behalf of the Mossad after they posted a joint front page article warning that anti-Semitism had eroded the Labour party and posed an “existential”...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab-Israeli lawmaker resigned from Knesset in protest of the nation-state law.Zouheir Bahloul of the Zionist Union announced his resignation on Saturday during a live appearance on Israel’s “Meet the Press” television show.“The...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Palestinian teens from the West Bank entered Israel carrying home-made machine guns.The teens, from Nablus, were found by a Border Police foot patrol in the Seam Zone, between the Green Line and Israel’s security barrier, outside...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Navy intercepted a ship in the latest Gaza Freedom Flotilla attempting to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.The motor vessel, named Al Awda, or The Return, was contacted Sunday afternoon by Israel’s Navy about...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Gazan Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed during clashes at the Israel-Gaza border.Some 7,000 Palestinians gathered in several spots along the border and participated in riots including throwing rocks and burning...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published July 29, 2018
Noga Sachs stands before a group of Republicans in a private room at a Golden Corral buffet restaurant in St. Charles and keeps repeating different versions of the same two words: select and elect. “Right now, the Missouri GOP is selecting the candidate...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, left, and Roseanne Barr in conversation at Stand Up NY in Manhattan, July 26, 2018. (James Devaney/Getty Images)NEW YORK (JTA) — Roseanne Barr still doesn’t think the tweet that got her TV show canceled is racist.On Thursday...
A Palestinian man walks by Israeli troops standing guard in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 13, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)(JTA) – When Samuel Green talks about Israel’s West bank security barrier with the Birthright groups he guides, he...
The main quadrangle of Stanford University. (Wikimedia Commons)(JTA) — Three Jewish organizations called on Stanford University to take action against a student who threatened to “physically fight Zionists” on campus in response to a recent law...
(JTA) — Israel said it will build hundreds of new homes in a settlement where a Palestinian teenager killed an Israeli and wounded two others in a knife attack Thursday.Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman took to Twitter Friday to announce 400 new housing...
