(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with lawmakers from the minority Druze community who objected to a controversial law declaring Israel the nation state of the Jewish people.The meeting Thursday came after Druze leaders,...
Vice President Mike Pence speaking during the first-ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., July 26, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence cited attacks...
Shashi Naidoo at a news conference organized by the BDS movement, June 20, 2018. (Screenshot from YouTube)(JTA) — It’s been a dizzying few weeks for South African model and actress Shashi Naidoo, who transformed herself from a harsh critic of the...
Jay Williams playing for Duke in a game against Maryland in the 2001 NCAA tournament. (Brian Bahr/ALLSPORT/Getty Images)(JTA) — Jay Williams wants you to know he stills go hard. These days, though, he doesn’t ball in the NBA — he plays in “Jewish...
(JTA) — An international team of archaeologists has unearthed the bimah of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, a 17th-century building that was destroyed by the Nazis and Soviets during World War II.Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius told the AFP news agency...
By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 26, 2018
Some 45 attendees streamed into Jerusalem from across the country for the event July 5, making treks from Rehovot, in the central part of the country; Beit Shemesh, a suburb about 45 minutes outside Jerusalem, and the Samarian communities of Neve Tzuf...
The brave members of the Israel Defense Forces who rescued the besieged White Helmets of Syria rank with Israeli soldiers in numerous previous acts of valor by Israel’s armed forces. These include the fledgling IDF of Israel’s War of Independence,...
On July 19, the Israeli Nation-State bill passed as a basic law in Israel. The law establishes constitutional-level protections for the Jewish people and its culture in Israel, defining what it means to be a Jewish State. The Nation-State law is intended...
(JTA) — Romania’s agricultural minister compared the incinerating of pigs affected with swine fever to what happened at Auschwitz.Petre Daea apologized Thursday in an attempt to clarify the remarks he had made two days earlier in a televised interview,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel struck the rocket launcher in Syria used to shoot two rockets at Israel that landed in the Sea of Galilee.The area near the launcher also was targeted with artillery equipment on Wednesday night. according to the IDF.The destroyed...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nine rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel following border battles that left an Israeli soldier injured and three Palestinian members of Hamas dead.One of the rockets fired on Thursday morning was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile...
(Twitter)(JTA) — It was an image ripe for parody.A group of exuberant, slightly disheveled right-wing Knesset members, with a natty and grim-faced Benjamin Netanyahu at the center, posed for a selfie taken by a grinning Oren Hazan, a parliamentarian...
