(JTA) — The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to hold a special meeting on the spate of violence in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.The meeting, which diplomats told Reuters was called at the request of council member Jordan, is to...
Buzz Aldrin arriving at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan. 17, 2014. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images)JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis seeking an escape from this week’s daily terror attacks couldn’t fly to the moon, but they had a chance...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yona Metzger, a former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, was indicted for corruption.In the indictment filed Tuesday by the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, Metzger was charged with fraud, theft, conspiracy, breach of trust,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Palestinians from eastern Jerusalem who were arrested following a Tel Aviv manhunt were released after an interrogation.Main roads in Tel Aviv were closed for an hour on Thursday morning during a police chase that included helicopters....
Sarah Silverman at the “An Evening With Women” benefit at the Palladium in Los Angeles, May 16, 2015Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman is known for her in-your-face R-rated sense of humor about sex, religion and current events.So her very personal essay...
With his clean-shaven face and hip clothing, it’s easy to forget that Matisyahu was a Hasidic icon before he was just a Jewish one.But on a segment of HuffPost Live on Tuesday, the Jewish reggae singer called leaving the Hasidic community “one of...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The main organization representing Dutch Jews expressed “grave concern” over the housing of Syrians and Iraqis at a refugee center in a heavily Jewish suburb of Amsterdam.The Central Jewish Board, or CJO, an umbrella of religious...
(JTA) — A Palestinian man stabbed a 70-year-old woman at Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station before being shot to death by police.After attacking the woman on Jaffa Street on Wednesday, the assailant tried to board a bus outside the station, the Times...
(JTA) — The BBC’s director of television, Danny Cohen, is leaving the corporation.Cohen, 40, who spent eight years at the British Broadcasting Corp. and had been director of television since 2013, said he is considering new positions in the United...
(JTA) — Officials in Lisbon approved the naturalization of a Panamanian national who applied for a Portuguese passport under recent legislation benefiting descendants of Sephardic Jews.Alfonso Paredes is the first applicant to obtain Portuguese...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to implement new measures to bring quiet to Israeli cities amid a wave of terror attacks.“Israel will come to settle accounts with the murderers and those who want to kill, and anyone...
(JTA) — South Africa’s ruling party urged the country’s citizens not to visit Israel unless they are in solidarity with the “Palestinian struggle.”While similar calls have been made by African National Congress party ministers in the past,...
