New York Jewish Day School launches Investigation Of Alleged Sex Abuse In The 1970s
A liberal Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City has launched an investigation after a former assistant principal was accused of sexually abusing a student in the 1970s.
Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy in the...
Birthright Israel expands its age eligibility with program for 27-32 year olds
Young people who thought they’d missed their chance at a Birthright Israel experience are getting a second kick at the can.
Canada-Israel Experience (CIE), which organizes Brithright Israel trips from Canada, announced last December that...
Austrian far-right minister says he wants to ‘concentrate’ migrants
Austria’s new far-right interior minister sparked an outcry Thursday by saying that his government wants to “concentrate” asylum-seekers, employing a word widely associated with Nazi camps.
Herbert Kickl told a news conference he wants “basic...
Abe to pay tribute to Japan’s Schindler in Lithuania
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will pay tribute to Chiune Sugihara on Sunday when he visits the two-storey building that housed the consulate where he worked in the Baltic state’s second city Kaunas.
Sugihara is thought...
Puerto Rico newspaper apologizes for antisemitic column
El Nuevo Dia newspaper in Puerto Rico has apologized for a column that speculated about the Jewish power over the island’s future.
On Monday, the Spanish-language news outlet published an op-ed by Wilda Rodriguez, titled “What...
Officials: Iran nuclear deal survives, Trump will waive sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday will extend waivers on Iran nuclear sanctions, keeping alive the landmark 2015 deal for at least another several months despite his past vows to scuttle the...
French publisher shelves reprint of Celine’s anti-Semitic texts
France's most famed publishing house bowed to pressure Thursday and suspended plans to reissue a collection of violently anti-Semitic pamphlets by novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine.
Gallimard sparked an outcry last week when it revealed it intended...
Holocaust denier sings anti-Semitic songs to Jewish melodies, court told
Alison Chabloz used familiar Jewish melodies, such as Hava Nagila and Heivenu Shalom Aleichem, for her anti-Jewish and anti-Israel lyrics, a court heard on Wednesday.
The blogger and singer, who denies three charges of sending...
Delegitimizing Israel soon to be illegal in South Carolina
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster called upon his state senate Wednesday to pass a bill that would make South Carolina the first state to codify a universal definition of antisemitism.
That definition would be taken...
Tunisia arrests 237 in clashes with protests as Jewish school gets attacked
Tunisian police arrested 237 people, including two Islamists, for attacking police stations and government buildings and for vandalism in anti-government protests, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, as a Jewish school was attacked.
Demonstrations broke...