Jewish organizations join to urge Supreme Court to review terror-financing case
A number of Jewish organizations have submitted a friend-of-the-court brief this week asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case involving a British bank accused of helping fund Hamas terrorist in activity...
Qatar restarts cash payments to Palestinians in Gaza, using UN credit cards
Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip began receiving payments on Thursday after Israel agreed to a new distribution system that includes the involvement of the United Nations.
Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi said that payments of...
Jewish death-row inmate wins new trial in Texas, citing judge’s anti-Semitic slurs
A Dallas County judge ordered that Jewish death-row inmate Randy Halprin should get a new trial after considering evidence that the judge who presided over his case was biased against Jews.
Halprin, 44, claimed that former Dallas County judge...
Search underway for woman in Brooklyn who set fire in front of yeshivah
Police are searching for an unidentified African-American woman seen on surveillance video pouring gasoline in front of a Jewish school in Brooklyn, N.Y., before setting the liquid on fire. The incident occurred Thursday night...
BDS groups, activists likely behind campaign targeting Google, Amazon to cancel contract with Israel
Anti-Israel BDS groups and activists appear to be behind a purportedly grassroots anonymous letter of hundreds of Google and Amazon employees demanding that the tech giants cancel Project Nimbus, a billion-dollar contract to provide public cloud...
New European-wide survey reveals disturbing findings of anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bias
Europe’s Action and Protection League (APL), in partnership with the European Jewish Association (EJA), released a European-wide survey offering a complex and detailed account of the prevalence of anti-Semitic perceptions, including widespread views in some countries...
‘Anti-Semites have found new ways of attacking Jews,’ declare leaders at Malmö forum
The need to battle anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, especially online, was front and center on Thursday at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism—Remember ReAct event in Sweden.
Representatives from more than...
Lapid concludes US visit, meetings with legislators and Jewish organizational leaders
During the third and final day of his visit to the United States on Thursday, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with an array of lawmakers and Jewish groups, including leaders of member organizations...
ICEJ orders 30 more bomb shelters for Israeli towns on Lebanon border
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem said on Tuesday that it has ordered another 30 new portable bomb shelters for Israeli border communities, which are especially vulnerable to rocket fire from Gaza and Lebanon, with...
Canada will make special envoy on anti-Semitism permanent position
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government will make the special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating anti-Semitism a permanent position and bolster the role with more resources.
Trudeau made the announcement...