Monthly Archives: May 2019
As elections loom, Bennett and Shaked get set to make a comeback
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition talks come down to the wire, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked met in Tel Aviv to plan out their course should new elections...
Ex-Soviet dissident with Jewish roots elected Latvia’s president
A Soviet dissident with Jewish roots was elected Monday as Latvia’s president.
A majority of 61 lawmakers out of 100 in the Latvian parliament elected Egils Levits, 63, to the post, which is a largely...
Jordanian king to Kushner: Palestinian state only possible on pre-1967 lines
Jordanian King Abdullah told White House senior adviser and presidential son-in law Jared Kushner on Wednesday that a Palestinian state can only be created along the border lines that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War.
“His...
Sara Netanyahu agrees to plea deal in catering affair
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, agreed to a plea bargain on Wednesday in a fraud case against her and will be fined NIS 55,000 ($15,00).
The state prosecution had originally charged her with...
First Orthodox Jew elected to serve in Belgian parliament
BRUSSELS—38-year-old Michael Freilich, former editor-in-chief of Joods Actueel in Antwerp, a Jewish magazine founded by his grandfather Louis Davids, was elected to a seat in the Belgian parliament on Sunday.
Freilich, who ran on the list of...
European rabbis take to the streets in Ulm, Germany
BERLIN—Forty rabbis from all over Europe walked the streets of the German city of Ulm on Tuesday, a couple of days after Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, advised Jews against wearing kipot, or skullcaps, in...
International Fellowship raises $275,000 for moshav that lost homes to fire
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has mobilized to raise more than 1 million shekels (about $275,000) in emergency assistance for residents of moshav Mevo Modi’im, a small agricultural community west of Jerusalem near the...
Negotiations over Israeli government go down to wire as fresh elections loom
Negotiations over forming Israel’s next governing coalition are appearing to go down to the wire as a Wednesday-night deadline and potential elections loom.
“Until midnight tomorrow, the mandate for forming the government is in the...
Duo bring the songs of Calcutta to Jewish Music Week
Unlike many Jews around the world, the 5,000 or so who lived in Calcutta up until India won its independence from Britain in 1947, were part of a tolerant society.
The auspicious situation the Jews...
Médias qataris : plateforme de l’antisémitisme
Le groupe qatari Al-Jazeera Media Network a récemment présenté des excuses pour une vidéo antisémite sur l’Holocauste, mise en ligne sur Facebook et Twitter par le réseau AJ+Arabic. Cette vidéo contestait le nombre de...