(JTA) — Fans of the British soccer team the Tottenham Spurs were targeted in an apparent anti-Semitic attack at a pub in Lyon, France. A mob of about 50 entered the Smoking Dog on Wednesday night making a Nazi salute before...
SYDNEY (JTA) – The head of a suburban Sydney day school denied allegations that he was aware of child sexual abuse taking place at the institution decades ago and failed to report it to authorities.
(JTA) — Director and activist Michael Moore intervened to help Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat enter the United States to attend the Academy Awards ceremony.
Burnat, co-director of the film “5 Broken Cameras,” which is nominated for best documentary, was detained...
(JTA) — Romanian police reportedly detained two Israel medical professionals suspected of illegally harvesting eggs from local women. Dr. Rapahel Ron-El, a fertility specialist and director of the in vitro fertilization unit at Assaf Harofeh Hospital in central Israel, and Daphna...
(JTA) — A U.S. congressional delegation is in Cuba to press for the release of imprisoned American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross. Seven lawmakers led by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) arrived in Cuba on Monday for a three-day visit, according to Reuters.
(JTA) — Alan Dershowitz wrote in a letter to the editor of the Miami Herald that one of the leading candidates to replace Pope Benedict XVI is an anti-Semite. Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and Israel activist, was responding to a...
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — The Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party questioned the country marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, calling it “unacceptable.”
In the Greek Parliament last week, Golden Dawn lawmaker Ioannis Lagos asked the Education and Interior ministers why state...
(JTA) — More than 100 members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the European Union’s foreign policy chief urging her to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The bipartisan letter was sent Monday to Catherine Ashton, the High Representative...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The European Union said Israel must improve conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. EU foreign policy head Catherine Ashton also expressed concern over four Palestinian inmates who have been on a long-term hunger strike.
The Iranians are getting ever closer to developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jewish American leaders on Monday in Jerusalem. “I drew a line at the UN last time I was there,” Netanyahu...
