Thursday, April 18th 2024 |
(JNS.org) CUBA — American-Jewish prisoner Alan Gross, who has been held in Cuba since late 2009, said he is ending a hunger strike that he had started to protest his treatment by both the Cuban and American governments.
According to a statement released Friday, Gross told his attorney, Scott Gilbert, that he was ending the strike due to requests by family members and friends concerned about his deteriorating health. But...
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) – When it comes to Ukraine, Israel is parting ways with some of its staunchest American allies, namely neoconservatives — and it’s not the first time.
Israel’s reluctance to side too closely with the United States in its bid to isolate Russia is typical of an Israeli realpolitik that has led to past conflicts with the American neoconservatives, who prize humanitarian interventionism.
But Israel’s stance...
(JTA) — Nazi symbols were drawn on a Holocaust monument in Odessa, Ukraine.
The symbols — swastikas and the SS Wolfsangel sign — were painted Tuesday on the memorial site, police sources from the southern Ukrainian city told the Unian news agency. There are no suspects.
Swastikas were also painted on a wall surrounding a Jewish cemetery reading “death to the Jews” and “Right Sector” — an ultranationalist movement that...
(JTA) – A French mayor from the far-right National Front party evicted from city-owned offices an anti-racism group inspired by the Dreyfus trial.
Steeve Briois, who was elected last month to run the town of Henin-Beaumont, ordered the Human Rights League, or LDH, to clear out of its workspace last week, LDH President Pierre Tartakowsky told JTA.
The LDH, which was established in 1898 to protest the wrongful and racially...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (JTA) — Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation.
Work on the statue began Tuesday in downtown Budapest, according to Klubradio, a news station known to be critical of the government. The protest was held that evening adjacent to the U.S. Embassy building, with protesters carrying signs saying the memorial is...
(JTA) — Electoral advances in Hungary by the ultra-nationalist party Jobbik should be a source of grave concern to Europe, the president of the European Jewish Congress said.
Jobbik won nearly 21 percent of the votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election, up from nearly 16 percent four years ago. It remained the third largest political party in Hungary.
“This is truly a dark day for Hungary,” said EJC President Dr. Moshe...
(JTA) — Bulgaria’s interior minister said he is certain that Hezbollah was behind the deadly 2012 bombing of a tour bus in Burgas.
“All traces lead there,” Tsvetlin Yovchev told journalists Monday, according to the Sofia News Agency. “What can we prove in court is another matter. If you’re asking me if I am certain of this – yes, I am.”
His remarks came several hours after the Bulgarian media...
BERLIN (JTA) — German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt has reached an agreement to restitute any works in a valuable cache discovered last fall that were stolen by the Nazis.
The agreement allows the German government to research the provenance of all the works in his collection. Those deemed not to have been robbed or confiscated from Jewish collectors or museums by the Nazis would be returned to Gurlitt.
According to...
(JTA) — Russian lawmakers approved a bill that would make Holocaust denial illegal.
The lower house of the Russian Parliament, or Duma, passed the measure Friday on its first reading, the Voice of Russia reported Monday, making it illegal to deny the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal and punishing the “rehabilitation of Nazism.”
Those found guilty of the crime could be fined up to $8,300 or imprisoned up to three...
(JTA) — Eva Braun, the wife of Adolf Hitler, may have had Jewish ancestry, according to a new British documentary.
“Dead Famous DNA,” which is scheduled to air Wednesday on Britain’s Channel 4, reported that hair samples from a brush believed to have been used by Braun were tested and show that a DNA sequence found in the sample is “strongly associated” with Ashkenazi Jews. The brush was found at...
