Thursday, April 18th 2024 |
The Greater New Orleans Chapter of Hadassh will be host an event intended to raise consciousness about the leading cause of death among women, heart disease. A heart-healthy brunch titled “Every Beat Counts” will be held today at the Jefferson Orleans South ballroom, 2536 Edenborn in Metairie from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
This is part of an ongoing national Hadassah program intended to raise awareness in women.
A panel...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The leader of the Reform movement asked his Presbyterian counterparts to join him in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make their case against Israeli practices in the West Bank.
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, spoke Thursday in Detroit at the biennial general assembly of the Presbyterian Church-USA, which is considering a proposal to divest from companies that...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) — Dozens of young rabbis serving in Europe gathered at an Amsterdam Holocaust monument to protest the abduction of three Israeli youths.
The demonstrators, members of the Young Rabbis Forum of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, gathered on Wednesday at the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater turned commemoration site. The Nazis used the site as a central dispatch point for sending Jews to death camps shortly...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli troops detained 30 Palestinian suspects overnight as it continued to search for the kidnapped Israeli teens.
The military and security forces searched 100 locations Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, including 10 operations against Hamas’ Dawa institutions, which provide support for civilians and through which Hamas recruits operatives, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Some 280 Palestinians have been arrested since the teens were kidnapped don...
(JTA) — A Jewish cemetery and Holocaust monument were damaged in Germany amid a string of unrelated acts of vandalism against Jewish heritage sites in central Europe.
The incident in Germany occurred over the weekend at the Jewish cemetery of Jamlitz, a town situated 55 miles south of Berlin, according to a report posted Monday on the website of the police department of the German state of Brandenburg.
At the...
(JTA) — Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, an activist against Hasidic child sex abusers, refused to accept an apology from the man who threw bleach in his face.
Rosenberg told New York state Supreme Court Judge Joseph Gubbay that he would not accept the apology from Meilech Schnitzler, the son of an accused Hasidic abuser.
“You didn’t harm me. You harmed all the children I represent,” Rosenberg said to Schnitzler, the New...
By BEN SALES
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Since the three teenagers were abducted last week, Israel’s goals have been simple: Find them and punish their kidnappers.
Realizing those goals, though, is far from a simple task.
The international community has condemned the kidnappings, and Israel has spread its forces across the West Bank to search for the teens. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to stop at nothing to...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli troops arrested 65 Palestinians overnight, including 51 who were released in the Gilad Shalit deal with Hamas in 2011.
Since the beginning of the search for the three kidnapped Israeli teens, some 240 Palestinians have been arrested, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement issued Wednesday, including 180 Hamas activists. Some 800 homes and buildings have been searched, according to the IDF.
Some 1,027 Palestinians...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi continued to assert that the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers are not terrorists, amid calls for her dismissal from the Knesset.
“I don’t agree with the kidnapping, but I can’t say it was an act of terror,” Zoabi told Army Radio Wednesday.
The Balad party lawmaker said that if the kidnappers killed the teens, then it could be considered terror.
“Murder is terrorism,”...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Air Force bombed four terror sites in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel.
The airstrikes late Monday night hit a terror activity site in the southern Gaza Strip, a weapon manufacturing facility in the northern Gaza Strip, and weapon storage facilities in central and southern Gaza, the Israeli military said.
The rockets from Gaza on Ashkelon earlier that...
