Thursday, April 18th 2024 |
(JTA) — Pink Floyd guitarist Roger Waters said he was still considering whether to call on musicians to boycott Israel.
“I am considering my position,” Waters said in a taped interview published online Monday by The Huffington Post. “The letter asking my fellow musicians to boycott Israel has never appeared. I’m thinking it all through extremely carefully … because I care more about the outcome, because I care about the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli gymnast Alexander Shatilov won a gold medal in the men’s floor exercise final at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow.
Shatilov shared the first-place podium on Saturday with Max Whitlock of Britain.
It was the first gold medal in international competition for Shatilov, 26, who finished sixth in the floor exercise finals at the London Olympics and 12th in the individual all-around final.
Shatilov won...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Israel, where he is scheduled to discuss a major arms deal and the Iran situation with Israeli leaders.
Hagel following his arrival late Sunday morning visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem.
During his visit, Hagel is scheduled to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Forces Chief...
(JTA) — The arrest of a New York teenager for harassing a kippah-clad Jewish man on a subway led to a melee that was shown on YouTube. Stephan Stowe, 17, was charged on eight counts, including aggravated harassment as a hate crime, in the April 15 incident in Brooklyn.
According to a Daily News report three days after the incident, Stowe and a group of friends approached the Jewish man...
(JTA) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may never speak again, according to the expatriate Israeli director of the Boston hospital where Tsarnaev is being treated.
Tsarnaev, 19, was wounded in his throat, Kevin Ilan Tabb of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, told Ynet.
Tabb is a board member of Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where he studied medicine and completed his residency.
“Unfortunately, I have had a...
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Sirens wailed in two Polish cities as the country commemorated the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
The sirens in Gdansk and Warsaw Friday were part of a series of commemorative events in memory of the failed but fierce armed rebellion that Jews led in the Polish capital in 1943 against the Nazi occupation forces.
The main ceremony was held at Warsaw’s...
Gates of Prayer Nursery School will be holding its annual school fair and fundraiser this Sunday, April 21. A brunch will be provided by school administrator Melanie Blitz from 11:00 a.m – 1:00 p.m. as well as a family fun fair that starts at 12 noon and runs until 3:00 p.m.
A raffle for a $1,000 gift card to the Apple Store will be held throughout the event and other...
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Brooklyn woman pleaded guilty to charges that she stole $1 million from a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island.
Ilana Friedman, 51, admitted to grand larceny in Staten Island Supreme Court on Tuesday. Friedman, former director of the United Hebrew Cemetery, stole the money over a six-year period.
Friedman and her husband, Arthur, the cemetery’s former president, agreed to pay $1.1 million in restitution. Arthur Friedman...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress he sees a maximum two-year window to bring about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kerry delivered his remarks Wednesday to a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
Answering a question from Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the senior Democrat on the committee, Kerry said that among both Israeli and Palestinian leaders, “I have found the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An Oklahoma lawmaker apologized for using the term to “Jew down.” Rep. Dennis Johnson, the co-leader of the Republican majority in the state’s House of Representatives, apologized Wednesday after other lawmakers brought to his attention the offensiveness of the term.
Johnson used the term during a debate on whether to end the state’s longtime ban on the “loss-leader” practice, in which a retailer sells an item at...
