Wednesday, May 1st 2024 |
(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...
NEW YORK (JTA) — A student senate at the University of California, Berkeley narrowly passed a measure calling on the school to divest from three companies with dealings in the West Bank.
Following 10 hours of sometimes heated debate, the Associated Students of the University of California senate early Wednesday morning passed the resolution in an 11-9 vote, the student newspaper, the Daily Californian, reported.
The resolution calls on the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five residents of eastern Jerusalem were charged with planning a shooting attack on the Temple Mount.
The Palestinian men, aged 20 to 25, were charged Wednesday with attempted kidnapping, attempted murder, aiding the enemy at a time of war, contact with a foreign agent and weapons charges, according to Ynet.
The indictment filed in Jerusalem District Court said the men planned to kill Jewish worshipers at the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli college opened a journalism institute named for slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The Daniel Pearl International Journalism Institute, part of the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, was launched Wednesday.
Pearl’s father, Judah, and Daniel’s widow, Mariane, participated in the opening ceremonies.
One of the institute’s goals is to promote balanced reporting from the Middle East, according to reports....
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Natan Sharansky said the implementation of his plan to expand the non-Orthodox prayer site at the Western Wall could begin in as little as one month.
In an interview Thursday with JTA, Sharansky sounded cautiously optimistic about his proposal to create an egalitarian space equal in size to the current men’s and women’s sections combined.
The Jewish Agency for Israel chairman was charged last...
