Wednesday, May 1st 2024 |
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tel Aviv Marathon was postponed for one week because of expected oppressive heat in Israel. The Tel Aviv municipality announced Tuesday that the full 26-mile marathon scheduled for Friday would be postponed because of the expected extreme high heat and in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Health.
Other races, including a half-marathon and a fun run, as well as marathon festivities, will go...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Likud party, citing what it called “excessive demands” from Yesh Atid, threatened to launch government coalition negotiations with the haredi Orthodox parties.
The impasse with the Yesh Atid party prevented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from introducing his new government on Wednesday, as he had planned.
With Netanyahu having four days left to form a government, Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid reportedly has backtracked on agreements that...
ASHINGTON (JTA) – Eighty-nine members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter calling on Turkey’s prime minister to retract his comments blasting Zionism.
The lawmakers, representing both houses of Congress and both political parties, sent the one-page letter to Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday to express “our grave disappointment with the statement you made at the United Nations-sponsored conference in Vienna last month equating Zionism — the foundation of the Jewish...
(JTA) – Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinian cardinal who was elected pope late Wednesday and will take the name Francis I, is said to have a good relationship with Argentinian Jews.
Bergoglio, 76, a Jesuit, was the choice of the College of Cardinals following two days of voting in Vatican City. He is the first pope to come from outside Europe in more than a millennium; reflecting the changing demographics...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — American Jews held solidarity rallies in several U.S. cities to protest Israeli limitations on women’s prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
On Monday, some 125 demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and additional demonstrations were held Tuesday in New York and Cleveland. San Francisco supporters were planning a rally for March 19.
The rallies were timed to Rosh Chodesh, the beginning of the new Hebrew month,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli military helicopter crashed during a routine training flight, killing two crew members.
Lt. Col. Noam Ron, 49, of Oranit, and Maj. Erez Flekser, 31, of Haifa — both veteran military reservists — were killed when their Bell AH-1 Cobra crashed early Tuesday morning in southern Israel as it traveled from the training flight to the Palmachim Air Base. The families of the two pilots were...
The Greater New Orleans Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is holding a fundraiser with a Hawaiian theme on Saturday, April 6. According to co-chairs Marisa Kahn and Rollie Rabin, “A Hawaiian Paradise” will be held at the Sun Ray Grill, 1051 Annunciation Street from 7:00-10:00 p.m.
The event will feature Hawaiian music, hula dancers, genuine island leis, a Kosher-style luau and a silent auction, the proceeds...
(JTA) — Barbra Streisand will make her official performing debut in Israel at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres. Streisand is slated to perform at the opening ceremony of the Israeli Presidential Conference on June 18.
According to the Times of Israel, it will be the iconic Jewish entertainer’s first official performance in Israel, although she has been to Israel on several occasions for personal visits.
Streisand is...
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(JTA) — Four weeks before he murdered seven people in Toulouse, a cheerful Mohammed Merah was filmed laughing and showing off his skiing skills to friends at a popular Alpine resort.
The footage, televised on March 6, formed the opening sequence in a controversial documentary about the 23-year-old, French-born jihadist who murdered three soldiers and four Jews last year in a rampage that shocked the country.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — He’s had to bite a few bullets to get there, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lead Israel’s next government.
Barring a last-minute surprise, Israel’s new governing coalition will be sworn in this week: a center-right grouping of Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud-Beiteinu faction, the centrist Yesh Atid party, the religious nationalist Jewish Home party, the center-left Hatnua led by Tzipi Livni and the...
