ATHENS, Greece (JTA) – The mayor of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki wore a yellow Star of David at his inauguration to protest a newly elected city councilman from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.Mayor Yiannis...
(JTA) — Eric Cantor, the former House majority leader, is joining a Wall Street investment bank as vice chairman and managing director.Cantor, 51, who served as the Republican congressman for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, also will...
MORRIS HERMAN, a successful antiques dealer and jeweler, who ran the J. Herman Son Antiques store on Royal Street, died peacefully at his home in New Orleans on Tuesday morning, September 2, 2014. He was 85 years old.
(JTA) — Comic and talk show host Joan Rivers reportedly is on life support. Doctors are reportedly attempting to reverse the medically-induced coma over the course of the next day.
The family will have to decide whether to keep Rivers,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli firm SodaStream, which has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, is considering closing its West Bank factory.
CEO Daniel Birnbaum told the Israeli economic publication The Marker that the company, which...
(Tazpit News Agency) — Spillover from some of the most intense fighting of the war in Syria is finding its way across the border into Israel, with loud explosions heard and a mortar falling this morning in...
(Tazpit News Agency) — An Israel Air Force Patriot missile shot down an unmanned drone this afternoon that entered Israeli airspace near the Syrian border town of Kuneitra. As the Syrian civil war continues to spill over...
(Tazpit News Agency) — Sergeant Shahar Shalev, 20, a fighter in the elite Paratrooper Recon Unit, died this morning of wounds he incurred during Operation Protective Edge. Shalev is the 72nd Israeli casualty of the operation and...
