April 11th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – Russia accused Israel of striking an air base in central Syria that killed 14, and two unnamed U.S. officials reportedly confirmed that it was Israel that carried out the attack. Iranian nationals were among ... Read More →
April 11th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – The Israeli biomedical engineer who created cultured meat technology was inducted as a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. Yaacov Nahmias of Hebrew University was honored in a ceremony Monday ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – Campus police at a Massachusetts college are investigating an incident of harassment against a Jewish student. The incident took place two weeks ago at Hampshire College in Amherst. The college’s president, Jonathan Lash, condemned ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – One of the British Labour Party’s major donors left the party over its failure to deal with “the most blatant acts of antisemitism.” Sir David Garrard, who is Jewish, has donated about $2.1 million to Labour ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman asserted that there will not be an international inquiry into the Gaza border clashes that left at least 15 Palestinians dead and hundreds injured. “Israeli soldiers did what was ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
Scarlett Johansson is on board to star in a film in which she would portray a German mother hiding a Jewish girl in her home from the Nazis. “Jojo Rabbit” centers on a young German boy ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – A British Labour Party leader has resigned after she called for the reinstatement of a City Council candidate accused of Holocaust denial. Christine Shawcroft, the chairwoman of the party’s disputes panel, said in a ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – Mississippi’s Senate passed a law that allows the state treasury to invest in Israel Bonds. The state’s Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill into law on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Bryant reportedly ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – Someone broke into the office of a Jewish student group at a university in Paris, vandalizing with anti-Israel and antisemitic graffiti and strewing its papers across the room. The attack on the office of ... Read More →
April 3rd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – A teenage student at a prestigious British private school was suspended for trying to force-feed a slice of ham pizza to a Jewish student while others watched. The incident at Clifton College in Bristol, ... Read More →
(JTA) – Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump will be part Read more →
(JTA) – Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s minority leader, told Read more →
(JTA) – Thousands of Barnard College alumni have called on Read more →
(JTA) – Forty Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House Read more →
(JTA) – Rachel Weisz, the Jewish actress who starred in Read more →
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