Archive for March, 2016

UNHRC to debate boycotting Israeli settlements

UNHRC to debate boycotting Israeli settlements

Lapid to call for end to council funding at Geneva rally   The UN Human Rights Council is set to debate on Monday a resolution… Read More ›

AIPAC navigates divisive US campaign at annual conference in Washington

AIPAC navigates divisive US campaign at annual conference in Washington

Trump to draw protests • Sanders left out • Biden speaks today.   WASHINGTON – The powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee believes its influence… Read More ›

Inside the Jewish life of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland

Inside the Jewish life of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland

Experienced judge who may soon be fourth sitting Jewish justice sees his family’s Jewish immigrant story as impetus for life of public service   JTA… Read More ›

Retailers are clamoring over a specific kind of millennial

Retailers are clamoring over a specific kind of millennial

  Retailers are clamoring for the attention of a group of consumers that’s growing in both number and power: millennial moms. Chick-fil-A recently launched a… Read More ›

An exec who worked at Google for more than a decade reveals what he’ll miss most now that he’s left to join a startup

An exec who worked at Google for more than a decade reveals what he’ll miss most now that he’s left to join a startup

  Alan Warren worked at Google for nearly 12 years before making the leap to health-insurance startup Oscar earlier this week. Warren helped build Google’s New… Read More ›

ISIS’ backup plan is falling apart

ISIS’ backup plan is falling apart

  Libya has become ISIS’ new frontier as it faces territorial loses in its stronghold in Iraq and Syria, but it faces major roadblocks to… Read More ›

New York, NY – Man Injured In Crane Collapse Files $30M Claim Against NYC

New York, NY – Man Injured In Crane Collapse Files $30M Claim Against NYC

  New York, NY – A man who was injured after a large construction crane collapsed in New York City last month has filed a… Read More ›

Hebron – Palestinian Teenager Shot Dead After Attacking Israeli Policeman

Hebron – Palestinian Teenager Shot Dead After Attacking Israeli Policeman

  Hebron – A Palestinian teenager was shot dead on Saturday after stabbing an Israeli paramilitary police officer near a Jewish settlement in the West… Read More ›

Brussels – Prosecutor: Suspect Backed Out Of Being Paris Suicide Bomber; Video Shows Arrest

Brussels – Prosecutor: Suspect Backed Out Of Being Paris Suicide Bomber; Video Shows Arrest

  Brussels –  After a bullet in the leg ended his four-month flight from the law, Salah Abdeslam started a legal fight Saturday against his… Read More ›

Home of Duma trial witness said torched in West Bank village

Home of Duma trial witness said torched in West Bank village

Rabbis for Human Rights reports on attack, says it suspects a murder attempt linked to deadly July 2015 firebomb attack   The home of a… Read More ›

Jerusalem checking if suicide bomber targeted Israelis

Jerusalem checking if suicide bomber targeted Israelis

Netanyahu says Israel and Turkey cooperating after Istanbul attack leaves 3 Israelis dead; IS fingered as likely culprit   Israel was attempting to find out… Read More ›

In Israel, a new generation of ultra-Orthodox Jews seek integration

In Israel, a new generation of ultra-Orthodox Jews seek integration

Young Haredim increasingly want to have it all: a religious lifestyle and community together with the benefits of modernity and work   AP — A… Read More ›

English Premier League: Iwobi and Welbeck shine for Arsenal at Everton

English Premier League: Iwobi and Welbeck shine for Arsenal at Everton

  Perhaps resting John Stones was not the greatest strategy by Everton manager Roberto Martinez. Without the England center back manning the back line, Everton’s… Read More ›

American regrets ‘bad decision’ to travel to ISIS stronghold

American regrets ‘bad decision’ to travel to ISIS stronghold

Mohamad Jamal Khweis blames a young woman he met in Turkey. The American-born son of Palestinian immigrants in Virginia, Khweis told Kurdistan24 that he followed… Read More ›

Missing Texas girl Adriana Coronado found dead, police say

Missing Texas girl Adriana Coronado found dead, police say

The body of a girl found Wednesday afternoon in a field not far from a Texas freeway has been identified as Adriana Coronado, police in… Read More ›

Hubble finds ‘monster stars’

Hubble finds ‘monster stars’

  There are monsters in the universe. That’s the description of stars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took a shot of the R136… Read More ›

Jews indicted in racist beating of Jerusalem Arab

Jews indicted in racist beating of Jerusalem Arab

Earlier this month, five teenagers violently attacked an Arab employee of the Jerusalem Municipality in a park, yelling ‘Death to Arabs’ while they beat him,… Read More ›

Turkish activist wishes for death of wounded Israeli tourists

Turkish activist wishes for death of wounded Israeli tourists

Irem Atkas, an activist from President Erdogan’s party, posts tweet wishing for the death of Israelis wounded in a terror attack Saturday morning in central… Read More ›

Bible Lands Museum brings together Jewish, Palestinian children

Bible Lands Museum brings together Jewish, Palestinian children

‘Image of Abraham’ program encourages coexistence for Israeli and Palestinian students from Jerusalem. The wave of terror roiling Israel in recent months has put Jewish-Arab… Read More ›

Turkish PM offers condolences to Israeli victims of Istanbul blast

Turkish PM offers condolences to Israeli victims of Istanbul blast

Ahmet Davutoglu condemned “heinous attack” in letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.   Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu communicated his condolences to the Israeli victims… Read More ›