By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Eli Varon, 28, of Seattle appeared briefly in a King County Superior Court on Tuesday, June 10, flanked by his attorney David Marshall, who asked Judge Jim Rogers for more time to gather evidence and negotiate the charges with deputy prosecutor Corinn Bohn. TheContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Jean (Mosseri) Naggar was 19 when her family received an expulsion notice. It was 1957 Cairo, in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, and Jews were fleeing Egypt en masse. The office they were to report to, ironically, was on aContinue Reading
By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — Eric Cantor’s defeat in one constituency, Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, triggered mourning among another: Republican Jews. Since 2009, Rep. Cantor (R-Va.) has been the only Jewish Republican in Congress. After the 2010 GOP takeover of the House, he became theContinue Reading
By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line [AL-QUDS UNIVERSITY] — The Palestinian professor who touched off a maelstrom of controversy by taking a group of students to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland is now at odds with his former employer after the school accepted his resignation. Dr. MohammedContinue Reading
By Boris Kurbanov, Special to Jewish Sound When I was 14, my friend Yoni and I took in a Yankees game on a late spring night. As we watched Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Shawn Green — first-round draft pick, two-time All-Star, Jew — take batting practice in the humid NewContinue Reading
(JTA) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will not support the sale of the team and will go forward with a federal lawsuit against the NBA. Sterling’s attorney on Monday said his client would not approve the $2 billion sale to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer — a dealContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A political action committee preparing the ground for a Hillary Rodham Clinton run for the presidency launched a Jewish outreach. Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary launched last week just before the Shavuot holiday. It is attached to Ready for Hillary, a so-called Super PAC founded in JanuaryContinue Reading
Linda Gradstein/The Media Line Israel’s 120-seat parliament today chose long-time Likud member Reuven Rivlin as the country’s next president who will succeed the popular Shimon Peres, who retires next month at the age of 90. Rivlin, who served two terms as speaker of the Knesset, has been a member ofContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Israel has no constitution. The reason, according to local lore, is that the secular majority and the ultra-Orthodox minority could not agree on how to refer to God so they never wrote an actual constitution. Instead there are a series of 13 “Basic Laws”Continue Reading
The oldest man alive of record has passed at 111. Alexander Imich was a Holocaust survivor born in Poland in 1903 who lived through a Soviet Gulag and emigrated to the US in the 1950s. He died peacefully at his home in New York peacefully on Sunday. He had turnedContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick Editor, The Jewish Sound Attitudes about Israel can be grouped into three different age groups, according to author and newspaper columnist Ari Shavit, and the gap, he said, is astonishing. People 70 and older can look to the Holocaust and see Israel as their safe haven. PeopleContinue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Special to The Jewish Sound Mercer Island resident Alan Woog had some unfinished business. Five years ago, Woog shared the Northwest Senior United States Tennis Association indoor doubles championship in the 85-and-over division. Word of his athletic prowess apparently spread across the tennis circuit because there were noContinue Reading
(JTA) — Eitan Green, a Solomon Schechter day school alumnus from Needham, Mass., was among six hikers killed on Mount Rainier.Green, an experienced mountain guide for Alpine Ascents International who had made more than 40 ascents up Mount Rainier, was ascending the north face of the mountain with one otherContinue Reading
TORONTO (JTA) — A Canadian judge has invalidated the will of a man who bequeathed his estate to a U.S. neo-Nazi group. A court in New Brunswick ruled June 5 that the National Alliance, an American hate group, may not inherit the estate of Robert McCorkill because such a bequestContinue Reading
By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News WASHINGTON (JTA) — The new Palestinian unity government brought together rivals Hamas and Fatah, but it has opened a divide between allies Israel and the United States. “I’m deeply troubled by the announcement that the United States will work with the Palestinian government backedContinue Reading
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) As a sign of respect for observant Jews, the start time of the Rolling Stones June 4 concert in Tel Aviv has been pushed back by half an hour to allow those observing the Shavuot holiday to arrive at the event comfortably after the holiday endsContinue Reading
(JNS.org) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new unity government on Monday following an agreement between Abbas’s Fatah party and the terrorist group Hamas. The agreement came as the two sides resolved a dispute over a key ministry position. “Today, after announcing the government of national unity weContinue Reading
Tuesday night marks the beginning of Shavuot, a holiday at which the story of Ruth, the Moabite convert and considered one of the greatest heroines of the Torah, is read. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach argues that the greatest challenge facing the world Jewish community is it’s shrinking size and looks at the possibilities of focusedContinue Reading
With the reality of another failed round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks sinking in for American leftist Zionist groups, many of these organizations are now facing the challenge of restrategizing and reframing their message to the American Jewish audience. Groups like J Street, Americans for Peace Now and Israel Policy Forum areContinue Reading
By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org During the same weekend, the fatal shooting at a Jewish museum in Brussels and the surge of right-wing parties in continent-wide parliament elections have brought the multidirectional threats faced by Europe’s Jews back to the forefront. These problems are coming together from theContinue Reading
