(JTA) – A neighbor was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of three Muslims near the University of North Carolina. The victims in the Tuesday night shooting included a newlywed couple — UNC dental student Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21. Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan MohammadContinue Reading
(JTA) — The Stanford University student senate defeated an Israel divestment resolution. On Tuesday night, the Associated Students of Stanford University had nine votes for the measure and five against, with one abstention. But to pass, the measure required 66 percent of the senators to approve and finished with 64Continue Reading
(JTA) — A French watchdog on anti-Semitism said President Barack Obama mislabeled the slaying of four Jews near Paris as “random.” Sammy Ghozlan, founder of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, and a former police commissioner, spoke out against Obama’s assertion Wednesday in an interview with JTA.Continue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound This is the true story of three to five strangers picked to live in a house to work together for pluralistic and innovative Jewish programming. Moishe House, with 75 houses in 17 countries, is dedicated to bringing Jewish twenty-somethings together in communal living situationsContinue Reading
By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – The controversy over whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress next month is worrying pro-Israel Democrats about its possible impact on the 2016 elections. Even more worrisome, some Democrats say, are the voter trends underpinning the currentContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is determined to speak to Congress on March 3. “At a time when there are those who would deal with protocol and politics, an agreement with Iran is taking shape in Munich that would risk Israel’s existence,” Netanyahu said onContinue Reading
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin launched a project to help integrate Arab-Israelis into the workforce. Rivlin announced the project Sunday during a meeting at the president’s residence in Jerusalem with CEOs and employers involved in the initiative. Days earlier, Rivlin met with the mayors and local council headsContinue Reading
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The University of California Student Association passed two resolutions urging the university to divest from several countries, including Israel, the United States and Mexico. On Sunday, the association’s board of directors cited human rights violations in several countries in backing measures that urged the University ofContinue Reading
(JTA) — A Muslim teacher said he resigned from a French private high school for Muslims because of rampant anti-Semitism and radicalism among his students. Soufiane Zitouni, a former philosophy teacher at the Averroes high school in Lille, in northern France, revealed his reasons for quitting five months after startingContinue Reading
(JTA) — A Tunisian tennis player who withdrew from a 2013 match rather than face an Israeli quit a match in France with an Israeli opponent up next. Malek Jaziri cited an elbow injury for his withdrawal Feb. 4 from the Open Sud de France after winning the first setContinue Reading
(JTA) — James Foley and Steven Sotloff, American journalists who were killed by ISIS, were honored with an award in memory of the murdered Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl. The ADL Daniel Pearl Award was presented to the parents of Foley and Sotloff last Friday during the organization’s National Executive CommitteeContinue Reading
By Rebecca Spence, JTA World News Service (JTA) — “You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob, what is the matter with them?” That was President Richard Nixon speakingContinue Reading
Dear readers, Over the past several years, we have watched as the world has shifted from consuming its news in print to online. At the same time, the Jewish Federation has been questioning whether the best vehicle for community outreach and communications would be through a print newspaper such asContinue Reading
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A federal judge in Argentina who has authored a book about the Holocaust was tapped to pick up the late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s case against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Daniel Rafecas, who has a relationship with the Jewish community, was chosen by lotteryContinue Reading
NEW YORK (JTA) – Ellen Schaeffer Brody, a Jewish mother of three from Scarsdale, was identified as the driver of the SUV that caused a deadly Metro-North train accident in suburban New York. Brody, 49, and five passengers aboard the train were killed during rush hour on Tuesday evening whenContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound By any stretch of the imagination, the Jewish community of the greater Seattle area is a growing, vibrant place. Where those Jews are and how they live offers a fascinating and at times surprising overview of who we are as a community. AccordingContinue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Labor Chairman Isaac Herzog won’t be debating each other ahead of Israel’s March election, but English speakers in Tel Aviv who packed an event hall here got the next best thing: Candidates from five parties cameContinue Reading
By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — After the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last month, Kari Alterman heard from every one of her Detroit-area Muslim dialogue partners, all of them calling to express their sadness and concern. They just didn’t do so publicly. Statements condemning violenceContinue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) — There were wings, beers, giant TV screens, and football fans wearing New England Patriots sweatshirts and Seattle Seahawks jerseys. If not for the fact that it was 1 a.m. and former Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid stood in the center ofContinue Reading
(JTA) — Two swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity’s house at the University of California, Davis, two days after the student senate passed a divestment resolution targeting Israel. The swastikas were painted on the off-campus house of Alpha Epsilon Pi sometime early Saturday morning. “I don’t think that it’sContinue Reading
