by Cnaan Liphshiz | Aug 23, 2019 | International, Israel, News
A 17-year-old Israeli girl was killed, and her father and brother were severely wounded, in a bomb attack on Aug. 23 at a nature reserve in the West Bank. Rina Shnerb of Lod, her father, Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, and her brother Dvir, 19, were hiking at the Ein Bubin... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Aug 9, 2019 | National, National Politics, News
A Christian pastor’s anti-Semitic rant, in which he called for the death of Sarah Silverman, has the 48-year-old Jewish comedian fearing for her life. Silverman, a vocal supporter of numerous liberal causes, on Aug. 8 posted a video on Twitter of the sermon and said,... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jul 26, 2019 | International, Israel, National, News
An award-winning CNN photo editor resigned after anti-Semitic tweets he made in 2011 were discovered. Mohammed Elshamy, an Egyptian-born former photojournalist and documentary filmmaker with the Turkish Anadolu news agency, quit on July 25 after an employee of... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jul 24, 2019 | News
(JTA) — No matter their political affiliation, all sides can agree that Boris Johnson, who has secured his Conservative Party’s vote to become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister, is a colorful character. As the mayor of London, a position he held for eight years... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jul 12, 2019 | Israel, News
More than a dozen rabbis from the central Israeli city of Elad issued an edict declaring all dogs bad and warning residents that keeping them will make them accursed. The edict, dated June 14, contains the signatures of all the Sephardic rabbis in Elad, a city of... read more