Thursday June 21, 2018 | 8 Tammuz 5778
(JTA) — The oldest Jewish cemetery in Boston is set to become a community center for the newest immigrants on the city’s east side. The Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts announced plans to convert Ohabei Shalom’s Gothic Revival burial chapel into the East Boston Immigration Center four years ago, according to The Times of Israel....
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A group of 10 rabbis has traveled to Texas to examine detention facilities for separated families on the U.S.-Mexico border. The group, which is aiming to visit the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Centralized Processing Center on Thursday, includes rabbis from all four major Jewish religious movements and is part of...
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(JTA) — Isaac Herzog, Israel’s opposition leader, will replace Natan Sharansky as the head of the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency for Israel. Herzog, a rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has served in the Knesset since 2003, also serving in various ministerial posts, including Diaspora minister. The Jewish Agency rejected Netanyahu’s preferred choice, Energy Minister...
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(JTA) — A far-left British newspaper that regularly features articles by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn apologized for running an op-ed linking rising anti-Semitism to “Israel’s crimes.” On Wednesday, The Morning Star pulled offline an article titled “Rising Anti-Semitism Cannot be Tackled without Addressing Israel’s Crimes.” “This article has been removed from the website as...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel’s prime minister, has been indicted on fraud and breach of trust charges for ordering some $96,000 worth of private meals from high-end restaurants rather than using the residence’s cook to prepare meals. The indictment alleging “systematic fraud” was filed Thursday in Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court. Ezra Saidoff,...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The number of people rejected as being not Jewish for the purposes of marriage in Israel appears to have more than doubled in the past seven years, according to data from the country’s rabbinical courts. In 2010, the number of Jews who registered to marry in Israel and then had their Jewish...
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