Israel’s Ministry of Religious Services said it will cover the costs of the burial and funeral for the Paris kosher supermarket victims.
Israel\’s foreign minister called Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan an \”anti-Semitic bully\” in a meeting with Israeli ambassadors on Wednesday and said Europe was being cowardly in not taking him on.
Charlie Hebdo\’s first edition since an attack by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes on Wednesday, featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on a cover that defenders praised as art but critics saw as a new provocation.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ordered by the Islamist militant group\’s leadership for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to a video posted on YouTube.
Rhoda Baral died Dec. 22 at 84. Survived by son Jim (Eileen); sister Elenor Miggins; 2 grandchildren. Hillside
Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar in the field of American studies and a translator of Sholem Aleichem and other Yiddish writers, died Dec. 9 at 81.
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