A French court slapped writer Alain Soral with a a $13,000 fine and a suspended prison sentence of six months for saying the Nazis should have finished killing the Jews of Europe.\n
“If Jon Stewart composed an opera,” director Tanya Kane-Parry said recently, referring to the former host of the popular satirical news program “The Daily Show,” “it would be like Jacob TV’s ‘The News.’ ”
Eva Nathanson doesn’t feel the same guilt her parents did for having been spared an anonymous death at the hands of Nazis, when so many others perished.
John Shapiro, the former chairman of the American Jewish Committee’s board of trustees, was elected president of the organization.
Sarah Aroeste’s recently released album is exactly the kind of music parents of young children look for and toddlers love: catchy, easy-to-sing melodies, simple repetitive lyrics inspired by the child’s everyday world, and dollops of humor and surprise.
Ukrainian police detained two Israelis who triggered a brawl in Uman by shooting a local man in the face with a BB gun.
In an election year that has already passed the abnormal and entered the zone of the surreal, the June 12 terror attack in Orlando, Fla., throws even more uncertainty into the mix.
A Jewish activist in Buenos Aires accused of being a pimp was suspended from the city’s Jewish center.
Two elderly women in Britain said that they had been sexually abused, one of them as a child, by a late lawmaker who was a grandson of the Austrian Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
A week after Palestinian terrorists killed four Israelis in an upscale Tel Aviv food court, the Knesset on Wednesday passed wide-ranging new anti-terrorism legislation to replace all previous anti-terror laws and regulations.\n
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