A force for constructive communal consciousness
THE HAGUE, the Netherlands (JTA) – The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority advised the government to ban ritual slaughter of animals, citing pain and suffering caused to them in the process. [Read more…]
David Ben-Gurion at a conference in Tel Aviv on Dec. 15, 1947. (GPO)
(JTA) – Thirty-eight letters and nine telegrams written by David Ben-Gurion to his lover in the 1930s will be auctioned off with a starting bid of $20,000. [Read more…]
(JTA) – A trendy London nightclub had its license suspended after a brawl there that involved anti-Semitic remarks. [Read more…]
(JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he did not mean to suggest the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews depended on the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem. [Read more…]
(JTA) – New Zealand diplomats at the United Nations Security Council circulated a draft resolution urging Israel to stop settlement construction and calling on the Palestinians to drop their International Criminal Court bid against Israel. [Read more…]
SCHEVENINGEN, the Netherlands (JTA) – Adopting a moderate tone, Mahmoud Abbas assured Dutch Jews that he neither intends to abandon the Oslo Accords nor insist on the absorption of millions of Palestinians into Israel. [Read more…]
(JTA) – Unidentified individuals destroyed nine headstones at a Dutch Jewish cemetery. [Read more…]
(JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated prime minister designate Justin Trudeau in a telephone call affirming the friendship between Israel and Canada. [Read more…]
(JTA) – Pope Francis said that attacks both on Jews and the State of Israel are anti-Semitic. [Read more…]
(JTA) – The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space voted to accept Israel as a full member. [Read more…]