Jewish News

Jewish candidates secure major wins in House, Senate

As Republicans captured a majority in the House of Representatives from President Barack Obama’s Democrats and secured major gains in the Senate on Tuesday, Jewish candidates from both sides of the political spectrum also saw some impressive victories.California Senator Barbara Boxer (D) won her re-election bid, pulling in 50.1 percent of the vote compared to 44.2% for former Hewlett Packard ...

Jewish Business Network Returns to Ft. Myers

The Jewish Business Network of Southwest Florida is making a comeback by popular demand.After more than a year and a half of inactivity, Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of the Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida will revive the group at a kick-off event on Wednesday.“People have been wanting it for a while,” Minkowicz said. “The cry was pretty loud.”When the group started ...

Jewish Building in Yesha Languishes, While Arab Building Booms

Despite the end of the building in Judea and Samaria, construction is still almost at a standstill – in Jewish towns and cities, that is. But the construction sector in PA controlled areas of Judea and Samaria is booming, with a 26% rise in building starts this year, compared to 2007, the PA announced this week.In a news conference to ...

Jewish Billionaires Worth $812 Billion, Forbes Israel Reports

The 165 Jewish billionaires around the world have $812 billion in joint wealth, Forbes Israel reported on Thursday.The richest Jew in the world is Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, with a net worth of $43 billion, according to Forbes, up $7 billion from last year. Ellison was fifth on the Forbes 2013 world billionaires list.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in ...

‘Jewish’ Bachmann is Costing Mitt Romney

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing a new challenge: He’s having trouble raising money from some Jewish donors who mistakenly believe one of his opponents, Michele Bachmann, is Jewish.Some Jewish donors are telling fund-raisers for Romney, a Mormon, that while they like him, they’d rather open their wallets for the “Jewish candidate,” who they don’t realize is actually a ...

Jewish Authors Who Champion the Cause of Enemies

In an article in the Guardian, published on March 12th, Israeli author David Grossman expresses his belief that the Jewish state must be saved, not from the threats posed by a nuclear Iran, but from those posed by Jewish paranoia.He asserts, “It is Israel’s fears, not a nuclear Iran, that we must tame” and says that a strike on Iranian nuclear ...

Jewish author Philip Roth nominated for Man Booker International Prize

American Jewish author Philip Roth is among the 13 authors shortlisted for the biennial Man Booker International Prize which will be awarded on May 18 in Sydney.The prize is worth 60,000 pounds ($96,000) to the winner, and living authors whose works of fiction are either originally in English or generally available in English translation are eligible.It honors a writer’s body ...

Jewish Author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Remembered

Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of dozens of popular children’s books, most notably “Where the Wild Things Are,” died on Tuesday at the age of 83 at a hospital in Danbury, Conn., after suffering from a recent stroke.His admitted obsession with “children and their survival” and the “humongous heroism of children” fueled a career that transformed children’s literature into a ...

Jewish-Australian Leadership Condemns Mufti’s Visit to Hamas in Gaza

The mufti of Australia visited Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza Strip last Wednesday, sparking condemnation among the country’s Jewish leadership.Dr. Ibrahim “Abu Mohammed” Salem led a delegation of Australian sheikhs and scholars to Gaza last week, saying he wanted to learn from Hamas’ leaders.Peter Wertheim, the executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said, “There is ...

Jewish and Muslim leaders vow to fight growing racism in Europe

Prominent Muslim and Jewish leaders expressed Monday deep concern regarding the rise of far-right xenophobic and racist parties in Europe and pledged to work together to put an end to the extremist phenomenon threatening “ethnic and religious minorities.”Members of the Coordinating Committee of European Muslim and Jewish Leaders from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United ...

Jewish and Muslim leaders join forces to combat xenophobia

80 leading Jewish and Muslim leaders from across Ukraine and Russia met in Kievon Thursday May 12, pledging to work together to fight a rising cascade of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the two countries.In the first-ever “Muslims and Jews United Against Hatred and Extremism” conference held in the Ukrainian capital, community leaders from both countries heard chilling accounts of discrimination ...

Jewish and black South African teens cycle to Durban for charity

Jewish and black South African teens have come together for a joint, 400-mile bike ride to Durban under the auspices of the Cycalive outreach program, JTA reported on Monday.Cycalive is an annual initiative that brings youth of different backgrounds together to raise funds for educational programs in need.This year’s group of cyclists included 40 high school students from Johannesburg’s Torah ...