AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Germany has pledged nearly $4.5 million toward renovating the Dutch national Holocaust museum. Emile Schrijver, director of Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter, an organization comprising five museums and institutions in the Dutch capital, announced the funding Monday. “We expected a donation of half a million or a million euros,” Schrijver told Het Parool. […]

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah 5780, Israel’s population now stands at 9.092 million according to a report by the Central Bureau Of Statistics(CBS). The population is projected to exceed 10 million by 2024 and 20 million by 2065. The population grew by 2.1 percent from the eve of Rosh Hashanah last year. The CBS […]

WASHINGTON (JNS) U.S. Reps. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) and David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) sent a letter on Thursday to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, sharing their concerns over tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Israel, and seeking an explanation why Israel has not been granted an exception. “We do not believe imports of steel and aluminum from […]

An orthodox Jewish woman was assaulted in a Target, after she allegedly reached for an item in the store and extended her hand over the attacker’s daughter without saying “excuse me”. The woman became extremely agitated and started hurling verbal abuse at the woman. She then threatened to “knock her head off”. If that wasn’t […]

Miami – A Florida health care executive was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors described as a massive $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Robert Scola imposed the sentence on Philip Esformes, 50, in one of the biggest such cases in U.S. history. Scola called the case one […]