LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has finally abandoned his promise of an October Brexit and pinned his hopes on a December election. Two days after lawmakers stymied Johnson’s latest attempt to pass his European Union divorce deal, he said Thursday that the only way to break Britain’s Brexit impasse was a general […]

MICHIGAN (JNS) — The sukkah at the Hillel at Michigan State University was destroyed by two males on Saturday, according to surveillance footage. In a Facebook post, MSU Hillel said that the two men appeared to be “extremely inebriated.” MSU Hillel executive director Cindy Hughey noticed the damage on Monday morning when she stopped at […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders was one of only two Democratic presidential candidates to address the Islamic Society of North America Convention in August, the largest annual gathering of Muslim Americans in the country. Organizers invited the 10 highest-polling contenders at the time to the Houston event, but the Vermont senator and Julian Castro were […]

HIGHLAND PARK (JTA) — A public reading and talk at a New Jersey library by the author of the children’s book “P is for Palestine” went forward amid protests outside after being postponed in May due to objections from the local Jewish community. Four adults and three children attended the event Sunday at the Highland […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday accused U.S. officials of maintaining hostility against Pyongyang despite a “special” relationship between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump and urged Washington to act “wisely” through the end of the year. The statement issued by Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan was clearly referring […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — The Israel Defense Forces demolished the home of Islam Yousef Abu Hamid for the second time on Thursday, after his family rebuilt it following the original demolition in December 2018. Abu Hamid was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2019 by an Israeli military court for the murder of IDF St. Sgt. […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Blue and White and Likud party leaders Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in the coming days to discuss the possibility of forming a unity government, the parties announced on Wednesday night. The announcement followed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s official transfer of the mandate to form a government to […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dangerously windy weather sweeping through the state brought power outages to Northern California as the state’s largest utility staged blackouts designed to prevent catastrophic wildfires. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Wednesday began rolling blackouts stretching from the Sierra foothills in the northeast to portions of the San Francisco Bay Area. […]

ASHINGTON (AP) — They pleaded ignorance, saying they’d not read the diplomat’s damning statement. They condemned the Democrats’ tactics as unfair. They complained that the allegations against President Donald Trump rested on second- or third-hand evidence. Wednesday was a day of careful counterargument by congressional Republicans, the day after America’s top envoy in Ukraine gave […]

NEW YORK (VosIzNeias) — A survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee(AJC)  to mark the anniversary of the shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue that killed 11 people last year has revealed that nearly a third of Jewish Americans avoid wearing things that may reveal their religious identity. The AJC released the results of […]