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One of the last unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls has finally been deciphered bringing researchers one step closer to unravelling the mystery of the texts written more than 2,000 years ago. Most of the scrolls were deciphered in the years after they were found in the 1940s and 1950s. The ancient religious texts, which are written […]
A former journalist has been sentenced to 60 months in prison after admitting to terrorizing Jewish groups with bomb threats in a campaign to intimidate his ex-girlfriend. She says the NYPD ignored her calls for help. Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced former Intercept journalist Juan Thompson, 32, of St. Louis, Missouri Wednesday, and labeled the […]
Outraged Jewish rights groups have penned a letter to the Polish president, demanding an explanation for a bizarre naked “game of tag” art performance inside a former death camp’s gas chamber. The 5-minute video, titled “Game of Tag,” shows several men and women, all stark naked, running and laughing in a concrete dungeon resembling a […]
Published time: 26 Nov, 2017 20:39 Some 35 ultra-Orthodox demonstrators have been arrested in Jerusalem during an anti-draft protest. The protesters disrupted road and light rail traffic, while the police deployed stinking water cannons to disperse the crowd. Dozens of ultra-Orthodox anti draft protesters gathered in central Jerusalem on Sunday, blocking road and light rail […]
Published time: 19 Nov, 2017 17:40 Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls over 70 years ago, numerous theories have abounded about who wrote the ancient manuscripts. Now over 30 newly-excavated skeletons may finally provide an answer. The first of the scrolls were found by Bedouin goat herders in the Qumran area of the […]
Published time: 3 Nov, 2017 18:17 A Jewish organisation is demanding an apology after Labour MP Harriet Harman repeated a joke about the Holocaust as an example of offensive humor. Harman, appearing on BBC One’s This Week, was debating the limits of humor with host Andrew Neil and other guests. “I’ve long been accused of […]
Published time: 29 Oct, 2017 14:01 An Israeli bill that would make several Jewish settlements part of the city of Jerusalem, solidifying a Jewish majority, has been put on pause by the government due to pressure from the US, local media report. The controversial bill has been in discussion since last year. It would establish […]
Published time: 22 Oct, 2017 22:55 Fifteen members of the radical Jewish group Lehava suspected of attacking and threatening Arab men dating Jewish women have been arrested in Israel, including the group’s controversial leader, Ben-Tzion Gopstein. The raids and arrests were carried out simultaneously in Jerusalem, northern and southern Israel and in Jewish settlements in […]
Published time: 20 Sep, 2017 16:01 A federal court denied convicted Charleston shooter Dylann Roof’s request to replace his two defense lawyers, who are Jewish and Indian. Roof called the lawyers appealing against his death sentence his “political and biological enemies.” Roof, 23, killed nine and wounded three black parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist […]
Published time: 29 Aug, 2017 00:36 The Israeli government will soon consider recommendations to grant gentiles with Jewish roots, crypto-Jews and members of “emerging communities” who are not eligible for immigration, extended visas to explore their Jewish heritage. The committee, appointed by Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry and headed by political theorist Ofir Haivry, is set […]
