JERUSALEM (JTA) — The attorney for the Israeli-American teenager accused of making threats against Jewish community centers in the United States told an Israeli television news program that he has attempted suicide five times in the past two weeks. The teen from Ashkelon, in southern Israel, is currently in the psychiatric ward of an Israeli hospital, after being…
The 5th annual Israel Film Center Festival launches this May with a diverse selection of Israel’s latest hit films. The focus of this festival is Israeli stories beyond the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Throughout the years, many of the films highlighted in this festival have not necessarily been featured in the top international festivals,…
Despite being held during the middle of the Passover Holiday, a special preview screening of Joseph Cedar’s latest film, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer at JCC Manhattan brought out a packed house and opened in theaters to relatively nice sales this past weekend. Cedar was at the screening…
The parents of Michael Kadar, the Israeli teenager accused of launched fake bomb threats at dozens of American Jewish institutions and starting his own Web-based document forgery and weapons sales operations, said their son was not responsible for his actions given severe neurological deficits. “We are so, so, sorry,” the two told the Times of…
A Republican senator was a target of the Israeli-American teen charged with making threatening calls to Jewish community centers in the United States, court documents reveal. Haaretz reported that the indictment, which will be handed down in an Israeli court today, includes details about how the teen called the senator to get him to retract…
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. filed charges today against the 18-year-old Israeli man accused of orchestrating a massive campaign of bomb threats against Jewish institutions across the United States. Michael David Kadar, a dual Israeli-U.S. citizen currently in custody in Israel, now faces felony charges in federal courts in Georgia and Florida. In addition to…
“The show must go on” has become almost a trite expression, but a recent experience at the Rochester JCC breathed new life into the once tired phrase. A recent outbreak of bomb threats, made with the intent to cause fear, has hit Jewish Community Centers. Even after two such incidents, a JCC in Rochester, New…
Smells of kreplach and challah wafted into the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin on a rainy Friday in March, as Israel-born chef Itay Novick and his staff hurriedly worked in the nearby kitchen to prepare Sabbath dinner for nearly 100 guests. The dinner was part of the first-ever Jewish food festival in the city, Nosh Berlin,…
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