While law enforcement agents were searching the Brooklyn home of Akayed Ullah, the would-be suicide attacker who had detonated a pipe bomb in a Manhattan subway on Monday, a Chabad husband and wife took the unusual opportunity to launch a “mitzvah campaign” in the neighborhood. Rabbi Yisrolik Langsam, who heads a Chabad outpost in the…
(JTA) — The suspect in a pipe bomb attack on New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal said he was motivated by Israeli actions in Gaza, CNN reported. Akayed Ullah spoke with authorities at Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken after the bomb went off prematurely. He was the sole casualty in the attack when his homemade…
Sirens sounded in southern Israel Friday evening as the country’s missile defense system intercepted a rocket over the city of Sderot, Haaretz reported. Residents of the city had seconds to find shelter before seeing a hearing an explosion and seeing a bright light in the sky. No injuries were reported. The rocket launch occurred as…
(JTA) – Three years after the slaying of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in what prosecutors say was a jihadist terrorist attack, the institution opened its first new exposition, whose theme is immigration. The new exhibition, which opened last month and is titled “Belgium, Welcoming Land,” was inaugurated following renovations during which…
At 3:05 p.m. in New York on October 31, eight passersby were mowed down on a bike path, allegedly by a lone-wolf terrorist claiming obedience to Islam. At that very moment on the other side of the world, Israelis were ushering in the 22nd anniversary, according to the Hebrew calendar, of the murder of Prime…
How can you truly measure the horror of a terror attack? You can’t. One life lost that way is one life too many. But not for Donald Trump. When a man murders eight people and injures almost a dozen others in Manhattan, and then shouts “God is great!” in Arabic, the president waited only hours…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The case of Joseph Jesner v. Arab Bank is a bid by about 6,000 Israelis who have been harmed by Palestinian terrorism to get redress from Jordan’s Arab Bank, which delivered money to the groups carrying out the acts. Yet when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case on Oct….
After two nights of country music, Jason Grumet was tuckered out. He and his wife of 14 years, Natalie Grumet, were in town with his mother and some friends and family to take in the three-day Route 91 Harvest festival and enjoy the neon-splashed fun of the Las Vegas Strip. Even though it was held…
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