WATCH: White supremacists march at Virginia U; World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113; Trump envoys to MidEast; Saving Curious George

2017. augusztus 12 21:06

 

WATCH: White supremacists march at Virginia U; World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113; Trump envoys to MidEast; Saving Curious George

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WATCH: Torch-wielding white supremacists march in Virginia University
Marchers beat counter-protesters in Charlottesville, chant ‘You will not replace us’ and ‘Jews will not replace us’ ahead of large Saturday far-right rally
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and AFP
Torch-wielding white supremacists march at the University of Virginia on August 11 2017 (Screen Capture/ YouTube)
Members of the Ku Klux Klan protest on July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chet Strange/Getty Images/AFP)
Virginia governor urges people to avoid far-right rally
By AFP
Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally Saturday, July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Secessionists push for South to break away from US again
By JAY REEVES
World’s oldest man, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, dies at 113
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
Yisrael Kristal, who last year marked his bar mitzvah 100 years late, passes away a month before his 114th birthday
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Seeing ‘opportunity’ to renew talks, Trump sends three envoys to region
With Temple Mount crisis resolved, Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Dina Powell are heading back to Mideast
By ERIC CORTELLESSA
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump's special envoys Jared Kushner (left) and Jason Greenblatt (second right) meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)
Israeli l forces at the scene of a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on August 12, 2017. One man was injured and the Palestinian assailant detained. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Man stabbed, lightly wounded in Jerusalem attack
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Police escort a group of religious Jews at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on July 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Temple Mount saw record number of Israeli visitors last month
By JTA
Security forces stand guard outside the Israeli Embassy in the residential Rabiyeh neighborhood of the Jordanian capital Amman on July 23, 2017. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
Jordan continues to block Israeli ambassador’s return
By AGENCIES and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Trump: N. Korea ‘will regret it fast’ if it acts against US and allies
Germany, Russia express concern over escalating rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang, call for cooler heads to prevail
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ERIC TALMADGE
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press on August 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster,New Jersey (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)
A PAC-3 surface-to-air missile is transported into Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces' Kaita base in Kaita town, Hiroshima prefecture on August 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / STR )
Japan deploys missile defense over North Korea threats
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) and Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (R) on August 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)
Xi urges Trump to avoid exacerbating N. Korea tensions
By YANAN WANG and OLIVIA HAMPTON
This combo of file photos shows an image (L) taken on April 15, 2017 of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on a balcony of the Grand People's Study House following a military parade in Pyongyang. The image on the right taken on July 19, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump speaking during the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in Washington, DC. (AFP/Saul Loeb and Ed Jones)
US, North Korea have reportedly had secret contacts for months
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
A new generation of Igbos in Nigeria is being raised with Judaism. (Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)
Messianic Jews to Nigerians: You’re not ‘real’ Jews
Religious group from Arizona claims DNA testing proves that Igbo tribe are not genetically Jewish, drawing ire
By MELANIE LIDMAN
Margret and H. A. Rey in Hamburg, Germany, May, 1973. (Ullstein bild/Getty Images via JTA)
How Curious George’s creators saved the beloved monkey from the Nazis
New documentary to detail daring escape of Jewish authors Margret and H. A. Rey, who fled Europe in 1940 on homemade bicycles carrying their unpublished manuscripts
By GABE FRIEDMAN
Esther Suissa
ADHD, LD and the IDF
ESTHER SUISSA At the end of the day, she’s the mother of a proud soldier who embodies Ben Gurion’s vision for Israel’s fighting force
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Sebastian Gorka and Jeffrey Lord on trial
ANDREW SILOW-CARROLLThe People’s Court for People Who Make Holocaust Comparisons is now in session
Jeremy Rosen
Embarrassed to be Israeli?
JEREMY ROSEN Despite those who hide their nationality or religion, but he feels greater optimism for the Jewish future than ever
Joshua Cohen, 27, sought by London police in connection with double murder in Golders Green. (Met police)
UK police launch manhunt for suspect in North London murders
Authorities seek Joshua Cohen, 27, in fatal stabbings of two women aged 66 and 33 in Golders Green home
In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo, whiskey is poured at the 'Milk and Honey' whiskey distillery in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel has been known as the land of milk and honey since Biblical times. But could it become known as the land of single malt whiskey? One appropriately named distillery is trying to turn Israel into a whiskey powerhouse. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
Israel, the land of milk and honey — and now whiskey?
The country’s first whiskey distillery is preparing to release Israel’s first single malt
Denis Shapovalov of Canada reacts after scoring a point against Adrian Mannarino of France in day eight of the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium on August 11, 2017 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP)
Israel-born teen Shapovalov wins again, into semis in Montreal
Following victory over Nadal, dream run continues for rising star, 18; Roger Federer also through in Rogers Cup
David Berkowitz, AKA Son of Sam. (Fair use)
‘Son of Sam’ serial killer says he expects to die in jail, be redeemed by God
David Berkowitz, 64, murdered six people and wounded seven others in a series of attacks in the New York City area in the 1970s
Shearith Israel in Manhattan. (CC BY-SA Gryffindor/Wikimedia Commons)
Court allows lawsuit over firing of synagogue staffer
Alana Shultz says she was let go after officials found out she was already pregnant at her wedding
Illustrative photo of a Muslim woman adjusting her hijab. (AP/M. Spencer Green, File)
Payout for US Muslim woman whose hijab was removed by police
Kirsty Powell to be awarded $85,000 for ‘deeply traumatizing’ incident which occurred before male officers and inmates
Narges Mousavi, an Iranian artist and daughter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, stands during her exhibition in 'House of Free Designers' art gallery in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
Iran opposition head’s daughter displays paintings
Artworks combine images symbolizing freedom with representations of bullets, gas masks and jail cell bars
Far-right anti-migrant ship ignores help from rescue activists
The C-Star says it is exposing ‘collaboration’ between privately funded rescue ships and people traffickers
By AFP
The C-Star, which has vowed to expose what it describes as "collaboration" between privately-funded rescue ships and people traffickers
Related article: Europe’s far-right Generation Identity, fighting immigration at sea
Health Ministry to probe hospitals that made women get rabbis’ OK for sterilization
Officials at Netanya and Bnei Brak institutions recorded telling women who sought tubal ligation to obtain permission from religious authorities
By JTA
Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
Stray dogs roam the Babi Yar monument on March 14, 2016 in Kiev, where Nazis and local collaborators murdered 30,000 Jews in 1941. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
Researchers find dozens of Jewish headstones at Babi Yar
At least 50 slabs from a local Jewish cemetery were thrown into ravines where more than 150,000 Jews perished during Holocaust
By JTA
At least 3 Palestinians said wounded in riots along Gaza border
One man reportedly in serious condition following clashes with Israels troops; Palestinian man wounded by gunfire in Israeli Arab town
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes following a demonstration against the blockade on the Gaza Strip, near the border fence east of Jabalia refugee camp on June 5, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
Related article: Gaza faces ‘increasingly dire situation,’ UN rights commissioner says
Iran accuses Trump of ‘bad faith’ on nuclear deal
US president ‘always wanted to kill the deal,’ Iranian FM tweets. ‘To avoid isolation, he’s trying to blame it on Iran’
By AFP
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a press conference with German Vice Chancellor and Sigmar Gabriel (Unseen) at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin on June 27, 2017. (John Macdougall/AFP)
Syria suicide blast kills 23 rebel fighters near Jordan border
Monitor says another 20 in critical condition after bomber detonates explosive belt at base used by opposition group
By AFP
Illustrative: Fighters from the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army), the foremost rebel group in Damascus province who are fiercely opposed to both the Syrian regime and the Islamic State group, hold a position in the rebel-held town of Douma on April 10, 2016. (AFP /Amer Almohibany)
Related article: US-backed Syrian fighters pressure IS in Raqqa
Death toll in Egypt train collision reaches 43
Another 122 injured in crash between two passenger trains near Alexandria in country’s deadliest rail accident in over a decade
By MOHAMMED WAGDY and MENNA ZAKI
Egyptian officials and emergency personnel remove the wreckage of a collision between two trains on August 11, 2017 near Khorshid station in Alexandria. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
Nobel laureates urge Saudi king to halt 14 executions
The youths were arrested for taking part protests in 2012; letter also accuses Riyadh of coercing confessions
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Saudi King Salman, right, and Defense Minister and then Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wave as they leave the hall after talks with the British prime minister, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 5, 2017 (Saudi Press Agency via AP, File)
A performance of 'This City' hosted by Beit Mazia. (Gaya Turtle)
From classrooms to theaters: Historic schools host arts, support culture in Jerusalem
ISRAEL TRAVELS Programs at the recently rejuvenated Beit Mazia and Alliance House seek to use art to keep young people in the Holy City
By AVIVA and SHMUEL BAR-AM
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