JTA News Briefs: September 8, 2016
MIDDLE EAST Netanya mayor held in suspected multimillion-dollar bribery scandal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Netanya Mayor Miriam Feirberg is in police custody on suspicion of bribery,…
International
Hamas, natural gas and other good reasons Israel and Turkey should stick together
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Turkey ought to be friends, geopolitically speaking. As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put it in January: “Israel…
Citing their core beliefs, 40 Orthodox clergy condemn Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’
(JTA) — Forty American Orthodox clergy co-signed a letter condemning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for what they called his “hateful rhetoric and intolerant policy…
Rio pays tribute to 11 Israeli victims of ’72 Munich Olympic massacre
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, Brazilian senior officials joined sports activists from Israel and elsewhere at a…
From LA to Israel: One swimmer’s journey to the Rio Olympics
By Hillel Kuttler NETANYA, Israel (JTA) – Andrea Murez steps on the diving board, adjusts her goggles, swings her long arms and propels herself into…