Israel’s Jewish Agency on Wednesday expressed “deep concern” over anti-Semitic threats against American Jewish communities, calling for US authorities to find and punish those responsible. “I am deeply concerned by the wave of anti-Semitic attacks and threats that has been sweeping across the United States in recent days and weeks,” the agency’s chairman Nathan Sharansky … Read more
Vandals have broken and overturned more than 500 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, the latest in a spate of recent bomb threats and attacks against sites for Jews across the United States. Hundreds of headstones, some of them more than 100 years old, were cut in half, local media reported Sunday. A local … Read more
Somalia’s Parliament elected former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a dual US-Somali citizen, as the country’s new president Wednesday. Farmajo was declared victorious after incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dropped out of the contest following the second round of voting. Amid rising security concerns, the 328 members of Parliament met at an air force hangar … Read more