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Like NJ Nets, European Jews get oligarch

BERLIN — Two Jewish billionaires who came to Berlin from Ukraine last week for a conference on European Jewish life skipped out on the gathering during a session on...

Steinsaltz completes translation of Talmud into Hebrew

SAN FRANCISCO — On Nov. 7, noted Talmud scholar and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz will formally conclude his Hebrew translation of the Babylonian Talmud, a monumental...

In New York gubernatorial race, Orthodox react to violence

NEW YORK — When the Republican candidate for New York governor, Carl Paladino, addressed an Orthodox crowd on Sunday, Oct. 10, about his opposition to pride parades and...

Bibi, ‘Nothing to hide’ — Israel joins UN inquiry on flotilla raid

NEW YORK — The decision by Israel to participate in the UN probe of the Turkish flotilla incident marks a stark departure from Jerusalem’s practice of opposing the...

Israel tries to lure Wall Street

NEW YORK — If Haim Shani has his way, the titans of Wall Street will start moving more of their business to Dizengoff Street. Shani, the director general of Israel’s...

Kyrgyz shul hit amid upheaval

MOSCOW — As the capital of Kyrgyzstan erupted in violence last week, members of the Central Asian nation’s small Jewish community held their breath and sat tight. The...

Israel’s response to Goldstone

NEW YORK — With Israel’s submission of its formal response to the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, the question now is: Did the response suffice? On Jan. 29, the...

In Haiti, Israeli field hospital delivers baby, saves lives

NEW YORK — The text messages started coming in to Shachar Zahavi’s cell phone in the middle of the night: “What are we going to do about Haiti?” Zahavi, chairman of...

Netanyahu forms a gov’t., takes office

JERUSALEM — The warnings from Israeli pundits and foreign observers alike came almost as soon as Israeli President Shimon Peres picked Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu to...

Jerusalem returns to secular hands

The victory by secular businessman Nir Barkat in Jerusalem’s mayoral elections was greeted with relief by Israelis concerned about the increasingly fervently Orthodox...