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Schindler museum opens at former Cracow factory

By Patti McCracken, JTA CRACOW, Poland — — In January, 1994, an American tourist stepped out of a taxi into a cold, drizzling rain and entered the Jarden Jewish...

Foreman gains respect even as he loses title to Cotto

By Marc Brodsky, JTA NEW YORK —— Yuri Foreman may have lost his first title defense, but the Orthodox Jewish boxer apparently gained plenty of respect on a balmy...

Turkish-Israeli ties reach a new low

By Yigal Schleifer, JTA ISTANBUL —— While Turkey and Israel have seen their once-close relationship deteriorate steadily for the past few years, the Israeli commando...

Nashville flood hits local Jews

By Kathy Carlson, JTA NASHVILLE —— Ruth Klar and Alicia Safdie knew they were lucky, safe and healthy amid the flood’s muddy wreckage. But the little things made...

Lost in time in world’s oldest city

JERICHO, West Bank — The only thing I really knew about Jericho before I went there a few weeks ago for the first time was that when the second intifada […]

Is British chief rabbi needed?

By Winston Pickett, JTA LONDON —— A new book that criticizes Britain’s chief rabbi is opening old wounds and sparking a new debate about whether the institution of...

Liberators gather, for last time?

By Melissa Apter, JTA WASHINGTON —— Walking along the dimly lit corridors of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the liberators peered at black-and-white photographs...

Focus on Britain’s election

By Winston Pickett, JTA LONDON With Britain’’s three-way race for prime minister entering the final lap, many Jews in Britain are wondering what Nick Clegg’s...

Iranian nuclear scientist wants asylum in Israel

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Iranian nuclear scientist has requested political asylum in Israel, an Israeli lawmaker said. Ayoub Kara, a Druze minister of the Likud Party,...

Goldstone forced to stay away from grandson?s Bar Mitzvah

By Moira Schneider, JTA CAPE TOWN —— Talk about shul politics. In the interest of avoiding a disruption of his grandson’s Bar Mitzvah, Judge Richard Goldstone,...