Hostility toward Jews subsides in Venezuela
JTADec 31, 2010
By Jasmina Keleman, JTA CARACAS — On a balmy tropical evening in early December, a few hundred families, mostly of Moroccan descent, gathered to inaugurate the first...
Synagogue and mosque: A little neighborliness — from 9/11 on — has gone a long way
JTADec 30, 2010
PHILADELPHIA The cars slowly turn onto the long driveway, their wheels occasionally crunching the adjacent ground frozen from the night before and speckled with a...
Military conversion passes first reading in Knesset
JTADec 23, 2010
JERUSALEM A bill that would validate conversions to Judaism through Israels military rabbinate passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset. The measure, sponsored...
British Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks to retire in 2013
JTADec 23, 2010
LONDON — British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks will retire in September, 2013. United Synagogue President Simon Hochhauser announced Dec. 13 that Sacks would be...
EU council rejects anti-shechitah amendment
JTADec 09, 2010
LONDON The European Union Council has rejected a controversial kosher meat labeling requirement as part of its new food information regulation.The latest draft, sent...
Shechitah ban partially reversed in New Zealand
JTADec 02, 2010
By Dan Goldberg, JTA SYDNEY — A controversial ban on kosher slaughter by New Zealands agriculture minister has been partially reversed amid allegations that his...
Kosher diva targets next generation of cooks
JTANov 26, 2010
SUSIE Fishbein (aka the Kosher Diva) has released her seventh cookbook, Kosher by Design Teens & 20-Somethings: Cooking for the Next Generation, aimed at the young...
Eight nights
JTANov 18, 2010
By Dasee Berkowitz, JTA NEW YORK — When I walked into our local K-mart the night after Labor Day, Christmas music beckoned shoppers to consume. Traditional...
Jewish Jack Bauer? Terrorist cop offers his memoirs
JTAOct 22, 2010
NEW YORK In the 25 years that Mordecai Dzikansky worked as a homicide detective and intelligence officer for the New York Police Department, he risked his life every...
West Bank rabbis visit defaced mosque
JTAOct 14, 2010
JERUSALEM Rabbis from West Bank settlements visiting a vandalized mosque brought Korans to replace burned holy books. Peace activist Rabbi Menachem Froman of Tekoa...
