Maccabiah is more than sports
JTAJul 16, 2009
By Dina Kraft, JTA TEL AVIV — Singing Shalom Aleichem, the group of Maccabiah athletes usher in Shabbat together at a brightly lit hotel dining hall, their...
Sephardic culture goes mainstream
JTAJul 16, 2009
By Amy Klein, JTA HOBOKEN, NJ — Daniel Saks crazy black curls bounce on stage with him to the wiry, deafening sound of guitars, horns and drums as the front man...
Is this the last chance for Holocaust restitution?
JTAJul 02, 2009
PRAGUE Stuart Eizenstat, who led the US government delegation to the June 26-29 Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague, sat down with JTA for an interview on the...
People’s pain pursues Madoff in court
JTAJul 02, 2009
NEW YORK For Belle Faber, the sentencing of Bernard Madoff felt surreal. Television coverage of Mondays event was being projected on a screen in the conference room...
The German in ‘The Pianist’ honored
JTAJun 26, 2009
BERLIN — The German soldier whose acts of defiance in helping Jews, made famous in ”The Pianist,” was honored posthumously in Berlin. Wilhelm...
Iranian unrest prompts calls for US solidarity with protesters
JTAJun 18, 2009
WASHINGTON With unrest mounting in Iran over official claims of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads reelection, US Jewish organizational leaders were calling for more...
Newburgh mosque: We don’t preach hate
JTAMay 28, 2009
By Alex Weisler, JTA NEWBURGH, NY — Packed tightly on the west bank of the Hudson River 60 miles north of Manhattan, the hometown of the four men believed to...
Jewish woman is Arabic-language poet
JTAMay 28, 2009
BERLIN Using a pseudonym, a Jewish woman won an Arab poetry contest in Holland. Tuvit Shlomi, 28, who works at the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel...
So you think you’re a crypto-Jew? Expert answers FAQ about crypto-Jews
JTAMay 21, 2009
EL PASO Stanley Hordes is one of the foremost experts on the Crypto-Jews, with his recent book To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of […]
OU plans to meet the tuition crisis
JTAMay 21, 2009
WITH the encouragement and participation of a growing number of yeshivot and day schools across North America, the Orthodox Union is moving ahead with a two-pronged...
