10,000 people at opening of Holocaust museum
JTAApr 23, 2009
By Jane Charney, JUF SKOKIE, Ill. — The opening of the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center marks the completion of a 10-year odyssey. First imagined...
Binghamton victim loved to help
JTAApr 10, 2009
WASHINGTON Roberta Bobbie King almost wasnt teaching English at the American Civic Association building in Binghamton, NY, on the Friday afternoon of April 3....
Israeli whiz kid is behind Google’s new ‘Orion’ searches
JTAApr 03, 2009
SYDNEY Pressed to find a name for his new technology enabling a more accurate Internet search, Israel native Ori Allon looked to Greek mythology and perhaps his...
‘Ecopreneurs’ see the green in green
JTAApr 03, 2009
NEW YORK Its easy being green when theres plenty of cash floating around. Environmental causes tend to be minimally controversial, and all kinds of businesses...
A Holocaust lesson for Muslim youth
JTAApr 03, 2009
BERLIN Onur looks intently at the photomontage. From all the famous news images, he picks one: New Yorks World Trade Center aflame. Did you know that the Jews...
Identity crisis: The making of British Islamic terrorists
JTAApr 03, 2009
BRADFORD, England Ishtiaq Ahmed, who works as a spokesman for the Bradford Council for Mosques, lives with three generations of his family in a luxurious British home...
In reversal, US to join UN rights council
JTAApr 02, 2009
NEW YORK (JTA) The US will seek to join the UN Human Rights Council, reversing its policy of shunning the group and prompting concern among some Jewish organizations....
German government increases payments
JTAMar 27, 2009
Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Eastern Europe who receive pensions from the Claims Conference will receive significant increases in their monthly pensions. The...
Russian circus goes ape at Jewish wedding
JTAMar 27, 2009
MOSCOW Its a most unusual wedding. A man dressed in Chasidic regalia speeds in a go-cart around Moscows one-ring Circus Nikulina. Aziz Askaryan then dismounts...
Anatevka in Venezuela
JTAMar 26, 2009
CARACAS The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sholem Aleichem has special significance for the Jewish community of Venezuela and not necessarily...
