Israeli Labor cuts ties with UK Labour
JTAApr 12, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Labor Party has temporarily suspended “all formal relations” with its British party counterpart because of leader Jeremy Corbyn’s failure...
Jews have ‘moral obligation’ to end Syrian genocide
JTAApr 12, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi said Jews have a “moral obligation” to end the “cruel genocide” taking place in Syria. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was...
Amud Aish museum focuses on Jews and faith during the Holocaust
JTAApr 05, 2018
By Jon Kalish NEW YORK — Like Holocaust museums the world over, the Amud Aish Memorial Museum in Brooklyn focuses on European Jewish communities that thrived before...
Ethiopians waiting to emigrate hold seder
JTAApr 05, 2018
JERUSALEM — Many of the at least 8,000 Ethiopians awaiting Israeli government approval to move to the Jewish state attended a Passover seder in Gondar or Addis Ababa...
What happens when your flight is canceled on erev Pesach
JTAApr 05, 2018
By Ben Sales and Josefin Dolsten The ancient Israelites had to cross the Red Sea. Four thousand years later, Jeannie R. Fisher had to get her family of five from New...
Barbie immortalizes fashion guru Apfel
JTAMar 22, 2018
Mattel toys has announced a new Barbie doll honoring Iris Apfel, the 96-year-old Jewish fashion guru. The Apfel doll wears the same green Gucci suit and jewels that the...
Anti-Jewish wave in 1968 Poland comes to fore
JTAMar 15, 2018
WARSAW — Poland’s president asked for forgiveness for an anti-Jewish wave that drove Jews from the country in March, 1968, but said today’s Poland is not...
How ‘Never Again’ became the rallying cry for gun control
JTAMar 15, 2018
By Emily Burack NEW YORK — After a gunman took the lives of 17 students and staff at their high school in Parkland, Fla., students there launched a national campaign...
Aly Raisman sues US Olympic committee
JTAMar 08, 2018
LOS ANGELES — Aly Raisman sued the US Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics alleging negligence for not stopping former US Olympics gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar...
YU basketball in NCAA contest
JTAMar 01, 2018
NEW YORK — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team has earned its first berth in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament. On Feb. 25, the Maccabees defeated...
