$400 million gift for Ben Gurion University
JTAJun 30, 2016
JERUSALEM — A $400 million gift to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, earmarked in large part for water research, is believed to be the largest-ever bequest on behalf...
Sens. urge posthumous medal for Rabbi Heschel
JTAJun 23, 2016
WASHINGTON — A slate of 20 senators urged President Barack Obama to posthumously award Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the...
Obama threatens veto on missile defense aid
JTAJun 23, 2016
WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama’s veto threat, the US House of Representatives passed a $576 billion defense appropriations bill, including an allocation...
Myanmar’s lone synagogue once the focus of 2,500 Jews
JTAJun 16, 2016
YANGON — Myanmar’s only synagogue was recognized by a Yangon historical organization. The Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, installed a blue...
Sheitel shopping? Read reviews online
JTAJun 16, 2016
By Lisa Keys NEW YORK — First there was “Tinder for bras.” Now there’s a Yelp for sheitels, the wigs worn by many married Orthodox Jewish women. ShayTell may be...
NY Times editor: Goodbye Twitter
JTAJun 16, 2016
NEW YORK — A New York Times editor has left Twitter after receiving a large number of anti-Semitic tweets. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the newspaper,...
Conversion comes to Madagascar
JTAJun 09, 2016
By Deobrah Josefson Antananarivo, Madagascar — A nascent Jewish community was officially born in Madagascar last month when 121 men, women and children underwent...
First whiskey distillery in Israel
JTAJun 02, 2016
Katzrin, Israel — David Zibell is busy testing the alcohol level of the liquid flowing out of his outdoor copper still. Then, touching his head to ensure his kippah is...
Ukraine honors nationalist whose troops butchered Jews
JTAJun 02, 2016
KIEV — Amid a divisive debate in Ukraine on state honors for nationalists viewed as responsible for anti-Semitic pogroms, the country for the first time observed a...
Democrats: Wasserman Schultz to be ousted?
JTAJun 02, 2016
WASHINGTON — Feeling the heat over her clashes with Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is at the center of a debate among Democratic lawmakers over whether to...
