The celluloid chasid helps Hollywood get chasidim right
JTAAug 29, 2014
NEW YORK When it comes to chasidic characters in movies, film consultant Elli Meyer believes that the real deal trumps a random actor in costume. But that approach...
Prague chief rabbi retires for a literary career
JTAAug 29, 2014
PRAGUE When the novel Altschuls Method hit the shelves in Czech bookstores this March, it was hailed as a brilliant political and psychological thriller combining...
Mumbai Chabad house to reopen
JTAAug 28, 2014
MUMBAI The reconstructed Chabad house in Mumbai, which closed after a terror attack six years ago, is set to reopen. Nariman House, the six-story home of...
Anti-Semitic slurs on New Zealand billboards
JTAAug 21, 2014
SYDNEY Campaign billboards in New Zealand were defaced with anti-Semitic slurs about Prime Minister John Key, the son of a Jewish refugee from Europe. Ahead of the...
Camp Be’chol Lashon restores pride
JTAAug 21, 2014
PETALUMA, Calif. On a cool Sunday evening, Jewish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage one by one to perform poems they had composed on the theme of...
Germany: Jews quit interfaith council
JTAAug 14, 2014
BERLIN The Jewish community of Frankfurt dropped out of the German citys interfaith Council of Religions, saying it failed to condemn anti-Israel statements by...
Cochin synagogue in India to receive legal protection
JTAAug 07, 2014
NEW DELHI Officials sought protection for a historic synagogue in the city of Cochin in western India and a nearby Jewish cemetery following the synagogues partial...
30,000 people attend Max Steinberg funeral
JTAJul 31, 2014
JERUSALEM A crowd estimated at 30,000 attended the funeral for Max Steinberg, an American lone soldier killed in Gaza. The service for Steinberg, 24, a southern...
Bloomberg snubs FAA flight ban
JTAJul 31, 2014
WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration last week lifted its ban on flights to Israel after reviewing Israeli measures to keep flights safe from rockets....
Nuclear Iran far worse than ISIS
JTAJul 18, 2014
THE bloody sectarian warfare in Iraq and Syria and the swift takeover of wide swaths of territory by the Sunni fundamentalist ISIS now calling itself a caliphate...
