Israel elects a new president: Rivlin
JTAJun 12, 2014
JERUSALEM Reuven Rivlin of the Likud party was elected president of Israel in a campaign that was fraught with scandal. Rivlin was elected in the second round of...
Pope, Peres and Abbas in the Vatican
JTAJun 12, 2014
JERUSALEM PA President Mahmoud Abbas called for freedom in our sovereign and independent state during a prayer for peace with Israeli President Shimon Peres and...
US, Israel react to Fatah-Hamas unity government
JTAJun 06, 2014
US reacts The US plans to work with the new Palestinian unity government and will continue to disburse aid to the PA, the State Department said. State Department...
Roth no longer an enfant terrible
JTAMay 29, 2014
LOS ANGELES What is being done to silence this man? an American rabbi asked in a 1963 letter to the Anti-Defamation League. He was talking about the novelist...
Israel, China agree to innovate
JTAMay 22, 2014
TEL AVIV Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Israel with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong to announce a binational agreement to foster innovation. Netanyahu in a...
Holocaust Torah given to VCU
JTAMay 15, 2014
PHOENIX A non-Jewish couple from Arizona donated a 250-year-old Torah scroll recovered from the Nazis to Virginia Commonwealth University. The couple, Martin L....
1482 Torah fetches record bid at auction
JTAMay 08, 2014
PARIS A 15th-century book of the Torah sold for a record $3.87 million at an auction in Paris. Christies, which organized last weeks auction, listed the buyer as...
Interfaith memorial at KC JCC
JTAApr 24, 2014
NEW YORK Hundreds gathered at a suburban Kansas City JCC for an interfaith memorial service for the victims of shootings there and at a nearby Jewish retirement home....
Hungarian Jewish leader resigns
JTAApr 18, 2014
BUDAPEST Gusztav Zoltai, the director of Hungarys federation of Jewish communities, or Mazsihisz, resigned in what community leaders said was a protest against the...
From farm to table: Locally grown matzah on the rise
JTAApr 11, 2014
By Talia Lavin, JTA PASSOVER 5774 EDITION SECTION C PAGE 16 NEW YORK In their small farmhouse bakery in Vermont, Doug Freilich and Julie Sperling work round the clock...
