Senate: Help Israel on Iran
JTAApr 26, 2013
WASHINGTON The Senate Foreign Relations Committee moderated language in a resolution that had called on President Obama to assist Israel should it strike Iran. The...
European rabbis honor Merkel
JTAApr 18, 2013
BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive a top award from Europes mainstream Orthodox rabbinic body. The Conference of European Rabbis announced this...
YU law journal honors Carter
JTAApr 18, 2013
NEW YORK Former President Jimmy Carter accepted an award from the Yeshiva University law schools journal, despite protests from pro-Israel supporters. On April 10,...
US-born terrorist sentenced; no remorse
JTAApr 11, 2013
JERUSALEM Yaakov (Jack) Teitel, a US-born Jewish terrorist, convicted of murdering two Palestinians, was sentenced to two life terms and 30 years in prison. Teitel,...
Website: ‘Blood of Christians’
JTAApr 11, 2013
JERUSALEM A Palestinian nonprofit organization removed an article from its website that accused Jews of using the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover and...
Jackie Robinson, #42, fought black anti-Semitism
JTAApr 11, 2013
By Ami Eden, JTA NEW YORK — Moviegoers who head this weekend to the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 for the opening of 42 will see the story of how […]
Pope and chief rabbi exchange greetings
JTAApr 04, 2013
ROME Pope Francis and Romes Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni exchanged greetings to mark Passover and Easter. The two holidays overlapped this year: Easter was last...
Obama quotes ‘Hatikvah’ in Passover message
JTAApr 04, 2013
WASHINGTON President Obama in his Passover message cited the Israeli national anthems invocation of an ancient Jewish longing for a homeland. Last week, I visited...
Chabad library to move to Moscow’s Jewish musuem
JTAApr 04, 2013
MOSCOW — Russia plans to move Jewish texts claimed by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to Moscows newly opened Jewish museum later this month. Russian Deputy Culture...
Canadians treated Nazis better than the refugees
JTAApr 04, 2013
YOM HASHOAH 5773/2013 VANCOUVER When Austrian and German Jews escaped Nazism by fleeing to Britain during the 1930s, the last thing they expected was to find...
