Twitter sued for $50 million
JTAMar 31, 2013
PARIS The Union of Jewish French Students sued Twitter for about $50 million for failing to honor a court ruling to identify users who posted anti-Semitic hate...
Winemaker answers to a higher authority
JTAMar 29, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION B PAGE 15 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. Producing wine atop a tranquil mountain in a remote area of northern California is quite a way to make a...
Jewish doctor detained in Abu Dhabi cleared
JTAMar 29, 2013
CAPE TOWN An Abu Dhabi judge dismissed charges against Cyril Karabus, a Jewish doctor who had been detained in the United Arab Emirates in connection with a...
Klein named to lead Reconstructionists
JTAMar 21, 2013
NEW ORLEANS The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association has elected a homosexual rabbi to lead the national rabbinic organization. Rabbi Jason Klein, the executive...
France releases Dreyfus papers
JTAMar 14, 2013
PARIS — Frances Defense Ministry has posted online hundreds of documents from the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish soldier whose wrongful espionage conviction...
Ethiopian-Israeli wins Miss Israel pageant
JTAMar 07, 2013
JERUSALEM Yityish Aynaw, a former Israeli army officer, became the first Ethiopian-Israeli to win the Miss Israel pageant. A panel of judges awarded the title to...
British Muslims convicted of terrorist plot against synagogue
JTAFeb 28, 2013
LONDON Three British Muslims were convicted of plotting to carry out al-Qaida-inspired terrorist attacks, including on Jewish targets. The Community Security Trust,...
JCRC legal fund to help Gross
JTAFeb 28, 2013
WASHINGTON The first contributions to a new legal defense fund for Jews seen as being held wrongfully because of their Jewishness will go to help Alan Gross, who is...
ADL backs off opposition to FEMA
JTAFeb 28, 2013
WASHINGTON The ADL announced last week that it would not oppose federal assistance to houses of worship damaged in superstorm Sandy. Legislation authorizing such...
Fez, Morocco’s synagogue is restored
JTAFeb 21, 2013
FEZ, Morocco Some 200 people celebrated the restoration of a synagogue in the Moroccan city of Fez. The Feb. 13 ceremony marked the conclusion of a two-year project...
