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Sunday Times apologizes for cartoon

JERUSALEM — The Sunday Times of London apologized for publishing an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies...

Anti-Israeli cartoon in London’s Times

LONDON — London’s Sunday Times published an editorial cartoon showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using...

UK students: 6.6 million matchsticks

LONDON — Students at a school in England are working to collect 6.6 million burnt matchsticks to remember the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The students at Chilton...

Israel’s Carmel forest rejuvenates after fire

By Brian Blum, JTA CARMEL FOREST, Israel —— The rabbi’’s yarmulke fluttered in the wind, his hand holding it to his head, as he recited E-l Malei Rachamim, the...

Weberman sentenced to 103 years for abuse

NEW YORK — Chasidic counselor Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexual abuse of a teenage female patient over several years. Weberman, 54, a...

European Union adopts January 27 as Holocaust Day

BRUSSELS — The European Union has incorporated International Holocaust Remembrance Day — January 27 —into its official calendar. “It is an honor for the institution...

Jewish groups brace for congressional cuts

NEW YORK — A pregnant Darfuri woman at a refugee camp in Chad, a Latino senior citizen living below the poverty line in the Bronx and an elderly Jewish immigrant...

‘Jew’ is the new ‘cool’ in Dutch, linguist says

THE HAGUE — Dutch teenagers are using “Jew” akin to “cool” or “awesome” in English, according to a linguist from Leiden University. Professor Marc van Oostendorp...

Leading Reform rabbi considering Senate run

WASHINGTON — Rabbi Jonah Pesner, an official of the Union for Reform Judaism, is considering a run for the open Massachusetts US Senate seat. Pesner, of Newton, Mass.,...

Don’t expand settlements, 700 rabbis, students tell Bibi

JERUSALEM — More than 700 letters from American rabbis and rabbinical students expressing concerns about settlement expansion were delivered to the office of Prime...