European Union adopts January 27 as Holocaust Day
JTAJan 24, 2013
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
JTAJan 17, 2013
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
JTAJan 17, 2013
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
JTAJan 17, 2013
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
JTAJan 10, 2013
JERUSALEM More than 700 letters from American rabbis and rabbinical students expressing concerns about settlement expansion were delivered to the office of Prime...
Vienna symphony hides Nazi past
JTAJan 10, 2013
VIENNA An Austrian lawmaker accused the Vienna Philharmonic of attempting to conceal the institutions sympathy for the countrys Nazi leadership during WW II....
Birthright celebrates Bar Mitzvah
JTAJan 10, 2013
JERUSALEM Some 3,000 young Jews from around the world celebrated Birthright Israels Bar Mitzvah year with a party in Jerusalem. You come from different countries;...
Bibi meets Abdullah over Syria
JTAJan 03, 2013
JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordans King Abdullah II in a secret meeting in Jordan talked about chemical weapons in Syrias civil war....
Avigdor Liberman formally charged with fraud
JTAJan 03, 2013
JERUSALEM Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman was formally charged with fraud and breach of trust. The indictment, which reportedly includes new and...
Times change: Berlin is tourist spot
JTADec 27, 2012
BERLIN It used to be that few Jews would consider Berlin, or even Germany at all, as a tourist destination. But that has changed as Berlin has become a […]
