Features
Venezuelan Jews ponder their exile
Gil Shefler, JTAMar 29, 2013
SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. Sitting outside a Starbucks coffee shop in this small city north of Miami Beach, Paul Hariton recalls the dramatic night in 2002 when he and...
Following the ancient Egyptian signs to the Red Sea
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAMar 25, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 10 LOS ANGELES If the Passover Haggadah seems like hieroglyphics to you, it could be a good thing. Though the Israelites left Egypt...
How Meir Panim helps the poor on Pesach
IJN StaffMar 21, 2013
By Shlomo Stephens PASSOVER EDITION SECTION B PAGE 4 WHILE the ancient Israelites were miraculously able to rid themselves of back-breaking bondage and enter the...
‘Second exodus’ from Egypt is recalled
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 21, 2013
Current turmoil in Egypt spurs memories of 1956 when 75,000-100,000 Jews fled JERUSALEM Frolicking with her fiancé in the cool waters of the Suez Canal, Lilian Abada...
Vienna university offers rare melting pot for European Jews
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 21, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION B PAGE 9 VIENNA With more than 250 students living, studying or partying on its campus, quiet moments are rare at the Lauder Business School....
Were these train cars used in the Holocaust?
Gavin Rabinowitz, JTAMar 14, 2013
THESSALONIKI, Greece It was spring in northern Greece, 1943. Efthymios Kontopoulos, 13, had come to Thessaloniki for the day when he saw Nazis rounding up the citys...
Von Furstenberg: Holocaust museum supporter
Chavie Lieber, JTAMar 07, 2013
NEW YORK Diane von Furstenberg takes a seat at her long, farm table-inspired desk inside her office on the fifth floor in this citys Meatpacking District. The...
A family reconnects, from Denver to Brooklyn
Hillel Kuttler, JTAFeb 21, 2013
BALTIMORE It pained Don Jacobson to consider the relatives hes never met, whose names he didnt know and the family celebrations they could have been sharing all...
New textbook study ignites debate
Ron Kampeas, JTAFeb 07, 2013
WASHINGTON An in-depth comparative study of Palestinian and Israeli school textbooks is offering some conclusions that already are making some Israeli government...
Italy still years from opening first Holocaust museum
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAJan 24, 2013
ROME If all goes according to plan, a starkly modern, $30 million Holocaust museum will soon rise on the site of fascist dictator Benito Mussolinis Rome residence....
