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Libyan Jews fret over Jewish artifacts
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJul 27, 2017
TRIPOLI — Gina Waldman was forced to flee her native Libya in 1967 as anti-Jewish mobs took to the streets of Tripoli, burning down her father’s warehouse. Waldman,...
Israel dismantles metal detectors, cameras
Andrew Friedman, TPSJul 27, 2017
Israel Police dismantled metal detectors and security cameras at the entrances to the Temple Mount compound overnight between Monday, July 24 and Tuesday, July 25, less...
East Africa famine: Jews die of starvation
Ben Sales, JTAJul 27, 2017
NEW YORK — Uganda’s 2,000 Jews have long maintained a modest existence. They live in the east of the country in a hilly, rural area that lacks paved roads,...
10,000 attend funeral of murdered Jews
TPSJul 27, 2017
More than 10,000 Israelis, including government ministers and Members of Knesset, descended on the city of Modi’in for the joint funeral of Yosef, 70, Chaya, 46, and...
Unmarked graves, unmarked $100,000
Chris LeppekJul 20, 2017
Sarsour promises a Denver cemetery big bucks —maybe, maybe not One might think that combining the recently controversial Muslim activist Linda Sarsour with...
Labor, choosing Gabbay, gets a boost
Andrew Tobin, JTAJul 20, 2017
Likud still ahead in the polls, but it could be a different ball game JERUSALEM — After political newcomer Avi Gabbay’s surprise election to head the Labor Party,...
Want a tour of a Hamas tunnel?
JTAJul 20, 2017
By Renee Ghert-Zand TEL AVIV — Capt. Libby Weiss spent most of the summer of 2014 in a Hamas tunnel, and she wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else. Israel’s...
Israel: No Iran in southern Lebanon
JNSJul 20, 2017
By Yaakov Lappin Netanyahu tells Trump and Putin: Iran in southern Lebanon would cross a ‘red line’ With the help of its powerful allies, President Bashar Assad’s...
What’s the magic in the Israel-India relationship?
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 13, 2017
WASHINGTON — Barefoot walks on the beach, warm hugs, lots of mutual admiration, hesitant attempts to speak each other’s language. And giggles. The bromance between...
For the first time, Spain-born liberal rabbi ordained
JTAJul 13, 2017
LONDON — The main rabbinical seminary in Europe for Reform and Masorti Jews ordained the first ever Spain-born Progressive rabbi, the seminary’s spokesperson said....
