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State Dept. will return Jewish treasures to Iraq
Josefin Dolsten, JTASep 14, 2017
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5778 SECTION A PAGE 9 NEW YORK — The US will return to Iraq next year a trove of Iraqi Jewish artifacts that lawmakers and Jewish groups have...
At Tufts, Hillel called ‘exploitative,’ ‘Zionist’
JTASep 14, 2017
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5778SECTION A PAGE 10 By Yvette Alt BOSTON — Tufts University’s Hillel is described as “an organization that supports a white supremacist...
Hundreds in Sighet retrace Wiesel’s path of deportation
JTASep 14, 2017
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5778SECTION D PAGE 16 SIGHET, Romania — More than 70 years after fascists took Elie Wiesel to the train station of this sleepy city in Romania,...
In Rotterdam, demonstrator chant about killing Jews
JTASep 07, 2017
AMSTERDAM — A Jewish umbrella group has filed a police complaint over demonstrators in Rotterdam shouting in Arabic about killing Jews. The Dutch Central Jewish Board...
Houston recovery will take years
Josefin Dolsten, JTASep 07, 2017
HOUSTON — The Jewish community in Houston has seen “devastating” damage from Hurricane Harvey and could take years to recover, a federation official said....
Jewish organizations decry DACA move
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 07, 2017
WASHINGTON — An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers attacked President Donald Trump’s decision to end an Obama-era program granting protections to illegal im-...
ADL, US mayors in joint plan to fight extremism
IJN StaffAug 31, 2017
The US Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the ADL have announced a joint plan to fight extremism and bigotry and to promote justice and equality in response to the...
Jewish groups aid mosques concerned about security
Ben Sales, JTAAug 31, 2017
NEW YORK — With anti-Islam hate crimes on the rise, Muslim leaders are working harder to secure their mosques and institutions. Some are turning to Jewish experts for...
Likud: Infiltrated by the opposition?
Andrew Tobin, JTAAug 31, 2017
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under investigation for corruption, has often claimed that his left-wing political enemies are out to get him....
Newspaper production opens a lens on flooded Houston
Ben Sales, JTAAug 31, 2017
HOUSTON — As Hurricane Harvey bore down on Houston on Aug. 25, Vicki Samuels Levy dashed over to the offices of the Houston Jewish Herald-Voice, took the proofs of...
