International
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,...
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,...
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....
Ivanka visits Warsaw Ghetto Heroes memorial
JTAJul 13, 2017
WARSAW — Ivanka Trump, the Jewish daughter of President Donald Trump, laid a wreath at the memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland a day after her father...
UNESCO to vote on whether Machpelah is Jewish
JNSJul 06, 2017
By Alex Traiman An upcoming vote by the United Nations cultural body UNESCO on whether to declare Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs as an endangered Palestinian heritage...
First visit to Israel by PM of India
JTAJul 06, 2017
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to Israel, calling his visit “historic.” Modi arrived in Israel on...
Israel’s response to mortar fire deemed ‘old policy’
JNSJun 29, 2017
By Adam Abrams JERUSALEM — Mortar shells fired from Syria into the Israeli Golan Heights Saturday, June 24, prompted the IDF to respond with a retaliatory strike in...
Trove of Nazi artifacts unearthed in Argentina
JTAJun 22, 2017
BUENOS AIRES — A cache of 75 original Nazi objects discovered earlier this month by the Argentine Federal Police has been evaluated as “unprecedented” and “the...
