International
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...
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...
Economy crumbles, Venezuela’s Jews emigrate
Adam Abrams, JNSAug 24, 2017
As the political and economic situation in Venezuela becomes increasingly unstable, Jews are fleeing the South American nation, with many choosing to immigrate to...
13 dead, many injured, in Barcelona car ramming near kosher restaurant
JTAAug 17, 2017
BARCELONA — A van plowed through a crowd of people on its main shopping street, killing and injuring a number of people in Barcelona. The incident — which police...
World’s oldest man dies
JTAAug 17, 2017
JERUSALEM — Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor from Haifa who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest man in the world, has died, a month before his...
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...
