International
At UN, Abbas, Netanyahu, Trump all have takes on peace
JTAOct 04, 2018
NEW YORK — PA President Mahmoud Abbas, in an address to the UN, rejected criticism of the PA for paying monthly salaries to Palestinians who kill Israelis or the...
Thousands of British Jews rally against anti-Semitism
JTASep 27, 2018
LONDON — More than 2,500 people demonstrated last week in Manchester, England, in a display of Jewish unity against increasing anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom and...
Warsaw phonebook from ’39 aids in restitution
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 13, 2018
WARSAW — In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived WW II, Yoram Sztykgold looks around with a perplexed expression. An 82-year-old...
Deadly crime puts light on Mainz
JNSSep 13, 2018
By Orit Arfa MAINZ, Germany — In recent months, the Rhine city of Mainz captured worldwide headlines for the murder and rape of one of its Jewish members, 14-year-old...
UK Jews judge Corbyn by ‘the company he keeps’
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 23, 2018
JERUSALEM — British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn met with the leader-in-exile of a Palestinian terror group in 2014 weeks before its members carried out an attack...
Nazi deported to Germany
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 23, 2018
BERLIN — A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp was deported to Germany this week from the US, where he had lived for decades. Jakiw Palij, 95, had lived in...
The other mountain Jews — of Azerbaijan
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 16, 2018
BAKU, Azerbaijan — About one year after Bella Regimov’s two children left their native country in the early 2000s for Israel, she became socially isolated. On her...
Imran Khan promises new Pakistan
Charles Dunst, JTAAug 09, 2018
NEW YORK — The election of former cricket star Imran Khan as Pakistan’s new prime minister has raised eyebrows across the globe. He has promised a “new...
Polish-Jewish rescue effort saved 330 Jews from the Nazis
JTAAug 09, 2018
WARSAW — Poland has obtained a WW II-era archive that documents efforts by Polish diplomats to get Jews out of Europe by issuing fake passports from Latin American...
Naidoo, a harsh critic of the Palestinians, is now BDS ‘cover girl’
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 02, 2018
JOHANNESBURG — It’s been a dizzying few weeks for South African model and actress Shashi Naidoo, who transformed herself from a harsh critic of the Palestinians to...
