International
UN: Our workers took part in Oct. 7
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 31, 2024
Besides the US and EU, a growing number of countries have suspended funding to the main UN agency aiding Palestinians in the wake of allegations that a number of its...
Amalek — misquote at the International Court of Justice
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 25, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected claims that his comments invoking Amalek, an enemy people of the ancient Israelites, suggested genocidal intent in...
A lawyer’s analysis: The genocide charge
Special to the IJNJan 17, 2024
A legal analysis of Israel's defense against claims of genocide filed in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa, and of South Africa's case against...
Fighting the genocide charge
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 11, 2024
Israel has chosen to fight the genocide charge against it in the International Court of Justice.
More Schiele paintings returned
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAOct 12, 2023
For decades, the heirs of Viennese Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum have sought the restitution of his extensive art collection, which was pilfered by the Nazis.
Armenian-Azeri conflict casts shadow on rabbinical conference
JNSOct 05, 2023
A conference of European rabbis that will be held in Azerbaijan next month has sparked a divisive debate among European Jewish student groups and Azerbaijani Jewish...
Yom Kippur observed in Odessa amidst a war and kapparot
Steve LipmanSep 28, 2023
After[/dropcap] a relatively quiet Rosh Hashanah — in other words, only a few sirens blaring at night, and no Russian missiles falling on their city itself — the...
Bibi focus at UN: Saudis and Iran
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 27, 2023
Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to the UN on Sept. 22 to tout the prospect of a diplomatic agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, to warn of the threat posed by...
Pope Pius XII and Nazi camps
JTASep 21, 2023
A newly uncovered letter provides the strongest evidence yet that Pope Pius XII knew about the Nazi extermination of the Jews as it was happening
Zelensky meets Jewish leaders
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTASep 21, 2023
Volodymyr Zelensky met with 15 Jewish soldiers and 32 Chabad rabbis on Sept. 14, a day ahead of Rosh Hashanah, marking the Jewish president of Ukraine’s first official...
