International
Jewish leaders pay tribute to Prince Philip
JTAMay 11, 2017
LONDON — Jewish leaders in Great Britain paid tribute to Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, who announced that he will retire from public engagements...
Le Pen scares French Jews
Adam Abrams, JNSApr 27, 2017
Jewish leaders inside and outside France expressed alarm after far-right populist Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the first round of the French presidential election...
Britain tells PA it will not apologize for the Balfour Declaration
JTAApr 27, 2017
LONDON — The British government has rejected a Palestinian request to apologize for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which in part led to the creation of Israel. The...
Nazis’ names will be removed from Dutch Holocaust monument
JTAApr 27, 2017
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — City officials from a Dutch municipality near The Hague said they would remove from its main monument for Jewish Holocaust victims the names of three...
Turning point in Syria?
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — Israel’s government and pundits are unabashedly pleased by the missile strike ordered by President Donald Trump last week on the Syrian airfield from...
Prince Charles recalls grandmother’s rescue of Jews
JTAApr 14, 2017
VIENNA — Charles, Prince of Wales, spoke with Holocaust survivors in Austria about his grandmother’s role in saving the lives of a Jewish family during the Shoah....
Ahmadinejad planning presidential run
JTAApr 14, 2017
NEW YORK — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad filed to run in Iran’s upcoming presidential election, defying the wishes of the country’s supreme leader that he not seek to return...
Wallenberg document fetches over $13,000 at auction
JTAApr 14, 2017
LOS ANGELES — A document signed by the late Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg that saved a Jewish woman from the Nazis sold at auction for more than $13,000. The...
Pakistan’s one and only official Jew
Special to the IJNApr 06, 2017
PASSOVER EDITION 5777 SECTION A PAGE 13 A man claiming to be Pakistan’s only Jew was granted permission to change his faith from Islam to Judaism on his Pakistani...
Thousands protest BDS at UN
Ben Sales, JTAApr 06, 2017
PASSOVER EDITION 5777SECTION A PAGE 12 NEW YORK — Thousands attended a conference opposing the BDS movement at the UN headquarters in New York. The conference on March...
