International
World’s oldest man celebrates Bar Mitzvah at 113
JTASep 22, 2016
JERUSALEM(JTA) — The world’s oldest man, 113-year-old Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor living in Israel, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. Kristal’s daughter,...
Controversial Jewish memorial at former Lviv synagogue opened
JTASep 15, 2016
MOSCOW (JTA) — The city of Lviv in western Ukraine inaugurated a controversial memorial monument on part of the former Golden Rose Synagogue complex. On Sunday, Sept....
Was Mahmoud Abbas a KGB spy?
Michael Zeff, TPSSep 15, 2016
JERUSALEM — Evidence has been unearthed that points to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas serving as an agent for the USSR during the 1980s. Isabella Ginor...
First-person account: Being Jewish in Belgium
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 01, 2016
AMSTERDAM — I used to think I had a pretty good understanding of what it means to be Jewish in Belgium. A longtime observer of that polarized binational country, whose...
Israel and Turkey reconciliation bodes well for both
Andrew Tobin, JTASep 01, 2016
JERUSALEM — Israel and Turkey ought to be friends, geopolitically speaking. As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put it in January: “Israel needs a country...
Russian documentary claims Titanic was Jewish conspiracy
JTASep 01, 2016
MOSCOW — A privately owned Russian television channel reran a documentary from 2012 that claimed the Titanic was sunk partly due to a conspiracy by Jews. REN-TV aired...
German-Israeli discovery could help cure melanoma
JTAAug 25, 2016
JERUSALEM — A new discovery by Israeli and German researchers could be the key to stop the spread of melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer. The scientists found...
Jewish Iraqi’s villa bulldozed
JTAAug 18, 2016
BAGHDAD — Iraqi intellectuals decried the demolition of a historical building in Baghdad that once housed a Jewish finance minister as a “catastrophe” against...
Poland’s president eulogizes the last survivor of Sobibor
JTAAug 18, 2016
WARSAW — In an unusual gesture, the president of Poland published a long statement eulogizing a Holocaust survivor who was among a handful of people to have escaped...
Final AMIA bombing victim identified
JTAAug 18, 2016
BUENOS AIRES — The only unidentified fatality of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center here has been named. Augusto Daniel Jesus was identified as the victim with...
