International
Canadian Jewish institutions ramp up security
JTAOct 30, 2014
MONTREAL Canadian Jewish institutions are stepping up security after the murder of two Canadian soldiers by homegrown pro-jihadist terrorists. While it is not clear...
‘Ordinary’ man saved 669 Jews
JTAOct 30, 2014
PRAGUE A 105-year-old man known as the British Oskar Schindler having saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis received the Czech Republics...
AP’s veteran Gaza reporter flees to Malaysia
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 19, 2014
WASHINGTON Ibrahim Barzak spent his childhood counting the days to weekends, when he would travel with his father to see friends in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Ashdod and...
Pointing fingers at the United Nations
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 02, 2014
NEW YORK In the end, there was much to talk about at the UN General Assembly but few genuine surprises. With an eye on the jihadist group ISIS, President […]
Firebomb thrown at Kiev’s oldest synagogue
JTAOct 02, 2014
KIEV Kievs oldest synagogue was the target of a firebomb that burst into flames outside the building last week. The firebombing at the Great Choral Synagogue on...
New Zealand: John Key wins
JTASep 29, 2014
SYDNEY John Key, the son of a Jewish refugee from Europe, won his third term as New Zealand prime minister. Key, whose mother Ruth Lazar escaped Europe on the...
ISIS? ‘Nuclear Iran 1,000 times worse’
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — Saying a nuclear Iran would be a thousand times greater threat to the world than ISIS, Israels ambassador to the US warned against including Iran...
Why does Qatar support Hamas?
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 18, 2014
WASHINGTON It was the first Persian Gulf state to establish ties with Israel, the first to welcome Israeli students and the only one to allow direct dialing to...
How Jewish reporters in Muslim lands hide their identity
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 12, 2014
WASHINGTON Dont bring it up. If it comes up, change the subject. If you cant change the subject, consider an outright denial. Those are some of the strategies...
Merkel: Fight anti-Semitism!
JTASep 11, 2014
BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany called for civic action to fight anti-Semitism following a wave of incidents this summer in her country. Merkel, speaking...
