International
Assad: Israeli WMD must go
JTASep 23, 2013
JERUSALEM Syrian President Bashar Assad said Israel should be required to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons. If we want...
New Aussie prime minister friend of Israel
JTASep 12, 2013
SYDNEY Tony Abbott, a staunch supporter of Israel, was elected the countrys new prime minister of Australia last weekend. Abbotts conservative Liberal Party won a...
Is Hamas the loser in game of Middle East upheaval?
Sean Savage, JNSSep 09, 2013
IN the shifting sands of the tumultuous Middle East, Hamas, the Palestinian terror group in control of the Gaza Strip, has found itself in an increasingly precarious...
Cairo’s dwindling community proud and determined to stay
Ben Sales, JTAAug 22, 2013
TEL AVIV When Magda Haroun was out on the streets during the unrest now rocking Egypts capital, she saw someone standing over the body of a dead soldier. Not...
Erdogan: Chaos in Egypt Israel’s fault
JTAAug 22, 2013
ANKARA Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel was behind last months military coup in Egypt. Erdogan told a meeting of the provincial chairs of his...
Yom Kippur off: Cost, $13,000
JTAAug 15, 2013
JERUSALEM The Israel Tennis Association will have to pay more than $13,000 for refusing to play a Davis Cup match on Yom Kippur. The Israeli national tennis team had...
War criminal Laszlo Csatary dies before trial
JTAAug 15, 2013
Hungarian war criminal Laszlo Csatary has died while awaiting trial for torturing Jews and deporting thousands of them to their deaths during WW II. According to the...
Rabbi vs. rabbi in Poland
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 08, 2013
WARSAW A few weeks before Polands parliament voted last month on whether to overturn a ban on ritual slaughter, Rabbi Menachem Margolin was scheduled to meet the...
Al-Dura blood libel: Karsenty loses round
JTAAug 01, 2013
PARIS French Jewish politician Philippe Karsenty appealed to Frances Supreme Court to overturn his conviction for defamation in the al-Dura case. Karsenty, the...
Berlin hoteliers urged to refuse rooms to Holocaust denier
JTAJul 25, 2013
BERLIN Berlins hotel and restaurant association has warned members not to book a room for Holocaust denier David Irving during his planned visit to the German...
