International
Kosher slaughter ban troubles Polish officials
JTAJul 25, 2013
WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reportedly has tasked a government minister with finding a way to keep ritual slaughter legal in Poland despite a ban that...
EU blacklists Hezbollah
JTAJul 25, 2013
THE HAGUE The effectiveness of the European Unions decision to blacklist only Hezbollahs military wing might be debatable, but one thing about the move seems...
Dermer next Israel ambassador to the US
JTAJul 04, 2013
JERUSALEM Ron Dermer, a former senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly will be Israels new ambassador to the US. The appointment by...
UK: Orthodox patrol plans to guard mosque
JTAJul 04, 2013
LONDON An Orthodox Jewish patrol group in London said it would protect a mosque after a rise in hate crimes against Muslims. The Shomrim patrol group accepted a...
Witness tells of North Korean camps
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJun 27, 2013
BRUSSELS When guards dragged Shin Dong-hyuk from his North Korean cell in 1995, he was pretty sure the end was near. Dong-hyuk, then just 13, was born in the...
Iran’s new president any different?
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 20, 2013
WASHINGTON Former national security adviser, former nuclear negotiator, a decades-old friendship with the supreme leader Hassan Rohani is as Iranian establishment...
UN’s Richard Falk: Shut down UN Watch
JTAJun 13, 2013
JERUSALEM — Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, called on the UN Human Rights Council to shut down the watchdog organization UN...
Imam’s visiting Poland to learn about Jews
JTAMay 30, 2013
WARSAW Imams from several Muslim countries and the US are visiting Poland to learn more about European Jewry. Thirteen imams from Indonesia, the PA, Saudi Arabia and...
London hacking: Jews respond
JTAMay 30, 2013
LONDON British Jews are no more at risk from terrorism than they were before the slaying of a British soldier by suspected terrorists, British Jewrys security unit...
Scottish church to alter report denying Jews’ claims to Israel
JTAMay 17, 2013
EDINBURGH The Church of Scotland will reword a controversial report which said scripture provides no basis for Jewish claims to Israel, the church said in...
