International
Jewish doctor detained in Abu Dhabi cleared
JTAMar 29, 2013
CAPE TOWN An Abu Dhabi judge dismissed charges against Cyril Karabus, a Jewish doctor who had been detained in the United Arab Emirates in connection with a...
First Greek premier to visit a synagogue in 101 years
Gavin Rabinowitz, JTAMar 29, 2013
THESSALONIKI, Greece Antonis Samaras stood in the pale morning light coming through the stained glass windows of the only Thessaloniki synagogue to survive WW II and...
Jews sing Francis’ praises
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAMar 21, 2013
ROME — When the white smoke rose last week at the Vatican, signaling to the world that the College of Cardinals had chosen a new pope, Catholics weren’t the...
Uncertain future for Venezuelan Jews
Gil Shefler, JTAMar 14, 2013
CARACAS The eyes of a dead man stare at visitors passing through immigration at Simon Bolivar International Airport. They follow drivers making the trek along the...
Toulouse killer ‘whitewashed’ in film
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 14, 2013
PARIS Four weeks before he murdered seven people in Toulouse, a cheerful Mohammed Merah was filmed laughing and showing off his skiing skills to friends at a popular...
France releases Dreyfus papers
JTAMar 14, 2013
PARIS — Frances Defense Ministry has posted online hundreds of documents from the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish soldier whose wrongful espionage conviction...
What’s next for Venezuela’s Jews after Chavez?
Uriel Heilman, JTAMar 07, 2013
CARACAS For more than a decade, Venezuelan Jews have been holding their breath, subject to the whims of a mercurial president who used his bully pulpit to intimidate,...
British Muslims convicted of terrorist plot against synagogue
JTAFeb 28, 2013
LONDON Three British Muslims were convicted of plotting to carry out al-Qaida-inspired terrorist attacks, including on Jewish targets. The Community Security Trust,...
JCRC legal fund to help Gross
JTAFeb 28, 2013
WASHINGTON The first contributions to a new legal defense fund for Jews seen as being held wrongfully because of their Jewishness will go to help Alan Gross, who is...
Fez, Morocco’s synagogue is restored
JTAFeb 21, 2013
FEZ, Morocco Some 200 people celebrated the restoration of a synagogue in the Moroccan city of Fez. The Feb. 13 ceremony marked the conclusion of a two-year project...