International
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...
Anti-Jewish statements concern UK lawmaker
JTAFeb 21, 2013
LONDON Robert Halfon, a British lawmaker for the Liberal Democrat Party, has urged party leader Nick Clegg to condemn recent statements by party members about Jews....
New doubts cast on Holocaust ‘mascot’ survivor
JTAFeb 14, 2013
SYDNEY A war crimes investigator cast fresh doubts on the account of a purported Holocaust survivor who says he was a child mascot for Nazis. Efraim Zuroff, the...
Benedict’s papacy: a period of close Jewish relations with occasional bumps
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAFeb 14, 2013
ROME Pope Benedict XVIs eight-year reign as head of the worlds one billion Catholics sometimes was a bumpy one for the Vaticans relations with Israel and the...
EU leaders hesitant on Hezbollah
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 07, 2013
SOFIA In his many years of service for Frances spy agency, Claude Moniquet has seen much evidence linking Hezbollah to terrorist-related activities in Europe and...
Sunday Times apologizes for cartoon
JTAFeb 07, 2013
JERUSALEM The Sunday Times of London apologized for publishing an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies...
Twitter lawsuit emboldens activists
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 31, 2013
BRUSSELS Immediately after a French court ordered Twitter to reveal details about users who had posted anti-Semitic messages, a proud Sacha Reingewirtz was already...
Anti-Israeli cartoon in London’s Times
JTAJan 31, 2013
LONDON Londons Sunday Times published an editorial cartoon showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using...
