International
Like NJ Nets, European Jews get oligarch
Uriel Heilman, JTANov 04, 2010
BERLIN Two Jewish billionaires who came to Berlin from Ukraine last week for a conference on European Jewish life skipped out on the gathering during a session on...
Steinsaltz completes translation of Talmud into Hebrew
Uriel Heilman, JTANov 04, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO On Nov. 7, noted Talmud scholar and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz will formally conclude his Hebrew translation of the Babylonian Talmud, a monumental...
In France, Masorti struggles but succeeds in attracting younger Jews
Sue Fishkoff, JTASep 16, 2010
PARIS At 6 p.m. on a Friday, Rabbi Yeshaya Dalsace was in the kitchen making hummus. He had finished vacuuming the living room, where Shabbat services would soon...
Rumors sully Jewish response to moderate Muslims
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 02, 2010
WASHINGTON Eight imams bowed in prayer before a sculpture at Dachau vividly representing the Jewish dead of Europe. Its a picture worth a thousand words of...
Iranian Holocaust-denying website launched
JTAAug 12, 2010
JERUSALEM An Iranian website that uses cartoons to deny the Holocaust was launched by a nongovernmental cultural organization in the country. The HoloCartoon site...
New Zealand Jews to fight ban against kosher slaughter
JTAJul 15, 2010
By Dan Goldberg, JTA SYDNEY — Barring a last-minute policy reversal, Jewish leaders in New Zealand appear certain to launch legal action against the government over...
Flotilla calls attention to Shalit
JTAJul 01, 2010
NEW YORK Some 100 to 200 passengers in all, they came as members of a self-described True Freedom Flotilla intent on promoting a Middle East-related humanitarian...
Jewish-Muslim friendship bus brakes for peace
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJul 01, 2010
BESANCON, France On a hot afternoon in early June, an unusual looking bus is parked in the central square of this historic city in eastern France. Passers-by cast...
Israel is key to African development
JTAJun 24, 2010
By Larry Luxner, JTA MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — On a barren, 60-acre tract of land overlooking the Gulf of Guinea, bulldozer operators turn the earth while sweaty...
Kyrgyzstan Jews pitching in to help region
JTAJun 17, 2010
MOSCOW The Jewish community of Bishkek is helping to deliver humanitarian aid to the south of Kyrgyzstan for those who are caught up in the ethnic rioting taking...
